Painted Cabinetry in a Timber Frame Home

A beautiful kitchen in a timber frame home is always a winner in my book.  In a conventionally framed home, natural wood cabinetry would be my choice, in almost every situation.  But, what about a timber frame home?  Wood timbers, probably wood flooring, the cabinetry in another wood choice might be too much.  Painted cabinetry wins out for contrast alone.

Painted Cabinetry in a Timber Frame Home

What do you think?  The white cabinets are very pretty and very safe.  Would you be more daring?

Hand Hewn Timbers Contrast Nicely.

Count me in on all of this.  Hand hewn timbers, gorgeous stone fireplace and hearth, love it.  Let’s take a look at the exterior, just for fun!

Let it snow!

Thank you for stopping by, comments are welcome!

Traditional Post and Beam Construction

Deer Lake Scout Camp

Post and Beam Construction!

 Let’s go inside…

Native white pine timbers were chosen for the interior with douglas fir timbers for the exterior area.

Working with  Bismark Construction and Huestis Tucker Architects, LLC was a wonderful experience, we look forward to future opportunities.

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 38,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 9 Film Festivals

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Competitive Bidding

Competitive Bidding / Bid As Drawn

This can be a tough one, if you have a concern based on design aesthetic or worse…engineering.  What’s the best way to approach this?

Let’s see….

1.  Bid as drawn with so many comments and notes in the proposal that you think you are covered.

2.  Bid as an alternate, hope they appreciate your attention to detail and concern.

3. Bid it both ways and hope for the best.

What do you think?  In various construction methods, this similar situation must come up.  We would like to hear your thoughts!

Timber Frame Raising / Progress Shots

View from the jobsite!

Great progress for day 2 timber frame raising.

Day 3, love that view!

Setting Joists

Setting the last full bent

Setting joists in the loft area…

Can you imagine the view looking out the dormer?

Timber Frame Raising End of Day 3

Day 4 begins below!

Day 5, time to wrap it up, setting rafters. Looks great!

View of the timber framing from lake side, nice.

Great job guys, come home!

Happy Thanksgiving + Pinterest Fun

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Vermont Timber Works, Inc.

Pergola Love

Check out the details!

Better yet, check out the crazy beautiful view!

I think we should all have a timber frame pergola in our backyard, who’s with me?

InStyleTour / Giovanni DeCunto

InStyleTour / Part 2

Meeting Giovanni DeCunto and viewing his new artwork collection was wonderfully exciting!

Just a few of the featured paintings…incredible!

Cupcakes!!

Laurie Gorelick WON the painted that Giovanni gifted to InStyleTour!! Lucky girl 🙂

and there was dancing.

Thank you Blanco America and Giovanni DeCunto for sponsoring this event, I believe a wonderful time was had  by all!

Great job hosting by Andie Day & Todd Vendituoli

Richard from Vermont Custom Cabinetry and Sandy (me) from Vermont Timber Works, very happy to be involved.

Recap of part 1

As a few of you may know, I’m still wondering what to do with this wall space in my new room, below the ceiling beams…what do you think about a set from Giovanni? Maybe a trilogy?

Ready to Raise (Almost)…

Timber frame fabrication almost complete for the Nemacolin Woodlands NEW Ski Lodge (very exciting project)!

Time to get organized…everybody MOVE your cars, please.

Uhmmm, Tom? Where the heck is Tom?

Ok, here we go.

This project has quite a lot of steel joinery, need to check it before we get to the jobsite, just to be sure we have all that we need.

Interesting steel column cap shown here.  All of the steel was designed by us and custom created for us by Vermont Steelcraft.

Glulams from Calvert Company via Northwest Specialty Timbers.

If you have Adobe Reader, and would like to check out our design, click below.  Peeled pole columns, glulam branches and lots of STEEL!

Nemacolin Ski Lodge Timber Frame 3d

I’ll add more pictures later, please come back 🙂

Octoberfest!

Let’s celebrate the October colors!

Please click on each photo to see where I found them (and to see much more incredible foliage shots)!

Happy Fall from all of us timber framers @ Vermont Timber Works, Inc.