Luke Sheneman from Idaho has been building a timber frame cabin for the last year and a half and has been documenting the progress at his blog located at: timbercabin.blogspot.com. I recently discovered it and Luke has given me permission to share a few of his pictures and share some information about his cabin with you.

The cabin is still in progress similar to Mark van Roojen’s project in Wyoming that we covered on an earlier post.

Luke started his quest back in September of 2006 when he began collecting information and also lumber for his timber frame. Most of his wood he is using is from downed trees in his area that he has collected and milled. If you click through his blog you can view this process.

In late April of 2007, Luke attended a timber framing workshop at Grand Oaks Timber Framing near Paris, Tennessee. Where they built a timber frame similar in size to what Luke planned to build. When he returned he fine tuned his plans and started milling his lumber.

August 2007 was the raising time for the frame and Luke gathered his friends and family together for an old fashioned cabin raising. Click here to see more pictures and a couple of videos.

Since than he has enclosed the and roofed the cabin and is waiting for spring to come so that he can put the finishing touches to his cabin. In the mean time he is working on furniture and doors, etc. so that when the snow clears he can add these items to the cabin.

Please look through Luke’s blog if you are serious about timber framing. It is very educational and the pictures speak a thousand words.

Timber Framing seems to be very popular in the tiny house blog. What other tiny house information would you like to see covered?

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24′x24′ Hennin Post & Beam Cottage Plans by Shelter Institute.

Perfect for a vacation cottage or for the full timer living the small house and less is more life style. If your considering a super-insulated timberframe that reflects your lifestyle and goals. Shelter Institute is an ideal place to start planning for a new timber frame. Pricing for the 24′x24′ Hennin Post & Beam Cottage starts at:

24′x24′pre-cut kit
$15,985
kit raising
3,065
SIP** Enclosure
19,895
Install SIPs
7,510
metal roofing
2,100
Install Roofing
1,800
24′x24′ Subtotal
50,355
Plus your foundation, permit costs, etc.

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In my search for more information on building tiny houses I stumbled across Mark van Roojen, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska and his project and construction of a small 10 x 14 timber frame cabin in the back woods of Wyoming. His information will give you first hand experience on what is involved in this type of construction. Following are a couple of pictures of his cabin and a link to his site

Mark van Roojen

Timber frame construction

Further progress.

The Timber-Framed Cabin Project

Mark says: I’ve started on a timberframed cabin project and I have been chronicling it here on my website. There are now too many images to put all on one page. So I have now divided it into five pages covering the following time frames. You can reach them by clicking on the link above or click Here.

If you know of other tiny house projects or have one of your own and would like to share it please post it in the comment section. Thank you!

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