Are you after an adventurous project with grand designs? A fresh beginning with an eco-friendly, new-build home designed to your specifications could be just the ticket. “Over the past three decades, ...

With its bright white siding, metal roof and wraparound porch, the large Lewis Center home looks like a nice farmhouse. But a step inside suggests a far more complicated tale. The home, crafted for a ...

When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

When you think about timber-frame homes in Colorado, do you think of multimillion dollar getaway spots in the mountains? Well, it's time to think again. “People equate timber frames to these massive, ...

For the past 10 to 15 years arguments have swept through the construction industry about the merits of conventional brick and block houses against timber frame. I'd like to add to the debate and ...

The Irish Timber Frame Manufacturer’s Association nicely round it up — in timber frame “the inner load bearing/support wall is replaced by an engineered rigid timber frame structure”. This is not ...

Before they built, they prayed. This wasn’t your average construction site. Then Tedd Benson spoke. To most anyone beyond a corps of people who call themselves timber framers, his name might not mean ...

Timber is eco-friendly and renewable but its renaissance is not only to do with save-the-planet overtures. Apart from being the most environmentally benign construction material, when used correctly, ...

Alfredo Rico was a statistician at the United Nations' Manhattan headquarters in 1979 when he realized number-crunching and politics were not for him. He left the UN's modern complex at First Avenue ...

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