New Projects – U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service

After quite some time in design and budget development, engineering and contractor reviews, permit and zoning approvals, this rough-sawn white oak timber frame in Old Greenwich, Connecticut is now proceeding apace. The frame encompasses a great room with second floor bridge, kitchen, dining room and master bedroom. This is one of two projects we’re currently […]
The Ideal Client

A good while back the editor of a now defunct timber frame magazine for which I had written several articles suggested that I do and article on the “ideal client” — the type who makes the whole process an easy and totally enjoyable experience. At first I thought he wanted a humorous, tongue in cheek […]
Quality

“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell for a little cheaper; and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.” – JOHN RUSKIN, 1819-1900 Last December my father, late into his 91st year, died in his sleep. He was a WWII veteran, […]