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| Timber Frame of the Month: Illinois Home | |
 Trillium Dell Timberworks built this Rushville, Illinois timber frame home for a family of four. Trillium Dell Timberworks is a custom design/build timber frame shop. In this frame, we sawed the timbers on our Woodmizer bandsaw, followed by planing on our four-sided Weinig Profimat 45. The frame was sourced from local, selectively harvested stands of timber and contains a natural mix of native timbers. We hand-cut this frame out of white oak and complimentary white ash rafters, walnut knee braces and honey locust floor joists. Architectural drawings were provided in-house by our creative and experienced design and engineering team. We installed the frame, along with energy efficient wall and roof SIP's panels. Pine tongue and groove sheathing was factory applied to the underside of the roof SIPs, creating a finished vaulted ceiling. The white oak timber frame porch welcomes visitors.
We here at Trillium Dell Timberworks believe in building a home to meet your current and future needs. We want you to have your own home designed for you by you - unique. Please stop in our shop or call us at 309.289.7921. You can also visit our website or "friend" our Facebook page! |
| Great Read for Timber Frame Enthusiasts | |
Green Beginnings: The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home
by Avrim Topel by BookSurge Publishing
Paperback ~ Release Date: 2008-12-02 
List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $19.95 Buy Now |
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3 Great Christmas Tree Alternatives | |
Looking for a great Christmas Tree that dazzles with holiday spirit? Check out these alternatives to the traditional Tree:
 Recycled Cardboard Tree - by Cascades
"Cascades' 100% recycled cardboard Christmas tree, with its elegant design and its thousand-and-one decorating opportunities, is available in three models. Bringing people together and eco-responsible, this tree will add a touch of magic to your Holiday Season."
Choose from three colors(printed (as shown), white and green). Starting at $24 "This unique 7' pre-lit fir is inverted to ensure a smaller footprint for less-spacious areas, and allowing more room for the accumulation of presents underneath. Originally designed for specialty stores to display delicate ornaments using a minimum of floor space, the unusual tapering shape allows the tree to stand in places that do not accommodate a traditional holiday tree, such as between two armchairs or in a corner." PossibiliTreeŽ wooden trees are a natural alternative to live and artificial Christmas trees. Compact, light-weight, portable, easy to assemble and easy to store, these architect-designed trees are available in tabletop and suspended models.
Choose from two colors (walnut (as shown) and birch). Starting at $195 |
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Decorating the tree and wrapping presents are the fun part of the holiday season. The clean-up? Not so much. Where can you recycle your tree? Will your local recycling center take that old strand of lights or those broken ornaments? Earth911.com can help make your clean-up easier and more eco-friendly by providing a list of local recycling centers that will accept all your Holiday leftovers. All you have to do is enter the item you're looking to recycle (gift bags, Christmas trees, used toys, etc.) and your city and state. |
| About the Timber Frame Business Council | |
Established in October 1995, the Timber Frame Business Council (TFBC) was created as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality, integrity and marketability of the timber frame industry. TFBC is committed to strengthening and advancing the business, communications and research capabilities within the timber frame industry.
Using its most traditional definition, timber framing is a specific type of post and beam construction in which a frame is created from solid wood timbers that are connected by several types of interlocking wood joinery including mortise and tenon, dovetails or scarfs secured with hardwood pegs.
Timber frames are enclosed using several methods. While traditional timber frames were typically in-filled (between the posts and beams) with various mixtures of clay, straw, lime and other regionally available materials, contemporary frames use several methods that effectively enclose the timber frame and allow the timbers to remain exposed to the interior of the building. Timber framing is a building system which lends itself well to both residential and commercial construction over a broad spectrum of architectural styles such as; traditional, rustic, modern, southwestern, oriental and colonial to name a few. Timber framing integrates well with many other building systems and materials, such as; structural insulated panels, log systems, engineered wood products, concrete and conventional stud framing. |
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| | The Timber Frame Business Council is a non-profit trade association dedicated to putting you in touch with North America's best timber framing professionals. Please consider hiring a TFBC member for your next building project! And, remember, to stay "In Touch"!
Sincerely,
Pam Hinton, Executive Director
Timber Frame Business Council |
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Gettysburg, PA 17325 USA
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The 7-Foot Upside-Down Pre-Lit Christmas Tree - by 
