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Many people choose to use timber frame in only one section of a home - a great room, feature area, a living room, sunroom, or kitchen - whether it's a full frame or just timber trusses it adds an economical feature to your home.
Our designers and technicians can help create whatever you can imagine |
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| One of the advantages of timber frame construction is its ability to complement a wide variety of architectural styles. You may prefer a traditional style home or something in between. Some home builders use timber frame construction to recreate classic architectural styles like New England Salt Box or Cape Cod. |
| Others choose to emphasize the wide open interior spaces and the expansive use of glass that are possible with timber frame design. Timber framing also allows the use of a full range of exterior and interior finishing treatments with a wide variety of door and window styles. |
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Timber frame construction is a unique and special type of architecture, thus requiring some special experience at the planning stage. At Moonstone Timber Frame we work closely with the home owner to design a durable and aesthetic structure, considering features such as function, form, cost and energy efficiency. |
Our dovetail log homes are handcrafted in the traditional method of hand scribing each corner notch for a precise and tight fit. We use air dried eastern white pine with a hand adzed finish. The logs can be finished to a thickness of 8" or 10" and a face of approximately 16". |
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Our full scribe round log structures are crafted from selected eastern white pine. We use a shrink-to-fit saddle notch corner that retains its tight fit as the building settles. The logs are hand drawknifed and coated with sanson log guard to prevent mould build-up in the notch area. |
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Commonly, the design process can be accomplished by our in-house design and technical team and the home owner, but quite often outside architects and designers may be involved. Our designers and technicians also incorporate electrical and mechanical systems, as well as alternative energy systems into the timber structure.
Eastern white pine is the most common species of wood used in our frames, but many other species of wood are available - oak, ash, hemlock, cherry, douglas fir, or a combination of the species - the choice is yours. |
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Please view our
PHOTO GALLERY
to see some of our work. |
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