As a child growing up in Big Sky country, Scott Butcher found a comforting appeal in rustic homes and barns. “I worked in my grandfather’s timber frame barn back in Montana, and loved the feel, the ...

Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...

The process of building the timber-frame barn has been a "blast," Brad Hodgson said. The new barn stands next to an aluminum machine shed on the Hodgson property. Not a single nail was used in the ...

The garden built a barn the old-fashioned way, through a process known as timber-framing, a method of construction whose origins predate the birth of Jesus Christ and was popular in New England during ...

Paul Freeman was just another college kid sitting in a lecture hall in 1977 when he heard his calling.”It became clear that my boyhood home with its weathered dark beams, gunstock posts, and ...

The spirit and practice of barn raising will return to Geneseo, Ill., Aug. 12–22 when Trillium Dell Timberworks, in conjunction with the Timber Framers Guild, will host a community event to raise a ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich University in Switzerland are using a new method for digital timber construction in a real project for the first time. The load-bearing timber modules, which are ...

CANE HILL -- Smells of brewed coffee and wood dust filled the air on the Sunday afternoon, June 1, of a long-anticipated, once-delayed timber framing workshop held May 29 to June 4 at Colburn Barn ...