This full time-lapse build was late winter on an existing building site. The old building was torn down (hence the weirdly shaped concrete pad inside our walls) and we nearly doubled it's size. Will ...

For third generation carpenter Russ Brotnov and his tight-knit Carpentry Plus Inc. team, it’s long been a family affair. His father Lyle founded Carpentry Plus in 1991. Russ joined two years later and ...

When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

TAKES A VILLAGE: Barron Brown directs a crew at a barn raising near Marshall. Photo by Storms Reback It’s not every day you get invited to a barn raising, so when I did, I jumped at the opportunity.

Post and beam and timber frame are both beautiful methods of building but most people think of them as one and the same. Although they are similar, there are subtle differences between them. Both are ...