Q What’s your opinion on timber frame construction for a home compared with traditional stick-built designs? A “Stick-built” refers to the studs, joists and trusses that are used to build typical ...

In Colonial times, they did it the old-fashioned way. They built houses with massive skeletons of wooden beams–and no nails. This type of construction–called timber framing–was an import from the Old ...

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Text description provided by the architects. A young family decided to settle in a rural area outside of London, and to start their building project around the walls of an old cow shed. Interested in ...

Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

Heading up Frank and Brenda Baker's driveway in Blissfield, Mich., the first thing you notice about their bungalow-styled house is the timber truss supporting the front porch. With its weathered wood ...

Jorge Morley-Smith and Carin Söderberg loved their 1970s townhouse in Sevenoaks, Kent, but the style of the three-storey house meant the ground floor was devoted to a garage and carport space, with ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NORTH BEND, Wash. – Extensive timber frame expertise was not a prerequisite when Daucey and Pat ...

Timber Frame has been a feature of home building and construction since the earliest recorded times. Today timber frame construction in Ireland is one of the fastest and most economical ways of ...

Alfredo Rico was a statistician at the United Nations' Manhattan headquarters in 1979 when he realized number-crunching and politics were not for him. He left the UN's modern complex at First Avenue ...

I have a farm with lots of woods, and I would like to use my own trees for my timber frame. Is this possible? Possible? Absolutely. If you have enough trees of the right size, species and quality ...