Building a smaller timber frame home isn’t rocket science. Timber frames lend themselves to smaller, more efficient space. With many homeowners making the choice to build homes that require less space, less maintenance, and are more cost efficient to build and to maintain, timber frame homes are a practical choice.
A smaller home doesn’t have to be cramped and crowded. It can live large with open spaces and less wasted space. Timber frame design typically makes the best use of space that might be a hallway in a conventionally framed home. With no bearing walls, there a few barriers to the way a home flows.
Of course, if you are building on a lot suitable for a basement, including living space both above and below the main floor means you can minimize the footprint of your home. Your first floor may include the more public areas, living room, dining room, kitchen and often the master bedroom. Within your timber frame, the living room, dining room, and kitchen are all “rooms without borders” and flow easily from one to the other.
Porches and decks, extended outdoor living spaces, are important in a smaller home. Expanding the living space outdoors is another way to make your home live larger. Timber frame porches and outdoor living space create shelter from inclement weather, but let you enjoy nature at its best and sometimes most violent.
While homeowners across the country are beginning to realize that smaller homes can be the direction to take for more energy efficient, sustainable living, our timber frame homes have always been designed to make best use of space and to allow their occupants to live large without wasted space.
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