Privately held ProCure Treatment Centers in Bloomington, Ind., started in 2005 by physicist John Cameron and Goldman Sachs veteran Hadley Ford, is developing and financing many of the beam rooms.
Sitting in the bright oak post-and-beam room built by her husband, Richard Osnoss, a carpenter, Ms. Buhrman explained that she tries to eat only food raised on Martha's Vineyard and to go down island to the grocery store in Vineyard Haven as little as possible.
The beamed room, added in 1964, is big enough to accommodate 8 to 10 large round tables.
Exposed-beam rooms are cozy, not grand, and the subterranean gourmet restaurant gives you an excellent, street-level view of strangers' feet.
At Aquarius, cow hide rugs cover exposed beams, rooms have red leather chaise longues, flatscreen TVs, free standing oval baths, designer radiators and abstract art.
Douar Samra was simply the cosiest hideaway I'd ever seen: beamed rooms, each with its own fireplace, and brightly coloured Berber furniture.
Todd Rosenthal's enticing design for August: Osage County frames the dire action of a family reunion in a cute Oklahoma homestead that looks like a child's drawing: steep gables, white beams, rooms made for eavesdropping.
The pub is a series of interconnecting, beamed rooms, the one at the back with a piano; the walls throughout are decorated with memorabilia, much of it from the second world war; the toilets are outside lean-tos; and there is a lovely garden which often plays host to passing Morris Men.
And each classroom has infrared audio enhancers that beam the room's sounds to wireless headsets for the hearing-impaired.
GaSb single-crystal wafers with (100) orientation were irradiated with a 30 keV focused Ga+ ion beam at room temperature.
