Scissor Truss Designs
Beautiful, interesting and often requested by our clients, the scissor truss is a complex and dynamic truss design. While definitely evoking a specific look and style, from an engineering standpoint, the Scissor Truss is not the most efficient truss style, unlike the most efficient King Post truss. So the Scissor […]
Constructing A Dining Hall With New & Reclaimed Timber
Sunny 95 is a dining hall in Arlington, OH. The timber frame for this project was constructed using new timber and reclaimed timber. The new portion of the frame was handcrafted in our shop. We worked with R. W. Setterlin & the Timber Framer’s Guild on this project. Timber Frame Raising The picture […]
Autumn & Public Timber Frames in VT
Listening to the weather forecast this morning, snow flurries? Really? Yes, AND since Killington Mountain is already open for the fabulous skiing season, let’s take a moment to celebrate another wonderful season in Vermont. Autumn or Fall, which do you call it? This tree is so pretty it stops traffic […]
Decorating A Timber Frame Home
You have chosen a timber frame for your new space. Hooray! Now let’s talk about more fun stuff, like decorating your timber frame home. For this post, I’d like to talk about three decor elements: Flooring, Lighting and the Kitchen Cabinetry. Imagine exposed timber beams throughout your home, perhaps an […]
My (Sandy) Favorite Vermont Timber Works Frames
Let’s explore a few of my personal favorite projects, of which I have many. This may need to become a series…we will see. 1st is our Deer Lake Boy Scout Camp. A Traditional Timber Frame Design. My next choice is not so traditional. Night Pasture Farm is a timber frame […]
Power Tools
I recently had a gentleman ask me what brand of power tools we use the most. My immediate answer was Makita. Then I thought, well, maybe I should go into the shop and look. Sure enough, as I walk through the shop I see that almost all of our tools […]
Elegant Timber Home On The Lake
This project we call House on the Lake. We should have called it House almost IN the Lake, it’s that close! This is one of our most elegant timber frame projects to date. It has graceful glulaminated arches and warm, rich douglas fir timber. Our crew doesn’t alway raise the […]
A Visit to our Veterans Chapel
My family and I recently stopped in for a quick visit at the Vermont Veterans Memorial Cemetery. They say foliage is past it’s peak, but I can tell you it was still quite beautiful. The cemetery grounds are so well kept and the view down into the valley is breathtaking. […]
The Aging Process Of Timber
When you purchase a new timber structure and all of the beams finally go into place, the finished product is so beautiful that you can’t stop admiring it. Every piece of timber seems so perfect, with the exception of a few knots, which give it character, or some different shading […]
Rough Sawn Hemlock–the Unsung Hero of Timber Framing
Here in New England we have a number of species of trees in our forests, which is why we have such spectacular foliage. One of my personal favorite trees is the Eastern hemlock, Tsuga canadensis, a coniferous water-loving species. Hemlock is one of the species we recommend for a number […]
