Cutting Brothers Inc. Artistic Woodwork & Timber Frame Design

There’s something about timber frame that lends itself to an expansive yet warm ambience. Although popular with home and cottage owners, there’s a quietly kept secret about timber frame: one doesn’t have to have an entire home built using timber frame design to achieve its ambience and style.

Having timber frame “accents” incorporated into a home is an entire subcontractor trade in itself. These accents comprise of rafters, trusses, decorative trusses, gables and structural timber frame pieces.

The favoured areas that particularly lend themselves to timber frame design are great rooms, Muskoka rooms and entranceways. As timber frame construction is typically from $35 – 50 per square foot more expensive than traditional construction, it is wise to spend the money where you’ll get the most value – where it is seen through the day, in the most frequently used rooms and as such, timber frame can boost your home equity and help the home sell faster, particularly in the secondary home (cottage) market.

It’s best to engage a timber frame company at the design stage so that they can advise how to best incorporate timber frame into the desired areas of the home. In this way, timber frame companies truly function as custom designers.

When meeting with potential timber frame companies, have them show you their portfolio and share your ideas and, if you have them, designs. Listen to their suggestions. Typically, timber frame companies will design, engineer, prepare, assemble and install.

Occasionally, a timber frame contractor is called in to retrofit a house that has already been built, in which case the timber frame accents then become non-structural, yet add to the character of the home.

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Cutting Brothers fits timber frame into your idea of your dream home. You’ll always be dealing with one of the brothers throughout all stages of the project. Our trademark is personalized and customized service.

Cutting Brothers Inc.
Artistic Woodwork & Timber Frame Design
3680 Muskoka Road 118 West,
Port Carling, Ontario
(705) 765-1615
cuttingbrosinc.com
[email protected]

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