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From Vision to Reality: The Comprehensive Design Build Process with Collin Beggs Timber Framing

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.

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The best way to make a curved knee brace
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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.

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Community, Conservation, and Craftsmanship
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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.

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