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Welcome to our blog, a glimpse of the internal workings and details of timberframing, design, and woodworking! Nearly three decades ago we started a small timber frame company. Today, along with our...
View ArticleIn Their Words: Bob, R&L Home Improvement, Bedford, NY
Existing stone walls provided the perfect base to fit this outdoor pavilion-inspired living space. Painted to match the trellis, the timbers were further embellished with elegant lambs-tongue...
View ArticleFind the Beetle: Lake Home Project, Ithaca, NY
For this week’s post, you can find our beetle settled on a high slope overlooking the west side of Cayuga Lake. This lake home project represents one of the handful of projects that New Energy Works...
View ArticlePrototyping Beyond the Barriers with hsb3DPrinting
We recently teamed up with hsbcad and hsblabs to experiment with their new add-in for Autodesk® Revit® – hsb3DPrinting. The program enables you to decompose a Revit building model into logical, scaled...
View ArticleFind the Beetle: Residential Car Barn, Great Falls, VA
This week, our beetle was in Great Falls, VA assisting in raising a residential timber frame car barn. The 100′ x 60′ glulam king post structure will have a SIP roof enclosure with some beams that...
View ArticleBe Our Guest
Timber Home Living recently featured one of our West Coast timber frame homes in their April 2016 edition. To accommodate their revolving list of family and friends, Bill and Dianna dreamed of a cozy...
View ArticleIn Their Words: Patrick Rogers, The Pike Company, West Henrietta, NY
Located near downtown Rochester, this project put a contemporary twist on timber framing by combining elements of pavilion, trellis, and pergola designs. The resulting 1,000 square foot space serves as...
View ArticleThe Commons
Many of our clients want a connected space that works well as the living room, kitchen and dining area, and are looking for this in a more intimate volume than some of the bigger great rooms we often...
View ArticleOut on a Limb
Home & Design featured one of our East Coast timber frame homes in a recent edition of their magazine. Architect Mark Kohler ‘went out on a limb’ and purchased five acres of land in Woodbridge,...
View ArticleEvents: Gateway Community Visitor’s Center, Schuylerville, NY
This fall, our friends at the Timber Framers Guild will raise the new Gateway Community Visitor’s Center in Schuylerville, NY. The new timber frame building will be constructed at the site of General...
View ArticleFirst Complete Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) Building in New York State
We began raising the first complete Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) building in New York State on our main campus in Farmington, NY in late January 2017. A combination of mass timber, heavy timber, and...
View ArticleA Family Retreat on Canandaigua Lake: Designing Spaces
When we last visited Dan & Laurie’s project on Canandaigua Lake, Pete, one of our design group architects and the design leader for the home, walked us through the site planning. I nabbed Pete...
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