A timber frame home provides its owners with an entire list of benefits. In no special order, here are some: Beauty, strength, design pliability, energy conservation, faster build times, and increased resale values.

In Canada we've got a rich practice of building with wood, particularly in provinces like English Columbia, Ontario and Quebec where a colorful forestry industry has been a major engine in their various economies for many years. Who does not want the heat, grace and personality of heavy timbers on the inside of their home? Enter timber framing, one of the oldest systems of building in the world, which implies the utilization of heavy timbers joined along with furniture-like mortise & tenon joinery, and hardwood pegs.

On top of providing beauty and heat to a home, the sheer scale of the timbers makes the home extremely study and long-lasting - existing timber frames in Europe have been about for over eight hundred years. As well as strength, you get design adaptability from a post and beam home. Because the huge posts in the home take all of the vertical loads, interior partition walls can be placed anywhere - or not at all - dependent on how open a floor-plan you would like.

The last significant benefit of timber frames houses comes in the shape of energy conservation. The walls and roof system are built round the timber structure, providing clients with an uninterrupted thermal envelope, full of insulation, rather than structural members.

It's the timber structure on the inside which resists dead and live loads, which allows raised levels of insulation within the walls. Ultimately, with all of the handiwork and top quality materials found in timber frame houses, it's not surprising that they habitually out-price in a similar way sized traditional houses when it is time to put them on the real-estate market. With all of the benefits connected with timber framing, would it not seem sensible to consider it next time you build?