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From Vision to Reality: The Comprehensive Design Build Process with Collin Beggs Timber Framing
At Collin Beggs Design Build Timber Framing, we offer custom home design, timber framing throughout the country, and general contracting of complete homes in and around Bonner County, Idaho. For over twenty years, we have integrated the process of designing and building your home under one roof, with one team to create homes that become part of your family and legacy.
Dear Future Journeyman: Embracing the Craftsmanship Legacy
Explore the timeless art of craftsmanship and the enduring legacy it leaves behind in this article 'Dear Future Journeyman.' Discover the secrets to embracing this age-old tradition and how it can shape your own journey.
Sharing the Craft of Timber-Framing: A Journey of Cultural Exchange and Local Contribution
Craft has healed many of my own generational wounds and brought me back to spirit. We all need it, whether we know it or not. In the absence of hand-made things, our culture is lost. Just as connecting with our food brings greater meaning to our lives, so connecting with the people who make everyday items brings meaning to the things we use in day to day life.
The Remedy
Craft has healed many of my own generational wounds and brought me back to spirit. We all need it, whether we know it or not. In the absence of hand-made things, our culture is lost. Just as connecting with our food brings greater meaning to our lives, so connecting with the people who make everyday items brings meaning to the things we use in day to day life.
Immersed In Nature
Our ancestors were immersed in nature, and the intelligence of the outdoors resets our minds and bodies. From the earth we came and to the earth we will return. And so my homes are filled with stones that spill from the river, natural slate back splashes that mimics the mountains outside, and seamless compositions of stone, earth and timber.
Nordic Nirvana
We are honored to be featured in this summer's issue of Sandpoint Magazine with a wonderful home we built for some incredible clients.
Reflections Of Our Universe In Design And Craft.
We are all intimately connected to the universe. At each new sunrise we witness the eternal geometry of the sun as it rises clear of the Earth’s horizon and its light, in flight through space, enters our eyes and burns its image on our retinas. The sun, the Earth, and our eyes are all spherical and our irises are circular. Circularity is fundamental to movement.
Geometry: The gateway drug to an enriching life.
I had the honor to first meet and work beside Laurie Smith at the Medieval Geometric Workshop that took place in the Fall of 2008 at Cressing Temple, which is located between Witham and Braintree in Essex, England.
The best way to make a curved knee brace
When I'm making curved knee braces for our frames, rather than cut curves out of straight material, I procure trees that have grown with curves already in them. This means, first of all, that there is no short grain runout, which makes the brace stronger, and secondly it means that each knee brace is bespoke — original; beautiful.
Community, Conservation, and Craftsmanship
Something Jack A. Sobon once told me and I never forgot is that the goal in designing and building a home for a client is that the home will never be sold. A good home will become part of the family. People will change their jobs and their lives to keep a home that inspires them.
Raising The Bar
Craftsmanship is a word that gets tossed around by many people, but in most cases it does not actually apply to the built environment that we share. We have diminished the definition of craftsmanship to allow entry for anyone — and in doing so we have lost touch with what is possible with training and dedication.
The Joy Of Labor
People can argue about the benefits and drawbacks of various building systems, but one thing that's often left out is the joy of the craftsman and how that translates to the homes that are created and the communities they inhabit.
Shelter from the storm
A home is your sanctuary and your protection from the natural elements. Sometimes those elements dish out more than is expected. Last night, Sandpoint, Idaho, and its surrounding areas suffered wind storms that knocked out electricity and damaged many homes, primarily due to trees falling on them.
Working with green wood
As a craft tradition, Timber Framing has utilized green wood — in this case, meaning freshly-cut or still living — since its inception. Throughout the ages, carpenters refined a system of joinery to work with live wood. Joinery, as the name suggests, is a method of bringing and holding timbers together.