In 1989, my father-in-law taught me to smoke meats and cheeses. I was a timber frame builder—I have my own company, called OakBridge Timber Framing—and I wanted a home project to help me unwind in the ...

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"Anybody can nail sticks together," Jonathan Taylor said. He doesn't have anything against nails, he just doesn't use them much. Taylor, 48, of Phillips, Maine, is building a log shed, mostly without ...

London architecture firm A-Zero has completed an oak frame house that incorporates the steel frame of an old cow shed in a rural area near Leighton Buzzard, England (+ slideshow). A-Zero was asked to ...

Thinking of building a house? The advantages of building a timber frame house over the more standard concrete block method include a shorter construction period but the block method has caught up fast ...

The architects decided to keep the six-foot-high brick perimeter walls of the building and combine the existing steel frame with the new timber frame, creating a sheltered courtyard on one side. In ...