The questions we'd ask if we were hiring a timber frame company: who cuts the frame, what the price covers, and who

How we plan, cut, load and raise a timber frame shipped from our shop in New Hampshire to a building site hundreds

Who draws the house, who designs the frame, and when to bring us in. How we work with architects and designers on

A hybrid timber frame home puts real timbers in the rooms you live in and regular framing everywhere else. Here's how we

Why big timbers crack as they dry, what kind of movement is normal in the first few winters, and the few signs

Timber frame maintenance is lighter than most folks expect. Dust the beams, look things over once a year, and oil the dry

What a timber frame raising looks like from our side: getting the site ready, putting bents together on the deck, and standing

How we plan a timber frame open floor plan in snow country, and what we learned building the 24-foot Brookline living room

Thinking about a timber frame addition? How we approach a great room or porch on an existing house, who does what, and

How mortise and tenon joinery works, why we pin our frames with oak pegs and not steel, and a few shop stories