Timber Frame Cabin
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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Mark van Roojen on 03 Jan 2008 at 6:54 pm #
Thanks for linking to my site. It looks like you’ve got some nice links here to other small house resources, as well as nice stuffin the postings themselves. I’ve only had time for a quick look, but I liked the reprinted article on the small log cabin and will spend some more time later looking at your other postings.
the timber-framed cabin project, mark van roojen at materialicious on 07 Jan 2008 at 10:38 am #
[...] Mark van Roojen, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, has a nice site detailing his design and construction of a small 10 x 14 timber frame cabin on his property in the back woods of Wyoming, the frame of which he created in his backyard at home in Nebraska… Lots of info and photos, very inspiring. Found on Tiny House Blog. [...]
Tiny House Blog » North Idaho Timber Frame Cabin on 19 Feb 2008 at 3:16 pm #
[...] cabin is still in progress similar to Mark van Roojen’s project in Wyoming that we covered on an earlier [...]
Chris on 05 Dec 2008 at 12:55 pm #
Your web site is the best I have seen for small houses and cabins. I have searched for over a year. My hats off to you. Cant thank you enough. Please dont ever take it down
Chris
Michigan
chrisga@prodigy.net
Kent on 05 Dec 2008 at 8:58 pm #
Thanks Chris for your kind words!
Mark van Roojen on 13 Dec 2008 at 12:04 pm #
Thanks for updating your page on my project! Obviously since I thought it worth putting on the web I like it that people get to see the work. One funny thing about a cabin is that the early photos are the ones that are most impressive because they show something arising from nothing. But then later, more detail oriented photos are just not as telegenic even if the work to make the details is just as challenging. That’s my backhanded way of apologizing for the less striking photos as the project moves along.
And thanks also for collecting the other projects from which we can all steal ideas.
Oak Garages on 28 Jan 2009 at 4:13 am #
Excellent!!!!!!!!!
Your blog is very interesting regarding construction of tiny houses.
Gary on 29 Jan 2009 at 7:31 am #
Very nice. Wish I had the knowledge/ability/patience to construct a timberframe. Every one I have seen here is very nicely done.
Mark, keep up the website. Very interesting read.
Whit on 19 Feb 2009 at 12:33 pm #
Nice story! I like to read about small house design and making the most of the space.
Mark van Roojen on 28 May 2009 at 9:00 pm #
FWIW, my website is moving to http://www.mvr1.com.
The timberframe pages are at http://www.mvr1.com/timberframing/timberframecabin.html .
In case I mistyped (I do that) go to the main page and follow the links there.
Thanks for posting about my cabin!
best,
MArk
Kent on 28 May 2009 at 9:53 pm #
Hi Mark – Sorry I forgot to change the link, it is done now…Kent
Mark van Roojen on 29 May 2009 at 8:30 am #
Thanks Kent! I appreciate it. And your keeping up a cool web resource like this one.
best,
Mark