DESCRIPTION

The Millennium home sits on 5.73 acres and designed by architect Gerry Cowart. Mr. Cowart describes the home as “fitting in with the environment. It fits the contours of the long lot and is choreographed to flow like the events in a river. One area rapids, the next waterfalls with surprising coves along the way. Linear pearls strung together, long and sleek, bending like the turns of a river. The home is only one room deep throughout and has a very handsome elevation. “ The home was built on a property with over 550 feet of marsh front. The couple wanted to bring in many local artists and have their personalities permanently part of the home. When you arrive, you will notice tabby outlining the driveway. “The Tabby Man” artist Herbert L. Taylor has been perfecting his talents for over ten years. His work is displayed in the outside planters, the home’s retaining walls, the support columns for the carport and the huge fireplace inside the kitchen. The fireplace took 3 months to build by hand packing the tabby – a special composition of broken oyster shells, sand, cement, and other secret ingredients known only to the Tabby Man himself. The builder, Bill Mischler, confided he had to buy 5 additional timber acres to find trees large enough to mill. In order to be compliant with the HRB, the carport needed to be positioned a certain distance from an oak tree’s root system, in which the overhead beams had to be stretched longer. Stronger wood was required for the added support and with the extra lumber in hand, cypress became the chosen siding. The rafters and cypress siding around the front porch set the hierarchy for the interior. The ingenuity, talent, magnificent attention to detail, and quality of craftsmanship such as hand cut eaves to allow ventilation under the home’s expansive copper roof is just one example. John Boyd Smith, an ornamental blacksmith in Savannah, created the custom railing on the front porch. They were custom crafted newels in the trunk of a palm to match the front door. Smith also crafted the fireplace screens and utensils as well as the light sconces. As you meander down the hallways, a quiet curiosity builds in anticipation for what may lie under the next bend. One treasure tucked like a tiny tributary just off the kitchen is the guest powder room. Jerry Taylor crafted the burl redwood slab with a Kohler glacier glass sink to appear as floating. It is a true work of art and conversation piece with a museum like quality. Other bathrooms share in this uniqueness with each tile autographed by the artist. This pearl of a home is breathtaking at every curve an angle. The talented artist, builder, and architect have made an island paradise to be enjoyed with every season on Spring Island.