Dave, from Pioneer Millworks, uncovered this piece of history while salvaging an old barn, long past its prime. An ironic find considering the 1939 World's Fair was the first expo to explore "the world of tomorrow". For info on the wood countertop, call us!

Testament to the kind of customer service we're known for, one of our Alaskan prospects sent a basket filled with local goodies to thank the team for their attentiveness and hard work in pulling together designs and estimates for his Alaskan timber frame home.

A cabin in the woods for Dave and Kate and their wonderful kids and extended family gets a lot of use throughout the year on land that has been in the family for many years. The timbers were cut off the land itself.

Will is the one timber framer we can count on to take great photos at our job sites. When he’s not working on timber frames, you can find him refinishing furniture or snowboard shredding on a snowy day.

A suggestion of Japanese influence is seen here in the smaller timber members and curved natural shapes for a master bedroom wing in a recent project in Mendon, NY. Our client supplied the cherry logs off of his own land for inclusion.

 

The tools of our work in the interior design department include many samples, plans and "story boards" which juxtapose proposed material and color to help enable the client to visualize more clearly.

This curved stairwell by NEWwoodworks made of fir and jarrah defines and embraces a landing that includes the dining area. The floor is made from reclaimed heart pine.

Heated games of Trouble warm the very souls of these rough and ready Pioneer Millworks guys.

This lakeside home includes a covered timber porch. The complex truss is consistent inside and out, and the truss at the wall includes glass cut to fit between the timbers themselves. This is best done with very stable wood like these salvaged and resawn Doug fir timbers.

Jered from Pioneer Millworks uses life-size samples to show different finish applications on various species in our Farmington shop.

This guest home on Lake Erie in western New York utilizes our classic curved bottom chord to soften the lines of our timber construction.

The 34-foot span on a home project for Jerry Argenio in New Windsor, New York, suggested combining glue laminated timbers for a curved bottom chord with other solid timber members.

Managing and celebrating sunlight in the final interior is one of our great challenges and opportunities. Here, bright shadows play across furniture and fireplace.

Reclaimed and milled heart pine timbers are stacked and numbered, ready to go as stair treads for a barn project in Maryland.

Cold and lots of snow encouraged a weekend voyage by some of our crew. Mike, Tanya, Alex and Megan (behind the camera) met at a popular sledding spot just around the corner from our shop. From what we can tell there was plenty of powder kicking around and we hear some wicked hills were tackled.

A mixture of redwood and steel are used in this slightly curved edged deck on a home built last year on Keuka Lake.

Steel and wood mix well for this leaning bar at a new restaurant in Portland, Oregon.

When David said he wanted to include natural elements, we didn't think he meant a tree off his land. Here we are fitting the tree to the resulting volumes of the timber frame itself.

Michael, one of our west coast architectural designers, has been working on the Vermont Street Project -- our LEED-H platinum show home in Portland, Oregon. For the next few weeks he’ll be visiting our New York office to work side-by-side with our east coast team.

Our American Gothic oak is used by Bloomingdales in New York City in their home furnishing department.

Jennifer’s son Liam teamed with Jered’s son Brayton to try out our new line of temporary New Energy Works and Pioneer Millworks tattoos. A week later, we’re wondering if they’re really temporary!

Bristol mountain ski patrol hut has been a continual source of comments for its cottage like proportions but welcoming elevations.

Part of the light tower at the Slocum residence is seen from looking up through the timber frame.

Our Malacca Straits flooring is milled from Indonesian packing material that comes to us from container ships from the Pacific Rim. So far we’ve found 38 different species.

Simple and classic lines suggest a thorough celebration of the view shed on this schematic design overlooking Canandaigua Lake.

A parallel chord truss serves as a structural purlin on this recently raised frame in Brockport, New York.

Jon and Bee Perkins sent us this image of their table setting just prior to a holiday gathering. When they asked us to design a dining room suite to go with their new home, they mentioned "briskly contemporary, with a top that seems to be floating." We combined steel, wood and leather in the final creation.

This contemporary structure by Holah Design of Portland, Oregon used redwood siding recycled from old wine vats on part of the exterior, reclaimed and milled by Pioneer Millworks.