Once inside Baker's house, you take an aesthetic leap even further back in time. The two-story great room, with its sloped, paneled roof and elaborate system of trusses, posts and beams, has the ...

Explore the timeless process of building a warm and inviting Fachwerk house, showcasing the entire construction journey from start to finish. How does traditional timber framing bring a home to life?

They finally decided on using timber framing, a traditional building style rarely used anymore. When the Touchstone family sat down to design a guesthouse for their property, ...

In those days, most timber framing work in Switzerland was roof construction, and Gnehm found that he liked the feeling of being over everyone else on a job site.