They started in the swimming pool and ended up with a simple site-built steam box, but along the way builder George Hubbard, of Hubbard Construction, in Williston, Vt., and job foreman Bob Blodgett learned how to bend wood efficiently right on the site. The 4-foot-radius curved balconies — two of them — came about as an afterthought, though you'd never know it to look at them. "The plan didn't originally call for a porch on the front of the house, but the best views were in that direction," said Hubbard. "So we built the balconies to give access to a second-story porch above the front portico." Though the frame-and-panel finish treatment was familiar, this was the first time
