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Timber Frame-Home: Design, Construction,
Finishing
by: Tedd Benson
In this completely revised and updated version
of Tedd Benson’s 1988 best seller for builders
and homeowners, readers get expert information
on every facet of timber frame construction.
This comprehensive reference to timber frame
house design has many new drawings and color
photos, more design information, revised
technical data and updated building details.
Benson is one of the nation’s foremost timber
framers whose work has been seen on Public
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Timber Frame Construction: All About
Post-And-Beam Building
by Jack A. Sobon and Roger Schroeder
Explains the basics of timber-frame construction
in terms the beginner can understand: framing;
designing for strength and beauty; using modern
tools and selecting the appropriate wood. |
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The Timberframe Plan Book
by Michael Morris, Dick Pirozzolo
As the editor of Living Home, I have to say that
this new book is a real winner. With the
popularity of timber frame homes, many of the
best companies put out beautiful brochures (some
even charging for them), and some have Web. |
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Timberframe Interiors
by Dick Pirozzolo, Linda Corzine
Dressing for the home With this book you can
introduce yourself into the world of home decor.
I was fascinated with much of the advice and
learned so much about defining space, using
color, lighting enhancements and selecting
furnishings and much more. |
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Timber-Frame Houses (Fine Homebuilding's...
by Fine Homebuilding Magazine(Editor)
Traditional methods and current innovations
make timer-frame building more practical than
ever. Top teachers and practitioners like Tedd
Benson, Jack Sobon and George Nash describe
remodels and reconstructions, houses modeled and
more. |
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Recommended Reading: General Construction
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Sheri Koones has taken all of the mystery in home building and made sense of it. Her common sense approach will help you make informed decisions. Ms. Koones helps you to weigh the pros and cons of many traditional and newer cutting edge products and services. |
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The Self-Build Book: How to EnjoyDesigning and Building Your Own Home
by: Jon Broome and Brian Richardson (Revised & updated)
Architects Jon Broome and Brian Richardson recognize that professional advice sometimes undermines the emotional satisfaction that motivates people to build their own homes. The Self-Build Book encourages and teaches the individual how to maintain control of the designing and building process, thereby maximizing effectiveness and pleasure. |
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The Kitchen Idea Book
To many families, the kitchen is more than a place where food is cooked and eaten. It's where parties begin and end, homework is done, pets are fed, bills are paid, and secrets are told over endless cups of coffee. |
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The Bathroom Idea Book
As its name suggests, The Bathroom Idea Book is all about ideas. In fact, anyone who views the book's 400 color photos will have clearer ideas about what they absolutely love, simply appreciate and definitely detest in |
Recommended Reading: Other Alternative Building Resources
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The Straw Bale House (A Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by: Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge, David Eisenberg (Contributor)
Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually renewable resource, for the cost of a comparable conventional home. Welcome to the straw bale house! "This is the book we’ve been waiting for . . . The authors have done a superb job of providing enough basics to make the book understandable to homeowners, yet enough specifics to make it highly useful to designers and professional builders." --Alex Wilson, editor, Environmental Building News
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Buildings of Earth and Straw
by: Bruce King, P. E
Straw bale and rammed earth construction techniques are enjoying a fantastic growth in interest in the United States and worldwide. When the interest converts to action, however, builders and homeowners can encounter resistance from mainstream construction and lending communities unfamiliar with these techniques and materials. This book is the essential companion to The Straw Bale House and The Rammed Earth House, providing technical data from an engineer’s perspective. |
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The Rammed Earth House (Real Goods Independent Living Book)
by: David Easton & Cynthia Wright (Photographer)
Humans have been using earth as a primary building material for more than ten thousand years. Rammed earth, as practiced today, involves tamping a mixture of earth, water, and a little cement into wooden forms to create thick, sturdy masonry walls. Earthbuilt homes offer their inhabitants a powerful sense of security and well-being and have a permanence and solidity altogether lacking in so many of today’s modular, prefab houses. |
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The Natural House: A Complete Guide to...
by Daniel D. Chiras
This sourcebook examines the options for building a house that is economical, energy-efficient, nontoxic, kind to the environment, and pleasurable to inhabit. Explores the pros and cons of 14 natural building methods, ... |
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The Alternative Building Sourcebook :...
by Steve K. Chappell(Editor)
Environmental Building News, April 1998
The SOURCEBOOK is unique among green building guides in its exclusive focus on natural building methods, such as strawbale, clay infill, cob, thatch and timber framing. Useful information on associated products, services, and... |
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Alternative Construction: Contemporary...
by Lynne Elizabeth(Editor), Cassandra Adams(Editor)
This is the first comprehensive guide to the "natural" construction practices that are gaining popularity within the sustainable design community and mainstream construction throughout the world. Each chapter covers a.. |
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Alternative Housebuilding
by Michael McClintock, Mike McClintock
A detailed explanation of non-stick-frame house building The author explains building with logs, timbers, pole-frames, cordwood and mortar, and stone and mortar. |
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Complete Book of Cordwood Masonry...
by Rob Roy Combining the techniques of the author's previous two classic books, CORDWOOD MASONRY HOMES and EARTHWOOD, plus a decade of new information, new lessons to avoid pitfalls, and new ideas, this book offers a complete update on..
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The Passive Solar House (Real Goods Independent Living Books)
by James Kachadorian
This book offers a technique for building homes that heat and cool themselves in a wide range of different climates, using ordinary building materials available anywhere and with methods familiar to all building contractors. |
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LISTEN TO WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS SAY: |
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"We always enjoy showing off our project. It has turned out to
be better than we ever imagined a home could be. Goshen did an excellent job of
taking our ideas and building them into our plans. Our house is a small frame,
but the quality and high level of craftsmanship is readily apparent."
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Tom and Karen, SC |
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CONTACT US: |
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Goshen Timber Frames
37 Phillips Street
Franklin, NC 28734
Phone: (828) 524-8662
Fax: (828) 369-3605
info@goshenframes.com |
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