#timberframe

There’s nothing quite like the presence of heavy timbers. For our timber‑frame builds, we work with oversized posts and beams ranging from 10x10 to 12x12, each one hand‑selected for strength, stability, and that unmistakable Cascade character.

Old timberframe houses - art reference pack

I took these photos primarily for my own art reference purposes, now you can have them too! Available on Cubebrush for $9 😊

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There’s nothing quite like the warmth and comfort of home during the holidays. We are incredibly grateful for the privilege of crafting the spaces where your most cherished family memories are made. May your season be filled with peace, joy, and traditions that last a lifetime.

Here’s to a wonderful holiday, Christmas, and a Happy New Year!

The central gathering point is a common area with an outdoor stage and benches like a campground and a longhouse that is a multipurpose structure. A section partitioned for equipment storage for well drilling, dirt road maintenance, scaffolding, timber sawmill, etc. A workshop of various disciplines to build whatever is needed and teach new skills. And finally a kitchen for community events.

Surrounding this common agora would be driveways to individual homesteads. The architectural designs focusing on using the renewable resources of the forest. Log cabins, timber frame, and A-frame homes of various sizes plus whatever barns, chicken coops, sheds, and greenhouses are required for each home. These all use related wood working techniques so each member's accumulated experience can help in the next project.

The idea is for the whole community to be gridless with individual power setups based on the terrain around the homes, meaning solar, hydro, biogas digester, etc. The longhouse gets two power systems, one either hydro or solar, with a woodgas generator backup. The land immediately surrounding each home should be gardens and livestock shifting into native forests. Silviculture would be a community effort with constant renewal of the forest and supporting wildlife.

Horses need shod and the estate needs ironwork, so for hundreds of years this little smithy in Germany has kept the forge fire burning and the iron steadily flowing.

I can't imagine working in a shop that's so neat and clean. Or has that much history behind it.

The craftsmanship in the wood and stone must certainly be an inspiration.