Timber Frames of Distinction
Designing, building, and teaching
across Vermont, New England, and North America.
Featured Projects
Design and Drafting
I design custom timber frames for homes, barns, outbuildings, and commercial and public spaces.
I also consult and develop plans based on existing architectural designs.
Workshops
From beginner to advanced, I offer a variety of educational workshops geared toward different goals and audiences.
These classes are sometimes held at established trade schools. I also organize independent workshops across the continent, in collaboration with individual clients and community organizations.
What is Timber Framing?
Timber framing is the historic craft of joining solid wood posts and beams together into an interlocking structural frame. This type of joinery is usually fastened with pegs and is commonly referred to as “mortise and tenon.”
I have long been attracted to the dignity of this work - its use of simple materials and tools to craft lasting, beautiful structures.
One of the most profound features of timber framing is that it’s really hard to do this work alone - even a small garden shed needs a few extra to raise it. Interlocking timber in a hand-crafted frame is an expression of relationship-building, mutual aid, and interdependence.
When we build together using traditional skills, ”we find ourselves embedded more deeply in one another’s
lives - joined together more securely.”
-Joshua Klein, Editor of Mortise and Tenon Magazine