We've been working for the last year getting this project ready, and we're finally out framing. It is an architect-designed shingle-style home right in town. We helped specify many timber frame and high performance details. There's also a LOT of beautiful red oak logs being milled into timbers, flooring, and trim. We'll be posting more photos as we build this great project.
We had a video crew out a few weeks, and here is the first video in a series of three that features Uncarved Block. We visit three of our previous projects, The House in the Woods, the Art Studio, and the Architect's Additions. We've even got the crew in the shop planing and oiling red oak timbers for our next project.
We designed an built a small English-style timber frame porch for a house that we built several years ago. The porch is all white oak, black locust, and copper, which will all naturally rot resistant and will be left to weather. More pictures coming as we wrap things up.
We've been shooting some professional videos in the shop and at some of projects. They should be out any day!
Here is the newest addition to the Uncarved Block family--Sawyer Stephen Morse.
Here is a nice splash of color that we built at one of my favorite houses. It features inset doors and drawers with even reveals, pull out drawers behind the doors, a maple top, and a secret compartment in the back to store the dining room table leaves.
These are traditional housed stringers in white ash for the House in the Woods. The stairs are pre-assembled as a unit, making a squeak-free, beam-like unit that will last for centuries. Treads are in cherry, risers and stringers in ash.
I just attended the grand opening of Menck Window, the first and only European manufacturer of tilt turn windows in the US. Fortunately, they're just an hour away from us, and we hope to use them on some of our upcoming projects. I loved this cross-section of their direct glazing system (which can also be capped with wood). I can't wait to use this amazing system to direct glaze over a timber frame.
We just had our Art Studio project featured in an article on Houzz:
A shop drawing of a timber frame post. It shows all of the relevant joinery and locations on all 4 sides of the timber.
We cut and pre-assembled a small hipped roof with scissor trusses in our shop.
existing cabin, before shot
A fairly complex, multi-level concrete pour
You can see the conventional framing, the exterior wall foam and strapping, and the beginning of the upper metal siding.
You can see our amazing sawyer, Chip (that is really his name) cutting maple, cherry, and pine off of the property.
A series of additions to a cabin in the woods. See here for finished photos.
The old school approach to stair handrails that not only curve, but twist.
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