Great Room Timber Trusses

Great room timber trusses...

for the Kay Project in New York State. Decorative in nature and built with douglas fir timbers. Traditional joinery in a modified king post style.

Beautiful! Thinking about a great room timber frame addition? Big or small, call Vermont Timber Works (or click) ! 802-886-1917

Timber Frame Homes / The GREAT Room.

This timber frame home features a classic saltbox design with native hemlock timbers and traditional joinery.

The great room tends to be the focal point in the timber frame design. This one is very pretty.

Love the contrast between the light walls and the weathered timbers. Great job Vermont Timber!

Taking a break for Kramer...

from cone head to fancy pants t-shirt wearer, Kramer has adjusted nicely.

It's a dogs life!

Vermont Timber Works, Inc.

36 Fairbanks Road, North Springfield, VT 05150
802.886.1917
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Christmas Time in your Great Room

Have you ever been watching one of the Christmas shows with the family sitting around their 20' tall, decorated Christmas tree in their Great Room. The timber posts wrapped in greenery and mistle toe hanging from one of the beams and you say to yourself what a beautiful room. Well even though some things in the movies are not real, having your own Great Room is. Let us here at VTW give you a timber frame home that will make you feel like you are in the movies.

Bring on the snow, we'll gather in the timber great room!

Somebody crank up that wood stove, we have SNOW in the forecast! Nothing is better than relaxing on the couch while your wood stove (or fireplace) warms your timber frame.

The wood beams create a warmth on their own, but you need more than that in New England!

Watching a movie, reading a book, entertaining friends and family, the timber great room is the place to be.

Vermont Timber Works, Inc. 36 Fairbanks Road, North Springfield, VT 05150.

Does your Great Room have Timber Trusses?

Does your great room look like this? Douglas fir king post trusses, beautiful wrought iron chandeliers and a centrally located stone fireplace?

Would you like it too? If so, don't delay. Call or stop by Vermont Timber Works and let's get started on your custom designed timber great room. I'll even tell you where to get your hands on that chandelier!

Vermont Timber Works, Inc.

36 Fairbanks Road

N. Springfield, VT 05150

802-886-1917

email us!

Timber Truss Designs 1

Hand Hewn Timber Trusses with Arched Beams.

This incredible hand hewn timber frame is in Alpena, Michigan. Arched timber trusses create the great room area.
At Vermont Timber Works, we work closely with our clients, their contractors and their architects.
In house engineering insures that your great room timber trusses will hold up your world. (if need be).

the greatest rooms need custom designed timber trusses...

Well, at least that what we recommend @ Vermont Timber Works, Inc. even Kramer agrees :)

Vermont Timber Works custom designs, engineers and hand crafts heavy timber roof trusses. We work on all kinds of projects from residential great rooms to churches to hotels, horse barns, commercial buildings and more! While all our timber trusses look decorative, most are actually structural and carry heavy roof loads.
We use traditional mortise and tenon joinery held with hardwood pegs and decorative steel plate connections with heavy bolts. Steel joinery is available (Teddy Bears are EXTRA).

Decorative Timber Ceiling Beams & A Mountain View.

Douglas Fir timber ceiling beams and a gorgeous mountain view.

It doesn't get much better than that.

Vermont Timber Works, 36 Fairbanks Road, N. Springfield, VT 05150

Call us...802-886-1917

Email us or stop by!

We are happy to talk with you about your heavy timber project.

King Post Truss Design / Welcome CADWork to Vermont Timber Works.

This 3d king post truss rendering is courtesy of Doug and our new CAD software. CADwork. Check is in the mail, we own it!

Doug is working on Westbrook Middle School preliminary shop drawings, and Pete is detailing our Neely Residence.

So far, Pete seems to having a little more fun than Doug with our new program. Soon all of our timber projects will be drawn and detailed in CADWork.

Vermont Timber Works, hand crafted timber trusses, custom designed & engineered for Commercial, Residential & Religious Buildings.

start with a sketch/ Great Room Timber Trusses

Your great room design may start with a idea, like adding timber trusses. Something like this?

This timber truss design is shown below in a structural nature, see the steel tie rod? Purely decorative with out the steel (i.e. NOT holding the roof up). Hand hewn eastern white pine, with curved beams and corbels at the wall.

Vermont Timber Works custom designs and builds Great Room Trusses (among our many talents). 802-886-1917

Great Room and a Great Weekend

How about taking the long weekend and start planning your great room addition? I think that is a GREAT idea.

I have a timber truss project planned for my personal great room addition. Doug has given me a sketch and I can't wait to get started. Since my home is conventional framed, I feel the great room can't be a full timber frame. Transitioning needs to well thought out, as I may need to add timber accents to the existing areas.

If you are planning a great room addition or a timber frame addition of any kind, give a call. We would love to hear from you. 802.886.1917

Now this is a GREAT ROOM!

Double chorded scissor trusses and a steel super structure make this timber truss design work. Douglas Fir timber was chosen for its strength and beauty.

Vermont Timber Works is able to design, engineer and hand craft timber trusses for all size great rooms. The conference center shown above has a 60ft span!
For more info please give a call, 802-886-1917 or email us.

Great Room Timber Frame Additions

Thinking about adding a GREAT ROOM to your home? How about a timber frame great room from Vermont Timber Works?

The traditional hammer beam bents shown above are buttressed (if you know what that means, then you know why it's important)!

King post timber trusses with a central stone fireplace makes quite a statement. Interested? Many designs and ideas are available, please give a call to discuss. 802-886-1917.

Reclaimed & Hand Hewn WHITE OAK Beams

Reclaimed & Hand Hewn White Oak Timbers...hard to come by and even harder to work with...

These antique timbers are ready for cutting...traditional joinery of course. Mortises are punched with a mortising machine, pockets up to 2" deep are cut with a router. Dovetails and tenons are cut with saws and chisels, ready Mike? Ready Kellin?
The 1st step in cutting a timber frame is the layout of the joints...Tom has been in charge of the Davis phase II layout. Thank you Tom, we know it's hasn't been easy!

Decorative Timber Beams...

Take a look at these hand hewn maple beams (great job MJ)! Decorative timber beams that will create a mantle on a project in Brooklyn, NY. 10ft across the front, and then 2 5ft pieces mitered at the corners as returns. I'm sure this is going to be something else.The hand hewn beams will arrive on jobsite with out a stain as they are going to be custom finished to match the kitchen cabinetry.Thanks to Carmel at Bjorn Bjornsson Design for thinking of Vermont Timber Works for this custom mantle project!

Great Room Hammer Beam Trusses...

OUR very own Todd is delivering the Farmer Residence Great Room Trusses this morning. Vermont Timber Works 5th wheel all loaded up and on the road early. The 4 great room trusses will be assembled from with in the residence (don't worry, we pre-fit everything) and raised with lifts. Hammer Beam Trusses in Douglas Fir Timber, look for photos soon!


Here is a beautiful example of our modified hammer beam truss design...

MORE Great Room Trusses in Douglas Fir Timber

These douglas fir timbers will soon be a modified hammer beam truss, installed in a beautiful Connecticut home. 4 Great Room Trusses to be exact.

Can you picture it? Vermont Timber Works very own MJ and Todd sand and finish the douglas fir timbers before any assembly begins. Imagine trying to stain the trusses after the assembly, no thank you.

Before the stain...
And after. Our clients chose Minwax # 225 Red Mahogany, I think they'll love it.


Below is a typical sketch that we send our clients with our preliminary proposal. Official timber frame shop drawings and engineering begins once an order has been placed.

time to ship some great room trusses

Many times Vermont Timber Works can ship great room trusses fully assembled. This makes the install on job site much quicker and easier. MJ and Jason worked carefully with our GMH Transport driver and loaded 11 custom designed and handcrafted great room trusses.

Guiliano Trusses are douglas fir timbers and Artzt Trusses are eastern white pine timbers. Both joined with traditional mortise and tenon joinery.

Looks to be just about loaded, hey MJ, watch out for Ruby!

The truck loading experience usually includes watching out for Ruby (and Kramer) who both make a point of being in the way. Barking at the trucker the entire time!

Ready? Let's get these great room timber trusses on the road.

Jason, stop goofing around!

The Katonah Memorial Bathhouse TRUSSES are in!

Another beautifully done commercial timber frame project to share with all of you. The Katonah Memorial Bathhouse Timber Trusses are in and the finish work looks to be just about complete. Location is Bedford, NY.

Vermont Timber Works, coordinating with George Rosamond of Lothrop Associates Architects and Peter Camilli & Sons brought this building back to life. The beautiful douglas fir timbers and turned columns carry an FSC Certification (because forests matter).

Douglas Fir Great Room Trusses

Here we have another beautiful douglas fir timber truss for the Guiliano Residence. Traditional joinery, hardwood pegs cut flush and take a look at those finials. It took more than Kellin and Jason to stand this truss up!

Douglas fir in free of heart spec, planed & chamfered timbers, just gorgeous. Heavy timber construction and timber trusses are not often referred to as furniture...but what the craftsmen at Vermont Timber Works create is awfully close.

This will be a wonderful addition to the Guiliano great room.

Heavy Timber Trusses

King post truss design with extended top chords and an arched bottom chord, traditional joinery, gorgeous!

MJ, Kellin and Todd stand this beautiful douglas fir truss up, just to get a picture...Thanks guys!

Vermont Timber Works custom designs and ships trusses like this one across the country. Many times fully assembled which is a wonderful option.

from an idea, to a sketch, to reality...the great room truss.

At Vermont Timber Works we are able to take your ideas and turn them into reality. What you may receive from us initially is a sketch. You tell us if you like it, and then we continue on from there.
The modified hammer beam truss makes many timber great room dreams come true!
This modified hammer beam design works well for timber great rooms, pool houses, conference rooms, etc. Many are douglas fir trusses with or with out timber posts.

802.886.1917
Vermont Timber Works, Inc.