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 ...

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Text description provided by the architects. MDB was selected by a wonderful couple to preserve their circa 1860 timber-frame barn. The barn hadn't been touched in over 60 years but for the turkey ...

In the swirling chaos of the early pandemic, I did not always pay attention to my carbon footprint. But when I decided to build a barn on our Vermont property, I learned how my concrete and carbon ...

DOVER Caleb Miller and his younger brother John have always loved woodworking, a passion which has led them to developing the timber framing/construction business JCM Timberworks in Killbuck. “I’ve ...

BILLINGS - It sounds mystical, but it's true. Nels Houghton's dream was the catalyst that brought Daniel Schwartz, an Amish craftsman who specializes in timber-frame buildings, from El Dorado Springs, ...

Timber-frame construction puts gravity and lateral loads into fewer, larger members. It relies on exposed beams and open spans as defining architectural features. That differs from conventional wood ...