Unique Timber Frame Home Design

Ferraro Builders and Woodhouse offer the finest timber frame homes and most comprehensive array of services you’ll find anywhere. Every detail of your timber frame construction experience is thoughtfully designed to provide superior satisfaction. Our timber frame homes are unique because each one is a reflection of its owners’ tastes and desires. Soaring timber frame homes are breathtakingly beautiful and can stand up to the challenges of time. Intricate joinery provides testament to the timber frame craft that spans the centuries. Cathedral-peaked great rooms, cozy nooks and country kitchens are brimming with possibilities. Each Woodhouse is enclosed with a foam-core structural insulating panel system, creating the ultimate environment of beauty, comfort and energy efficiency. Your Woodhouse will live up to every vision of your dream home.

The Time-Honored Legacy of Timber Frame Homes

Classic timber frame construction had its beginnings with some of man’s earliest dwellings. It has evolved through medieval structures, including a variety of European timber framing traditions, to Colonial American homes, and now can be found in the fully engineered craft of Woodhouse timber frames.

Breathtaking peaks, exquisite timbers and intricate wooden peg joinery create a warmth and charm unlike any other construction style. The timbers provide exceptional strength and durability. Still standing today are timber frame buildings that are more than 1,000 years old. Similarly our Woodhouse will be engineered to last through the generations. Woodhouse marries the building traditions of the past with the most advanced insulating technology in the world. In fact, all of the materials included in your Woodhouse package are of the highest quality, intended to provide unparalleled strength and longevity.

Your possibilities are endless! Timber frame construction can be adapted to virtually any style of home…traditional or contemporary, craftsman or Mediterranean, Colonial or rustic, Provincial or country. Ferraro Builders and Woodhouse will design a custom timber frame home to perfectly match your style.

We invite you to imagine the perfect timber frame home and let Ferraro Builders make your dream become a reality.

Ferraro Builders and Woodhouse offer building options to meet your budget. First is Smartwood_, our line of pre-designed timber frame home packages. Secondly is the “hybrid” timber frame home where, for example, the great room would be timber framed while other areas of the home are constructed of SIPs (structural insulating panels). Third is a custom designed and crafted Woodhouse featuring the finest materials and, of course, the highest level of service.

YOUR WOODHOUSE IS CUSTOM DESIGNED JUST FOR YOU. It is the pinnacle of all timber frame home designs and you are the most important feature. Your Woodhouse has the finest materials and the highest level of personal services and is the most complete package available.

EXTRAORDINARY BEAUTY. You choose the look you want; whether it is vaulted ceilings or more intimate spaces, both are created by the interlocking exposed timbers and employ fully housed, wooden pegged joinery. The frame is contrasted by drywall-plastered walls and ceilings or with tongue and groove wooden planks.

SUPERB QUALITY. Your timber frame home will be crafted with the finest timbers, finest quality windows and doors, the most energy efficient insulation system, and a professional Ferraro Builders team providing you with the highest level of service and support throughout.

CUSTOM DESIGNED. It is your home, designed the way you want it. Our design services begin with a site visit, concept sketches through six iterations of your drawings culminating in final construction drawings. Furthermore, our staff architect will supervise the implementation of your design though every step along the way.

COMPLETE PACKAGE. Woodhouse offers the most complete timber frame package available.

• Site visit and architectural interview
• Custom architectural plans ­ from foundation up
• First floor joist system ­ Wood “I” joists
• Timber frame ­ Red Oak, Douglas Fir, Eastern white pine, CNC precision crafted, hand finished and planed by our experienced joiners
• Second floor wood “I” joists over timber joists and beams
• Enclosure ­ Drywall or tongue and groove roof cladding and Murus_ brand polyurethane foam-core insulating panels R-28, 35, or 43
• Windows and doors ­ The finest windows and doors