Timber frame cottages are the iconic blending of natural design and modern practicality. Timber remains readily available, cheap, easy to work with, environmentally friendly and breathtakingly beautiful. The look of real wood construction captures a warm rustic charm. Construction with wood frame cottages provides owners a variety of user friendly companies to take the process from start to finish. Timber frame construction is also an environmentally friendly and efficient building technique. Traditional rustic beauty, ease of construction, and cost effectiveness are combined in today’s timber frame options.

Building with real wood adds a natural quality to any project. Timber accents the surrounding landscape even if you only have a small lot with a couple shrubs for foliage. Log construction is revered around the world, from Bavaria to Alaska as the apex of achieving natural looking architecture. Numerous companies have designed varieties of plans that specifically highlight the natural wood strengths of timber frame houses. Pure log cabins evoke the rustic charm and purity but a timber frame construction maintains that sense while allowing modern upgrades and a variety of elements to be added. Timber frame homes capture the beauty of using natural logs while incorporating the full pallet of modern architecture. The endstate is a home that is natural, rustic, and breathtaking.

Timber construction may at first appear to add steps to the already tedious and complicated new home construction process. The reality is that many companies specialize their construction techniques to incorporate these natural highlights. Timber frame construction companies simply the process even further. Many companies will manage the entire process from start to finish. The company will help the owner choose a design or even design their own dream house. The same company then controls the entire build team and the owner, from start to finish, has the advantage of dealing with only one team. Many of the ready to build blueprints incorporate stunning timber designs and highlights, but customization is even more impressive. Timber frame construction companies offer the unique ability to work with a designer who will follow the project through and help bring a dream cottage to life.

Log cabins are the epitome of environmentally friendly building concepts. However, log pure log construction limits the builder’s options on incorporating modern environmentally friendly upgrades, like good storm windows. Environmentally friendly building materials are important for the planet but also save production costs. Just as important to your wallet, is the costs of heating and cooling associated with your new home. Timber frame building incorporates the best of both options. Timber frame housing uses natural wood materials but incorporates those materials into modern designs that, from inception, blend the traditional with the modern. Natural wood logs save money during construction and modern insulation, windows, and doors save money after building is complete.

Timber frame construction is a growing section of the housing market and with good reason. Building homes that incorporate the natural beauty of real wood captures the iconic feel of a log cabin, accenting, as opposed to overcoming, the landscape. Firms that specialize in timber construction, embrace their special niche, and carry their projects from design to completion. The completed homes are efficient and environmentally friendly thanks to natural materials and modern upgrades. For a combination of cost, beauty, and efficiency, there is nothing like a custom timber frame cottage.

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