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The Timberframe Way: A Lavishly Illustrated Guide to the Most Elegant Way to Build a Home

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This is not a how to book, but a beautiful collection of photographs that have been inspiring to browse. The text is moderately helpful, if you plan to hire a professional contractor and does offer some nice design ideas. We bought several different books and a dvd, all of which are helping us plan our own timberframe home that we hope to build within a couple yrs.

A picture book of great timber execution and design. An inspiration or even a problem solver for your own timber house. But bottom line: a nice coffee table book.

Timberframe homes used to be known as post-and-beam homes: no matter what you call them, their popularity has only increased over the years - and THE TIMBERFRAME WAY covers the elements of design and construction which lend to timberframe enjoyment. From design to decoration which enhances timberfame appearance, plenty of color photos pack a room-by-room assessment of specs, appearance, and decor.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

The cozy timberframe home - also known as post-and-beam - is the one home design style that probably elicits more `longing for' than any other. Unfortunately, with cookie-cutter suburban developments plopping `bloated toad' houses on barren lots, not too many of us can escape to our lodge-like home. But we can sure lose ourselves in the dreams of owning one - or designing and building one. Now, good friend of our LivingHome.com site, Michael Morris, and Dick Pirozzolo, have produced with The Lyons Press 2003's most beautiful home living book, The Timberframe Way. This holiday we can't wait to sit around the fireplace in our way-more-ugly home than those pictured in the book and drool over every picture.