A family home on a beautiful mountain site, overlooking Montpelier VT. Facing south with the garden and orchard site around and below, siting enhances the house's function and humbles it to the landscape.

The wedged through tenon not only stiffens the structural cage but adds interest, while the cove embellishment gives detailing and grace to the weight. With the lofts and the cupola, this frame in particular, has a nice balance between the intimate and the majestic. 

A quiet space in a house of four.

A timber frame"s continuity in form and practice in fact connects buildings and people to the past. Here, a version of the venerable "English Tying" joint found in barn just down the road works it's way into the bones.

With Insulated Panels and a standing seam roof  she's well on her way to being an efficient, and low maintenance building that will well serve those under her eaves.