I built this same frame from the Sobon plans last summer on a lot of raw land I got with my wife. It's a supremely satisfying building method in so many ways, the simplicity, longevity, locality of materials: mine just sits on some laid stacks of fieldstone I found on the land. I also met local people with timber frame experience through the process and it has led to some great relationships within the community where we bought the land.

I'm currently sitting comfortably inside the structure which I have almost finished enclosing this summer and fitting with some of today's less traditional amenities.