When It Pays to Throw Out the Old

This is the story of how a dearly loved lakeside cottage that had been in a family for years gave way to a modern timber frame-home. The owners no longer mourn the loss but celebrate what they’ve gained.

Windows on the World

Moving from a 19th-century Victorian house to a contemporary timber-frame home transported Brad and Lou Ann Miller to a whole new way of life. Accustomed to confined and formal, the western Pennsylvania couple found themselves embracing wide-open spaces, inside and outside the home.

Bridge to the Future

A timber home was not in the cards when Dr. Warren Wolfe and his wife, Diane, decided to sell their New Jersey home of more than 30 years and head south to live closer to their children and grandchildren. The original plan? To buy a resale house in one of Washington, D.C.’s quiet suburbs.

A Platinum LEED-Certified Post and Beam Home

Bob Burnside doesn’t cut corners, a fact that can be either incredibly helpful or impossibly annoying to a homebuilder. No matter. Bob refers to his building style as MBWA, or Management By Walking Around. “I watch what people are doing, and I ask a lot of questions, which helps everybody pay more attention and do their jobs more thoroughly,” says Bob.

Cozy Quarters

When Detroit architect Bob Formisano came up with the idea for his family’s second home, he knew just who to turn to. He’d been working with the Sales Manager at Riverbend Timber Framing for two years on his company home-cost.com that develops a software program to help determine the cost of building a custom home.

Family Affair

Paul and Suzanne ZumFelde’s new timber home is truly a family place. It sits on 67 acres of Ohio farmland that have been in the family since 1905. It was designed in part by Paul and his brother, California architect Dale ZumFelde, then modified by a designer at Riverbend Timber Framing.

All Remains True

After a fire devastates their 18th-century home, a Long Island couple builds anew and maintains the historic character of their original house.

Breaking New Ground

When Bob Burnside moved near Ann Arbor, Michigan a few years ago, the home-construction veteran wanted to announce his arrival in a big way. So he did what any savvy builder would do – construct a spectacular timber home that would act as his calling-card for potential clients.

The Laws of Nature

Even after she was grown and had made a home in Alexandria, Virginia with her husband Ad, Jill Eichner’s childhood ties to a lake in northern Michigan tugged at her heart.

Extreme Home

Dale and Brigitte Stevens love to fly. In fact they own their own plane – a Maule MX7. The couple flies so much that when they were looking for property to build a dream home, one of their requirements was that any acreage they found had to have a strip of land long enough and flat enough to become a runway.