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House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
House Tree House
Phone:
+49 381 4582142

Address:
Wokrenter Strasbe 40, 18055, Rostock, Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, Germany

Timber framing and post-and-beam construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs. It is commonplace in wooden buildings from the 19th century and earlier. If the structural frame of load-bearing timber is left exposed on the exterior of the building it may be referred to as half-timbered, and in many cases the infill between timbers will be used for decorative effect. The country most known for this kind of architecture is Germany. Timber framed houses are spread all over the country. The method comes from working directly from logs and tree rather than pre-cut dimensional lumber. Hewing this with broadaxes, adzes, and draw knives and using hand-powered braces and augers and other woodworking tools, artisans or framers could gradually assemble a building. Since this building method has been used for thousands of years in many parts of the world, many styles of historic framing have developed. These styles are often categorized by the type of foundation, walls, how and where the beams intersect, the use of curved timbers, and the roof framing details.
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