Mountain Timber Design opened in 1997 in Golden, Colorado, offering very elegant and unique timber frame custom home designs. I have worked throughout the country on very special projects involving exceptional sites and adventurous clients who are taking on a unique build, often at some distance. Some of these homes have appeared in magazines, a book, and even on the Discovery Channel.
I design beautiful houses. Working mostly but not entirely in the West, I have designed timber framed homes exclusively and directly for individual clients for over twenty years now. These clients typically find me as they are searching for an independent architect who can work with these systems and perform high level design. I like people and enjoy taking time to understand my clients and their house goals.
I find the smallest detail spilled by clients can lead to the greatest understandings. My architectural styling is a blend of unique and elegant timber framing, usually incorporating softly curved elements, with modern contemporary neat and efficient floor planning, focusing on the site itself opening up chosen views and using natural lighting.
I design beautiful houses. Working mostly but not entirely in the West, I have designed timber framed homes exclusively and directly for individual clients for over twenty years now. These clients typically find me as they are searching for an independent architect who can work with these systems and perform high level design. I like people and enjoy taking time to understand my clients and their house goals.
I find the smallest detail spilled by clients can lead to the greatest understandings. My architectural styling is a blend of unique and elegant timber framing, usually incorporating softly curved elements, with modern contemporary neat and efficient floor planning, focusing on the site itself opening up chosen views and using natural lighting.
Services
MTD designs custom timber frame homes, often on difficult sites, and usually some distance away.
These homes use pre-cut timber frame systems using traditional mortise & tenon joinery fastened with wood pegs.
The frames are enclosed by either a pre-fabricated SIP system for the walls and roof, or a shell built with conventional wood framing.
The nature of this type of project is to design the house, provide working drawings for the final house set, and drawings for the benefit of all the other players to begin their drawings from.
These homes use pre-cut timber frame systems using traditional mortise & tenon joinery fastened with wood pegs.
The frames are enclosed by either a pre-fabricated SIP system for the walls and roof, or a shell built with conventional wood framing.
The nature of this type of project is to design the house, provide working drawings for the final house set, and drawings for the benefit of all the other players to begin their drawings from.
I was born in California but grew up coast to coast in a Navy family.
My father was career Navy and we moved often, so I learned to adapt to life and new places, making new friends along the way every one or two years.
My formative school and college years were spent in Southern California in the 60's and 70's where I surfed and had hair.
It sounds awful, but I went to college In San Diego (UCSD) adapting to beach living in La Jolla and North San Diego County.
I miss those days.
Four years later, armed with a degree in Political Science, I found myself qualified to get a job as a beginning framer, so I bought a hammer and started working, ultimately becoming a pretty good carpenter, and worked hard doing everything from framing to finish work for the next several years.
My father was career Navy and we moved often, so I learned to adapt to life and new places, making new friends along the way every one or two years.
My formative school and college years were spent in Southern California in the 60's and 70's where I surfed and had hair.
It sounds awful, but I went to college In San Diego (UCSD) adapting to beach living in La Jolla and North San Diego County.
I miss those days.
Four years later, armed with a degree in Political Science, I found myself qualified to get a job as a beginning framer, so I bought a hammer and started working, ultimately becoming a pretty good carpenter, and worked hard doing everything from framing to finish work for the next several years.
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