Due to our focus on customization and creativity, Timber Creations can be very versatile in its applications. Trusses, houses, temples, and wineries tend to be our main focus, yet we welcome the occasional unique and unusual request. The National Park Service contracted us to do an attractive yet soft-spoken timber framed bus shelter in the middle of Yosemite Valley. The design concept was to have a structure that was beautifully crafted, yet subtle enough to not draw attention away from the park's natural beauty.
Basically, we were to create something significant, yet simultaneously, comparatively modest. T.C. Project manager Mark Sowers subsequently designed a handsome set of trusses with very humble embellishments and a minimum of flair. The whole assembly was given a very dark stain to approach a matching look with the dark paint of the rest of the park's structures and the surrounding environment. Hiding the natural look, grain patterns, and inherent beauty of these timbers is quite uncommon in timber framing, but helped to achieve the overall goal of subtlety.
Upon completion we received a note with these words:
"The National Park Service is very pleased with your company's performance...The finished product is beautifully crafted…….If we have other such work, we'll be calling Timber Creations."
Michael R. Wichmann, Project Manager N.P.S. 11-22-06
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1. THE PROJECT: Acting as the focal point of a large scale landscape plan, the Dillon trellis serves as a shaded patio for the pool, spa and barbeque area. Located in Calistoga California the landscape design was engineered by Jonathan Plant and Associates. By 2006 the ivy plants should provide a complete canopy over the frame.
2. MATERIALS: Bases on costs, availability and quality of material, the Dillon trellis uses clear B Western Red Cedar timber. The trellis was constructed with 10x10 posts, 10x12 plates and 3x8 rafters. The ridge beam is a 34’ 8x14, and contains two of the only knots we could find in this order of cedar supplied from Vancouver Island, Canada.
3. FINISH:Due to the plant canopy it was decided to leave the timber natural and to forgo stains, oils or other finishes that would require refinishing and maintenance. To insure an even weathering the TC rough-sawn texture was applied to the beams.
4. THE TOPPING OUT: In the image below, Mr. Dillon drives home the final trunnel of the frame and in doing so signals the beginning of the topping out fest. Each frame is blessed with a poem and a celebration of all the parties involved in the creation of the project, from designers and engineers to builders and owners.
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1. THE CHALLENGE: Located in a private valley in Marin county California, the pool house has views of the San Francisco bay. Project Architect, Herbert D. Kosovitz came to us requesting help with elimination of exposed metal brackets the structural engineer had specified in the plans. Upon review, we felt this was not only possible, but we could also help built the trellis and conceal all of the wiring required for the lights as well.
2. THE FRAME: The roof of the pool house is built with reclaimed Douglas fir timber. Its four valley rafters are 22’-8x14s and the jack rafters are 5x9s. Each jack rafter is fully housed into the ridge beams and the valley rafters. The walls were built with standard 2x6 stud frame construction; hence our work begins at the 8’ plate height, with the exception of the two center posts that support the main ridge beam. The ceiling is decked with rough-sawn, clear, vertical grain, Douglas fir, with a green tint Cabot stain.
Out side, the trellis is built with select heart redwood. The pergola (hipped structure shown at left) has an 8x10 band plate with interlocking joinery that holds the hip rafters from spreading; this allows the elimination of center supports and tie beams. 
With 4x8 rafters and 3x4 perlins the network of beams will eventually be covered with foliage. Lighting wires are concealed in the perlins and gas lines, for the heaters, are hidden in the 8x10 plates.
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1. PRELIMINARY DESIGN: Based on the trellis TC built for this Napa estate in 2003 the pool house is being designed with both traditional and modern elements. Chris Humann of East Bay Design and Architecture has been developing the plan in partnership with TC. The design is based on proportions and details of traditional Japanese teahouses blended with cutting edge materials and amenities.
2. THE FRAME: The frame will be build with clear Western Red Cedar. The joinery will be based on oriental designs, and the detailing will be based on work by Architects Charles and Henry Greene. We hope to have this project complete by the end August 2005.
3. LAYOUT: The frame footprint is only 12’ X 18’ however the space will provide an out-door shower, a changing and bathroom, a storage room and a small kitchenette.
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2. MATERIALS: Bases on costs, availability and quality of material, the Dillon trellis uses clear B Western Red Cedar timber. The trellis was constructed with 10x10 posts, 10x12 plates and 3x8 rafters. The ridge beam is a 34’ 8x14, and contains two of the only knots we could find in this order of cedar supplied from Vancouver Island, Canada.
3. FINISH:Due to the plant canopy it was decided to leave the timber natural and to forgo stains, oils or other finishes that would require refinishing and maintenance. To insure an even weathering the TC rough-sawn texture was applied to the beams.
4. THE TOPPING OUT: In the image below, Mr. Dillon drives home the final trunnel of the frame and in doing so signals the beginning of the topping out fest. Each frame is blessed with a poem and a celebration of all the parties involved in the creation of the project, from designers and engineers to builders and owners.
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THE DREVER POOL HOUSE
1. THE CHALLENGE: Located in a private valley in Marin county California, the pool house has views of the San Francisco bay. Project Architect, Herbert D. Kosovitz came to us requesting help with elimination of exposed metal brackets the structural engineer had specified in the plans. Upon review, we felt this was not only possible, but we could also help built the trellis and conceal all of the wiring required for the lights as well.
2. THE FRAME: The roof of the pool house is built with reclaimed Douglas fir timber. Its four valley rafters are 22’-8x14s and the jack rafters are 5x9s. Each jack rafter is fully housed into the ridge beams and the valley rafters. The walls were built with standard 2x6 stud frame construction; hence our work begins at the 8’ plate height, with the exception of the two center posts that support the main ridge beam. The ceiling is decked with rough-sawn, clear, vertical grain, Douglas fir, with a green tint Cabot stain.
Out side, the trellis is built with select heart redwood. The pergola (hipped structure shown at left) has an 8x10 band plate with interlocking joinery that holds the hip rafters from spreading; this allows the elimination of center supports and tie beams. With 4x8 rafters and 3x4 perlins the network of beams will eventually be covered with foliage. Lighting wires are concealed in the perlins and gas lines, for the heaters, are hidden in the 8x10 plates.
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NAPA POOL HOUSE
1. PRELIMINARY DESIGN: Based on the trellis TC built for this Napa estate in 2003 the pool house is being designed with both traditional and modern elements. Chris Humann of East Bay Design and Architecture has been developing the plan in partnership with TC. The design is based on proportions and details of traditional Japanese teahouses blended with cutting edge materials and amenities.
2. THE FRAME: The frame will be build with clear Western Red Cedar. The joinery will be based on oriental designs, and the detailing will be based on work by Architects Charles and Henry Greene. We hope to have this project complete by the end August 2005.
3. LAYOUT: The frame footprint is only 12’ X 18’ however the space will provide an out-door shower, a changing and bathroom, a storage room and a small kitchenette.
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