With its bright white siding, metal roof and wraparound porch, the large Lewis Center home looks like a nice farmhouse. But a step inside suggests a far more complicated tale. The home, crafted for a ...

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When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

CO DUBLIN:DAVINCI HOUSE on Quarry Road, Rathmichael, Co Dublin, is what is says on the tin - a zero-carbon, energy efficient timber-framed Davinci Haus. Davinci Haus is a company that provides ...

In Colonial times, they did it the old-fashioned way. They built houses with massive skeletons of wooden beams–and no nails. This type of construction–called timber framing–was an import from the Old ...

Alfredo Rico was a statistician at the United Nations' Manhattan headquarters in 1979 when he realized number-crunching and politics were not for him. He left the UN's modern complex at First Avenue ...

There's a quasi-rural feel to this well located home Woodstock is a timber-frame house, with 3,000 sq ft of living space, clad with reclaimed red-brick Double-height entrance hall with a galleried ...