But in 1982 he made a big career shift into a much more ancient craft: timber framing. That was in 1982, ... but you just can’t call up and get big specialty timbers in a two-week time frame.” ...

On the East Coast, many 200- and 300-year-old timber frame houses are still standing, but in the rest of the country, which was largely settled after 1850, old timber-frame houses, including the ...

If you are comparing lumberyard framing materials at $1/bf to local sawmill timbers at $0.75/bf, it’s cheaper to do timber framing. Buying timbers from across the country, however, would end up ...

If you are comparing lumberyard framing materials at $1/bf to local sawmill timbers at $0.75/bf, it’s cheaper to do timber framing. Buying timbers from across the country, however, would end up ...

The type of timber chosen has a big impact on the overall look and feel of the space; with options including oak, Douglas fir, cedar, and glulam beams, which can come in a variety of different ...

Until about 1850, most houses in the United States were built using some variation of the New England or southern style of timber framing. But as sawmills began to produce smaller sawn timbers and ...

Timber frame and post and beam construction are both beautiful methods of constructing a house. ... connectors can be seen where the beams join. The house was designed and built by HUF HAUS.

MONROE — Trees the Snohomish County parks department cut down for safety or forest health have found new life as picnic shelters and a stage at Lake Roesiger, Whitehorse and Kayak Point county ...

Timbersmith Inc., a custom timber framing company based in Monroe County, has grown over the past two decades into a builder combining Old World techniques with new technologies.Back in 1978, John ...

As a young carpenter apprentice in Switzerland, Simon Gnehm fell in love with timber framing. It wasn’t just the outdoor work and smell of sap and sawdust that appealed to him. In those days ...