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Wrap-around porch

A great way to bring the beautiful timber framing outside for all to see is by building a porch. This one was added to an old farm house. It is just outside the kitchen and two of the windows were replaced by french doors, creating a great summer dining area. The porch was 40’ long in each direction.

Sugar shack

This little building is only 10’ by 14’ with a woodshed on the long side and covered shelves for tanks on the gable. It has a big stove inside and a venting roof for a nice small backyard maple sugaring operation in the late New England winter.

Scissor truss

This timber framed roof covers a drive-way between two buildings. It was made from wood that came from the trees cleared from the building site. The trusses are 14’ wide and the structure is 24’ long.

Farmers Porch

I donated this porch to a “Habitat for Humanity” house that I noticed being built in my neighborhood. When I mentioned what my beam order was for, Ray Roberts a local sawmill owner supplied the wood for free. We raised it with the Habitat volunteers who were building the house.

Cedar Pergola

This structure has 3 bents, the posts are 12’ wide and 10’ apart making it 12’ by 20’ with the trellis work overhanging 2’ all around. It is made from western red cedar. It was built over an existing patio, and really created a great outdoor living space for the house.

Portfolio of Pergolas, Porches and Mini Barns

I have also built Timber Framed structures of all sizes, shapes and uses. This page is to give you an idea for the range of small Timber frame projects that can be done. Many of these projects don’t cost much but can greatly enhance the indoor and outdoor living spaces around your home. These projects can be lots of fun and add a real artistic element to your life.

Local Cedar pergola

This pergola was built for a customer that we had just built a barn/shop for and his wife said she wanted something too. It was made from a stack of eastern cedar logs they had on the site. Its size of 8’ by 12’ was dictated by the logs we had to work with. Some were sawn while others were used in the round.

Kids Play House

This one is very special to me. It is a 5’ by 8” barn built for and by my Kids! They were 3 and 6 years old at the time, but they were fully hands-on and really did the work of cutting the frame, raising, roofing, siding and painting it. We had a miniature barn raising and everything was their size. The building took one day to raise just like the big barns.

Hadlyme

train station

This structure is a reproduction of an original “flag-stop” station on the New Haven RR. We cut the timber frame and then it was raised and finished in one day with the volunteers of the “Friends of the Valley RR”.

Garden shed

This little building is 10’ by 16’ After completing several large jobs we are often left with a few extra or rejected beams - great for making inexpensive little sheds like this one we made in two days for my father.

Common Ground sheds

We built 2 similar sheds at the Common Ground charter school. We had teemed up with Ted from City Bench who supplied the live edge wood. The Structures were student designed and after we cut the frames, the students help to raise and finish the structures. You can find out more about City Bench and there work by going to there web site on my links page.

Porch Frame

This 16’ by 20’ porch frame went right on top of an existing deck on the back of this house. This Job was out of state, so the frame was cut as usual at our shop and installation took only one day. A local contractor finished the roofing later.

Timber Frame Bridge

Need a Bridge, we can do that too! This all white oak bridge spanned 24’ over a small stream in the back yard. It is a king post truss design. Repeat customers are great! In the second picture, you can see 4 of our timber frames, the Barn, the addition, the solarium on the addition and the bridge.

Screened in Porch Frame

This 12’ by 16’ porch frame went right on top of an existing deck on the back of this house. Wood framed screens were hand made and install as removable panels.

The tale of an entry

I was asked to put a small entry roof over the front door, and then a 7x10 side entry porch. When asked how he liked them, he said there was only one problem... they made the rest of the house look like s**t. So after my friends at Custom carpenters finished building lager soffits and residing and roofing, he ended up with the home of his dreams. loving that so much, he had to have a Barn Raisers Barn! See # 73 “Garage Mahal” on my barns page.

# 87 Shed 2016

This is 16’ by 20’ 1 story 3 bent shed. The roof has a valley system of beams to connect the different roof lines. The frame was finished off with pine siding and a metal roof. This was an exact copy of an existing shed that had rotted away. The new one is built upon a reenforced version of the original foundation.

# 89 BBQ pavilion 2016 This little frame is 8’ by 10’ with the roof fame extending out to 12’ by 16’. It was made from Tamarack wood. A local tree that is classified as a deciduous conifer, meaning it is a pine tree that looses it’s needles in the winter. it is know for good rot resistance. It was then covered with clear sheeting so the light would come through but one could still grill in the rain.

# 94 Pergola 2017

This is a 10’ by 16’ frame made from western red cedar, and we built it on an existing deck. You can see our barn, #77 in the background we had built 3 years before. We always appreciate our repeat customers!!

# 95 Pergola 2017

This is a 5’ by 26’ frame, also made from western red cedar. This pergola was made to support their Wisteria plant.

# 108 Pergola 2019

This is a 16’ by 20’ 3 bent frame, made from western red cedar. It was set up on brick and blue stone piers.

Timber Entry 2019

This Entry was made with live edge white oak beams from off the land where we built it and the barn, see #106 on the barn page.