Post and Beam — Deflavio Home
In this second of two episodes, a New England crew continues to struggle with inclement weather and a family pushes forward to build their post and beam home before ski season. Post & Beam at its finest. [... more]
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Habitat Post & Beam: Quality Homes and Additions Since 1972
 Habitat Post and Beam catalog review: Since I'm in the process of searching for someone to design and engineer my future timber frame house, this was just the kind of catalog I was looking for. Like the description says, it's for someone who is [... more]
$12.00
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The Quarries, Michael Pyatok, Opposites Attract, ...
In Central Virginia, the Quarries Ecovillage uses the latest in sustainable design to create a preservation-minded paradise out of an abandoned soapstone quarry. High in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, a half post and beam, half modernist ... [... more]
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Swimmer's Paradise, New Digs, PA Farmhouse
First, see a home in Southern California that's a renovated '50s post and beam style that was bought and fixed up by a swimsuit designer. Next, learn more about a retired couple's newly-built, contemporary house in Ohio. Finally, a featured ... [... more]
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Classical Proportions Make Attractive Trim
Once upon a time, some wily Greeks worked out rules for proportioning moldings in almost all rooms. They called these rules orders of architecture. Because the major construction method back then was post and beam, the rules are based on posts ... [... more]
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Post and Beam — Challenges
In this first of two episodes, a New England crew battle the elements with a post and beam kit, one family decides if prefab is the way to go for their Vermont home, and builders who specialize in post and beam construction explain how they ... [... more]
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Timber Frame Construction: All about Post and Beam Building
If you have only dreamed about the beauty of building with timbers, this book will open your eyes. It will convince you that this method is not only practical today for homes and other buildings, but often is less expensive than stick building. Timber [... more]
$12.93 (Save 35%)
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Glulam
The building design for the post and beam storage barn called for a ridge beam spanning 38 feet, making glulam the best-suited product for the job. Glulams are engineered for strength by bonding pieces of wood to create a large beam that is ... [... more]
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Shelter Institute
A Maine family spends their time teaching folks how to build post & beam homes. Many dream of opening a quaint little innbut it's not all blueberry muffins and fireside chats! Then, we meet a Key West craftsman who specializes in the traditional ... [... more]
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The Craft of Modular Post & Beam: Building log and ...
I actually did it.: The other reviewers of this book allude to the fact that they will someday get around to using the information. I have already done it and wanted to add my comments here. I used this book as my "bible" to construct a 24x40 [... more]
$24.95
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Timber Frame Construction: All About Post and Beam Building
Off to a good Start.: " Timber Frame Construction " provides a good basis of knowledge for the expeirenced builder intrested in learning post and beam joinery , from the history of the craft to tools and joints. I found the book a valuable [... more]
$19.95
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Building With Awareness: The Construction of a Hybrid ...
Awesome resource for green owner/builders using adobe, straw: This is one of the TOP 2-3 resources I have come across for an owner/builder that wants to see ALL STEPS of the construction of a house using adobe and/or straw. While the primary envelope of [... more]
$42.00
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