Timber-Frame Resurrection

摘要

I spent the better part of two years working on this house, as well as a few other buildings on the five-acre property. The farm sits on the corner of a couple country roads outside Ashley, Indiana, and has been in the same family for over 100 years-my client is the fourth-generation owner. The goal of our work was to get it ready for another set of generations. Like most old farmhouses, this one had been remodeled a few times over the last century. Built sometime in the 1860s, the original portion of the house is timber-framed, and now contains the kitchen and the dining room. My crew and I made our way over every square inch of the place, including a half-story added to the timber frame in the 1870s, a rear addition likely done in the 1920s, and some work by the homeowner's father, who tore off and rebuilt the back section in 1995. In 2018, we gutted everything down to the studs, reconfigured the interior partitions, stripped the exterior, and added a garage. Our vision for the kitchen was to transform the central timber-frame section of the house into a two-story open volume.