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 ...

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My house was built in the 1960s, and had a modest build budget by the standards of the time. In 2017, builders suck their teeth, look at our ceiling of western red cedar, and tell us how much that ...

Timber frames, for so long limited to the low-rise residential sector, have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses, thanks to technological breakthroughs. What does the future hold? For ...