The outdoors are home for Chris and Marty McCurry. A gentleman's retreat is lined with poplar bark shingles in this Blowing Rock, North Carolina home. living inside this snug all-bark house I "got" it -the McCurrys' passion for poplar bark not just as a superior building material but as a way to bring the forest into the city and right into the home, to meld the ancient look and feel of tree bark with the convenience of today's technology. More