Toms Timber Frames
Dansk

Timber frame houses

Full timber frames: a house to live in, a summer house, an annex, an inspiring workshop or a cabin. The frame is the building. Honest timber, visible joinery, no shortcuts.

Cabin in the woods

A small cabin for sleeping and staying, built from hewn logs. Inside there is a sleeping loft, a small kitchen, a sitting corner and a full bathroom. The covered porch has room for a long table.

Log cabin with a shingle roof standing in a clearing among birch trees
Cabin interior with a small kitchen under the sleeping loft and a ladder up
Kitchen under the sleeping loft.
Sleeping loft under the ridge with a made up bed and a small window
Sleeping loft under the ridge.
Sitting corner with a sofa by two small pane windows
Cabin bathroom with shower, toilet and washbasin
A full bathroom, plumbed and wired.
Covered porch with a wooden dining table, log wall and forest behind
The porch has room for a long table.
Hewn log corner joinery beside the front door
Corner joinery.

Summer house with a wood stove

Dark clad outside, light inside. A timber frame under a standing seam roof, with small pane windows, a covered porch and a wood stove for the cold months. The frame stays visible inside.

Summer house with dark stained cladding, standing seam roof and small pane windows
Summer house seen from the garden, covered porch at the gable end
Seen from the garden.
Covered corner porch with braced posts and a wooden bench
The covered porch.
Interior with a red wood stove, plastered walls and visible timber frame
The stove keeps it usable year round.
Roof joinery seen from inside, rafters and braces in pine
Roof joinery from inside.

Garden annex, raising day

An annex raised on screw piles, with a covered porch at one end. Everything was cut and test fitted before raising day.

Timber frame annex being raised, rafters up, frame standing on screw piles

How a frame is made

  1. 01

    Layout

    Every frame starts on the layout floor. Each timber is measured and marked against the drawing before a single cut.

  2. 02

    Scribing and joinery

    I scribe joints to fit each timber as it actually is, not as the drawing wishes it were. Mortise and tenon, cut with chisels and saws, helped along by modern Mafell machines.

  3. 03

    Raising

    The frame is test fitted in the workshop, taken apart, and raised on site. A good raising day is quiet work: everything fits because the joinery was right.