As featured in KC Home Design Architect: Bickford & Company Builder: Riffe Homes Engineer: Apex Engineers, Inc. Location: Lee's Summit, MO                                                                As featured in KC Home Design magazine, much of the lumber used to construct this Lee’s Summit home was rough timber from a forest fire. In addition, the home features an especially open design as well as a floating staircase. Due to the many unique features, nearly every aspect of the house required special structural design. For example, Apex designed a two-channel configuration with 1-inch diameter bolts and washers to support the floating staircase – every piece of steel for this staircase had to be specially fabricated!                                                                             Back to Residential Single-Family Back to Projects