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The Experience of Living in Timber Frame Homes

Living in Timber Frame Homes

“I’ve never been in a timber frame home”

Joe Pinciotti’s words stopped me in my tracks. Hired by the Timber Framers Guild to convey what timber framing is about, Joe was trying to get up to speed on timber framing quickly. Despite knowing that timber framing represents a fraction of one percent of all construction, it had never occurred to me that most people have never actually been in timber frame homes. So this is my attempt to convey that feeling using quotes and observations I’ve jotted down over the years.

Timber Frame Home

“The primary interest in timber framing is the aesthetics and the experience of living in the structures.”

—Jeff Arvin

Living in a timber frame home

Know the one thing almost everyone does upon entering a timber frame home?

NC timber frame home

Timber framing is an architectural solution to a structural problem.

timber frame construction

You can sense the appeal: simple lines, clear proportions, exposed construction.

timber frame home reclaimed beams

Wood is an aesthetic material. There’s a warm environment in these buildings.

A take on the Modern Farmhouse with reclaimed hand hewn beams

It doesn’t have to be rustic.

twisted reclaimed beam

“True Authenticity is a lack of perfection”.

—Architect Gil Schafer

timber frame home design winner

Built Poetry.

While watching architect Caleb Johnson of Biddeford, Maine discuss the winner of the 2015 Best New Home award, we were struck by his profound insights into the benefits of timber framing and why we were drawn to, and love timber framing.

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timber frame scissor trusses

“The whole structure can be understood as one thing, all the heavy timbers giving a clear integrity and visual coherence to it”.

—Architect Sarah Susanka, author of The Not So Big House

Timber Frame Sustainability

Wood is part of the solution to climate change.

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reclaimed antique heart pine

Ever notice that man-made materials look best the day they’re installed (and go downhill thereafter), while natural materials get better and better looking with every passing year?

New Jersey Timber Frame Barn

“Buildings are a permanent record of ourselves—an effort to do something remarkable.”

—Tedd Benson, author & founder of a timber frame company

virginia timber frame pavilion

“Open pavilions are among the most compelling timber frames. There is no siding or interior portions to disrupt the concept’s pure architecture, engineering and craft at work”.

—Ben Brungrabber, Ph.D., P.E. Fire Tower Engineered Timber

timber frame houses master craftsman

Broadly, timber framing is everything that today’s sleek, mass-produced, technology saturated culture isn’t.

reclaimed beams in bedroom

“I sometimes dream in timber frame.”

—James Lung

modern timber frame porch

We build some of the world’s best timber frames.

And we’re nice.

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