H O U S E S & A D D I T I O N S ~project sampler~ following are samples of full house frames, house roof frames, trusses, room additions, & integrated structural timber components
Connecticut Saltbox c.2002 Our first project...our home. Framework joined in yellow-poplar, Norway spruce, and eastern hemlock. Inspired by the Hall House of Cheshire, Connecticut c.1741.
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Prairie House c.2003 Joined in eastern hemlock, this hipped roof frame is comprised of king post trusses supporting hip rafters. Inspired by a church on Nantucket c. 1823.
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C. C. Greatroom Addition c.2006 Joined in red oak, white oak, and cherry, this frame serves as a greatroom addition to an existing conventionally-framed home. Inspired by 15th century English framing.
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Oak House c.2007 Framed exclusively in red and white oak, this house frame features four major roof valleys, two gable dormers and two shed dormers as well as piazza framed in white oak timber at the front of the home. Inspired by 15th century medieval English framing.
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Hambden House Trusses c. 2009 We designed and crafted four timber-framed trusses to fit within an existing conventionally framed home. The challenge was two-fold: we had to make joinery choices that allowed for in-situ assembly in reverse order (from the top down) and raising the trusses piece by piece within the confines of existing framed walls and roof from the top down, holding the upper timber in-place while negotiating the adjoining lower timber into position. More simply put, we had to work upside down and backwards. The trusses are eastern hemlock with the exception of the black cherry flitchbeam in the truss over the fireplace.
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Nottingham House c.2010 - 2011 Built by Payne & Payne Custom Builders, Inc. of Chardon, Ohio, this new conventionally framed home features a smattering of integrated traditional timberwork designed and joined by The Sweetgrass Joinery Co. The back screened-in porch is a full timber-framework in western red cedar and includes a black-cherry flitch-sawn collar harvested from the clearing of the house site. Other cedar timberwork includes the structural support for the front porch, interior loft support timber, and a hand-carved mantle over the fireplace.
