All you need to know about building a timber frame home - Why self-build housing is a solid, stylish, future-proof choice. By ...

Back in the day, John Sweet Jr. was an ironworker who helped build paper mills. But in 1982 he made a big career shift into a much more ancient craft: timber framing. That was in 1982, and he’s ...

Smells of brewed coffee and wood dust filled the air on the Sunday afternoon, June 1, of a long-anticipated, once-delayed ...

But timber framing generally costs more than stick framing, with prices ranging from $150 to $325 per square foot — or at least $375,000 for a 2500-sq.-ft. house.

Outside and in, the house is a modern-day showcase for timber framing. It's a building tradition that is more than 2,000 years old and found with much regional variation throughout Europe and much ...

Timber-frame structures can be finished off in numerous ways, just like a modern stick-built house–among them, plywood, clapboard, board & batten, shingles, or even stucco.

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 ...

In 1989, my father-in-law taught me to smoke meats and cheeses. I was a timber frame builder—I have my own company, called OakBridge Timber Framing—and I wanted a home project to help me ...