Over the years we’ve had a great deal of fun working with boathouses and with Leif Kallquist of Holmes King & Kallquist Architects in Syracuse, New York. This frame was built with recycled heart pine timbers and Ornamental metal post bottom pulled downs.

This residence on Conesus Lake utilizes its porch to both welcome visitors and offer shade and an area to rest on hot summer days.

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

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

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

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

This timbered loggia and rear porch, constructed of kiln dried southern yellow pine, faces due east and looks out onto Canandaigua Lake. This project is being completed with our friends at Patrick Constructors.

Crafted of a single 20” wide plank of reclaimed antique Chestnut, this entertainment unit adds a sense of refined panache to the monolithic reclaimed stone blocks which frame the fireplace in this Cayuga Lake timber framed great room.

This home for John and Carol was built in the Finger Lakes a few years back, and used barn siding to help it find its new place within the agrarian landscape it now inhabits. We used a consistently red hew of weathered board for a slightly warmer feel.

When we built George and Priscilla Slocum's home on Cayuga lake, we loved George's suggestion of a nautical theme, both in respect to the waterway, and to his ancestor Joshua Slocum, the first man to solo circumnavigate the planet. The home was recently featured in the fall issue of Wood Design & Building magazine entitled, “Lighthouse Home”.

This thoughtfully proportioned boathouse on Canandaigua Lake was design by Jack Sigrist of Architectural Innovations of Pittsford, New York.

Brian and Silke Ernisse combined bold colors and weathered siding on their house overlooking Lake Ontario.

Often times we preassemble large sections on the ground and use a crane to lift them as a single unit. The roof of a light tower is lifted up to waiting timber framers on a recent raising in Mendon, New York.

This frame will one day take its place high on the cliffs of Canandaigua Lake.

Nestling this home into the hillside allows a sense of intimacy to the welcoming uphill side while opening up the back of the home to lake vistas beyond. Designed by New Energy Works.

Pricilla and George enjoy lake views from their authentic timber frame lighthouse complete with a U.S. Coast Guard beacon and 360 degree views.

Overlooking one of the Finger Lakes, construction of this timber frame home considers the landscape by respecting the site’s slope and carefully maintaining existing dogwood trees. The southern exposure is managed with an eyebrow dormer and carefully placed vertical windows to minimize solar heat gain and light glare from the lake.

Here are two structures with entirely different roles, connected by the continuity of their design and a thoughtful site plan. Architecture by Design Works.

Nautical hardware on a lake home’s double storage doors.

These hand-hewn, antique timbers were probably felled in the early 1800s. After nearly two centuries of service as barn timbers, they were brought back to our shop, cleaned, and recut to support this cozy, lakeside cottage for another millennium, or two.

Modest but welcoming front porches of timber can introduce additional timber on a home’s interior.

This existing cottage on Keuka Lake is getting a new face and some new exterior living spaces to be enjoyed by the owners and their extended family.

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