Using full-color photos, detailed drawings, and clear step-by-step instructions, Learn to Timber Frame (Storey Publishing, 2016) is a guidebook for beginners, showing exactly how to build one small ...

Snow loads, –30 °C nights, and humid summer heatwaves test any cabin. A prefab kit that thrives in those extremes starts with a super-tight shell: thick wall assemblies, continuous insulation, and ...

Alfredo Rico was a statistician at the United Nations' Manhattan headquarters in 1979 when he realized number-crunching and politics were not for him. He left the UN's modern complex at First Avenue ...

Often, the key to a successful major change is retaining some continuity, some tangible link with the past. When Mike Mulvagh took ownership from his mother of the family’s 70-year-old timber-framed ...