Norskog
“Pink Floyd’s lyric “all I touch and all I see is all my life will ever be” pretty much describes the scope of our plans to build 2 guest houses, and a hog pen, in the back of our lake house on Flathead lake. People’s homes are a reflection of their life experience, a mosaic of tangible and intangible things they’ve collected along the way; things that have become a part of who they are. Needless to say, after 30 years of living in 6 states and 7 countries, we came home to Montana much changed by our experiences. Finding a builder practically anywhere in the United States with the knowledge and experience to help us “fuse” all of these influences into our final design would have been nearly impossible; but lucky for us we found world class builder Ron Incoronato living right here in Montana to help us realize our ambitious plans.
Ron Incoronato, has traveled the world extensively and always it seems with an eye cast upward at the design and building techniques of structures; living with his family in Taiwan and Japan where he taught building design and construction techniques for many years he now lives in Bigfork Montana and is recognized as a true master in the building of exclusive high end custom homes.
I recall our first conversation, not only did Ron know how to design an Asian style “swooped roof” but he understood its purpose was to mimic nature like the wings of a bird so that it would be harmonious with its surroundings. During this first meeting he sketched the outline of 3 buildings preserving every tree on the property as we chatted about the look and feel we hoped to achieve and the functions we wanted to serve. During construction, we often saw him teaching and helping many of his expert tradesmen learn the new techniques that this unusual design required. Ron’s unique 30 years of experience, and creativity guided us and helped us with the thousands of choices we made along the way to completing the construction and landscaping of our two guest houses; “The Bear’s Den” and “The Bird’s Nest” and “The Hog Pen”. We were often traveling in Asia but we never worried about our project because Ron had such a good sense of what we wanted to achieve we often just relied on his judgment and left many decisions to him.”
— Jerry Norskog