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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo illustration by Getty Images.) A federal jury convicted a Stevensville timber frame home builder on Sept. 20 of wire fraud ...

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. — A Stevensville timber frame home builder was sentenced for defrauding customers. Brett Mauri, 61, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.8 million in ...

Acting as your own general contractors on the building of your house is not for the faint of heart. It takes time, money and, most of all, vision. It helps to do a little rehearsing. “We spent three ...

While the word bungalow is commonly associated with homes that only have one floor, single storey timber frame home ideas push the boundaries of what is possible when you opt to have just one floor of ...

Milwaukee's first building created with an unusual construction method, using high-grade timber instead of steel for its frame, will be completed next spring. Timber Lofts, a 60-unit apartment ...

The great debate when it comes to lake homes is whether to call the street side or the lake side the “front.” For Laurie and Dan Hoffend, whose timber-frame home is built into a cliff overlooking ...

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, ...

The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) has released the first-ever set of U.S. recommendations for hybrid steel frames with mass timber floors, according to a news release. Design Guide ...

Some high-profile projects by Vermont timber framers have been attracting attention over the past few years. Off Route 2 in Richmond, expert Eliot Lothrop is supervising a major, multiyear restoration ...