For those who love the style of a classic farmhouse, but who also have a taste for all things clean and modern - this New Jersey home is bound to please. The property has several buildings designed by our in-house design department - a main house, pool house, and auto barn.
The framing in a Timberpeg home can be kept very minimal thanks to our structural insulated wall panels, and many clients opt for a simple frame that looks clean and modern. Of course, others like the look of the frame so much they want a lot of it to show. Either way yields a beautiful energy-efficient home. While there is a wide range in the amount of framing used, there’s also an equally wide range of ways that clients can finish their post and beam frames. Here are a few of the different frame finishes our clients have chosen through the years. We’ll start with the darkest, and progress towards the lightest.
This post and beam home is a wonderful blend of Tuscan style architecture and French country flourish. The exterior of this home is finished in stucco, which is a popular choice where this home was built; in the Midwest.
With open floor plans providing such a great feeling of space and airiness, it’s no wonder why they are so popular in today’s homes. And with a post and beam building, the spaces can be very open indeed. But in an open floor plan with limited walls or doors, how do you define the spaces into their separate functions; kitchen, dining, and living? While furniture placement is the most obvious and straightforward answer, many people overlook the importance and impact that ceiling height can have on defining the feel of a space.
This post and beam, barn style home plan has been one of our most popular homes. It has a classic barn style appeal especially when finished in red board and batten siding, and topped with the traditional barn style topper - a cupola.
This TIMBERPEG® home, located in Jerseydale (Mariposa), California is extremely energy efficient and, combined with the 7 kW solar array north of the house, is well on its way to yielding a net zero energy house. Or put more simply, no bills for propane or electricity to heat, cool or run the house.
Written by the homeowners and published with their permission.
Timberpeg® has worked with Habitat for Humanity to construct a new home in Norwich, VT. It is a full timber frame design. In addition to design, Timberpeg supplied the timber frame and labor. Our supplier, Foard Panel of West Chesterfield, NH, donated the structural insulated panels and labor to enclose the home. Flat Rock Coatings of Claremont, NH provided the pre-staining for the tongue-and-groove on the interior walls of the home.
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By Guest Author, Jonathan S. Vincent, AIA - LEED Accredited Professional
Everyone is interested in building a “green” house, but what that means will vary depending upon the owner’s goals. In general, a green house will be one that is designed to use fewer non-renewable resources, and to conserve land, water and energy. The best way to do this is to limit the footprint and size of the building. The reason is simple physics: a smaller house uses less material, and will require smaller energy inputs to be comfortable for its inhabitants. So the first rule is to have a compact house, with less interior volume needing to be heated and cooled.
By Jonathan S. Vincent, LEED Accredited Professional
Properly constructed, your new Timberpeg® home will be energy efficient and tight. The combination of continuous envelope insulation, either structural insulated panels (SIPs) or a built-up vented insulation system ("Wrap & Strap") will result in a house that has very few air leaks, and will be easily heated and cooled. For this reason, it is important to include controlled ventilation in your HVAC plans.
By Jonathan S. Vincent, AIA - LEED Accredited Professional
Selecting lighting fixtures for a timber framed house can be demanding, but the same principles apply as in any other home. As succinctly stated by Peter Romaniello, a lighting consultant from Conceptual Lighting LLC in Connecticut, first decide what you are trying to do, then how you are going to do it, then pick an appropriate lamp, and last of all, select a fixture that takes the selected lamp.
