Living With Nature in a North Carolina Timber Frame Home
Bill and Kathy Nolen found their ideal vacation timber frame house exactly where they expected, in the verdant Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. What surprised them was that instead of the...
View ArticleA Platinum LEED-Certified Post and Beam Home
Bob Burnside doesn’t cut corners, a fact that can be either incredibly helpful or impossibly annoying to a homebuilder. No matter. Bob refers to his building style as MBWA, or Management By Walking...
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Everyone has his or her own needs when designing a house. But when Ed and Deb Dick designed and built their timber-frame barn home in northwest Ohio, their needs were more specific than most. Deb has...
View ArticleSmall, Green & Affordable: A Well-Designed Timber Home in Colorado
Mat and Jessica Robbins’ home is the embodiment of the principles of the “Not So Big House.” Although their Durango, Colorado, home is not tiny, it was downsized, and they used the savings to add...
View ArticleCompact Hybrid Timber Frame Home Design + Photos
Dean Hodgson had been living “on acreage” for years, enjoying the privacy of life in the country, but a new building lot in British Columbia’s Eagle Mountain development was just too good to pass up....
View ArticleAll-Natural Timber Home in Washington State
With peek-a-boo views of the Cascade Mountains, mature evergreen trees, and the picturesque Sultan River running through the land, Russ and Jessica Peterson instantly knew they had found the perfect...
View ArticleOutside In: A North Carolina Timber Home
If you want to know what makes Wanda and Lyle Hinshaw’s 5,000-square-foot North Carolina home so special, make a beeline for their kitchen. That’s what most visitors do. “It’s the fireplace that draws...
View ArticleOutward Expansion: A Small Home That Lives Large
Nearing retirement age, Randy and Cathy Clement began dreaming of building a small Craftsman-style timber-frame home somewhere in the mountains where they could spend leisurely days golfing, mountain...
View ArticleSmall Wonder: A Timber Home Built for Two
Every time Carl Stoesz walks through the front door of his home in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he feels like he’s won the lottery. “This place makes me feel like a millionaire,” he says of...
View ArticleColorado Craftsman: Classic Timber Home
If there’s one thing that timber-home enthusiasts have in common, it’s their dedication to the “dream home” ideal. And with that dedication typically comes months — if not years — of planning their...
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