Hybrid Timber Frame Construction

The hybrid timber frame design is a mix of timber frame elements and conventional stick framing.

Hybrid timber frame construction.

A hybrid timber frame home is a house that incorporates some timber structurally or decorative combined with conventional stick frame construction. A precisioncraft hybrid log and timber home blends two or more of our product lines to create homes with a distinct flare. This is accomplished by replacing traditional timber frame construction processes like handcrafted joinery with more efficient and cost effective modern processes like steel joinery and fasteners. Hybrid timber frame homes are becoming increasingly popular as more homeowners desire the craftsmanship of a timber frame home at a reduced cost.

Timber framed great rooms flow effortlessly into log walled dining rooms. As you can see this term is quite broad. Timbers a more expensive material can be reserved for high traffic public areas like your great room kitchen entryways porches decks dining room and master bedroom. Let s look at an example of how you can support a timber frame by using a conventionally framed 2x wall.

A hybrid by definition is a mixing of two elements to create something that was not there before. A hybrid timber frame typically combines traditional timber framing with conventional outdated stick built framing to minimize costs. However you can add timber to whatever area. All of these are considered hybrid timber frames.

Often the timber frame is featured in the main areas of the home particularly the great room and sometimes will include the kitchen and dining room. Hybrid timber framing is not typical framing there are myriads of nuances to working massive pieces of timber and metal into stunning works of art. The timbers a mix of white and red oak use traditional mortise and tenon joinery. Here we have a timber frame truss that bears directly on a 2 x 6 wall.