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See Home Show Zen Dens w/Fish Starlight & More!

By | 2017-10-18T14:09:11+00:00 October 18th, 2017|Uncategorized|

An outdoor living space is a smart way to inhale healthy energy into your home life. The Zen Den of perfection was the focus of Western Timber Frame’s Fall 2017 Home and Garden Show. Here a few of the highlights in the spotlight at this year Home and Garden show. There is a significant size difference in the two ShadeScape™ pavilions displayed on the main floor. For myself, until placed side by side, it is difficult to picture precisely or compare how they feel and look. It was great to be able to experience them both in the same setting. ShadeScape™ pavilion features an extended roof that can be for aesthetics, the extendsion of shade, or to protect a designated area such as  a barbecue grill etc. Pictured below is the view below the extended roof. ShadeScape™ [...]

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Go Up for a Gorgeous Landscape Design

By | 2017-10-10T17:17:36+00:00 October 13th, 2017|Timber Arbors|

Go upwards for a gorgeous landscape design! Vertical space is one of the more stunning but often overlooked elements of design. Going up brings a flat, two-dimensional yard and transcends it into a new dimension. A timber frame ShadeScape™ DIY Arbor Kit can be installed in just a few hours, as this barbecue grill arbor was. Trees, large shrubs or vines can create focal points or act as a canopy over a large area, and so can outdoor shelters. It does not have to be as large as a gazebo, pavilion, or pergola, however. An arbor or trellis can add so much with very little. Also, an arbor does not need to be watered and can enhance the surrounding vegetation with the warmth and color of the solid wood. A garden arbor or trellis typically cover a walkway, guide or entryway. Arbors [...]

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6 Post Monolithic Pergola w/Sunken Fire Pit

By | 2017-10-11T17:12:34+00:00 October 11th, 2017|Pergola Kits|

Installing a new, timber frame DIY pavilion, pergola or gazebo is exciting to experience with years of rewards for the family to enjoy any and every day. As beautiful as a Western Timber Frame™ ShadeScape™ DIY pergola kit is, are the families we have had the privilege of creating these outdoor living rooms for. It is a pleasure to work on projects with people that share the same ethic vision, enriching life in quality time with family and friends. The Bryan family, William, Patty and their sweet puppy, Mia (pronounced MEE-ah), were so welcoming, it feels like coming home, in their backyard. Very shy, but congenial the Bryan's allowed me photograph some of their beautiful family enjoying this favored family gathering place. As much as the focus is to feature a new project, the family's we get to know become a part of [...]

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GET FREE Tickets to the 2017 Deseret News Home Show in Sandy, Utah (Oct 13 – 15)

By | 2017-10-09T14:34:18+00:00 October 9th, 2017|Uncategorized|

FREE Homeshow Tickets to the: Deseret News Home Show! (Oct 13 - 15, 2017)  Send us your mailing address and we will mail your FREE tickets ASAP. Please Send us ALL requests for tickets by Wednesday October 11th at 10:00am.* *Any ticket requests submitted via email after 10:00 am 10/12/17 MST will not be sent. Note: You can still save $3 on admission to the home show, Western Timber Frame! Buy tickets now at SaltLakeTribuneHomeshow.com with promo code: TIMBER

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Yes, More Sunlight w/Targeted Shade

By | 2017-10-06T14:37:10+00:00 October 9th, 2017|Pergola Kits|

A well-designed pergola will provide the right amount of sunlight as well as shade for the area it is intended. Western Timber Frame™ offers Design Managers who can equate how much shade and where it will be at any time of the day or month of the year. In almost every project, the standard shade plank spacing is best for comfort. This project is an exception and needed more sunlight and less shade. Today’s featured Pergola Kit is a ShadeScape™ 8000 Series Pergola with 2x2 shade planks, letting in more sunlight while providing the much-needed shade in the porch area for the desired time of day. At the top and bottom of each post is decorative post skirts that set this pergola apart, beautifully done in the Canyon Grey finish. Pergolas are designed to allow in the sunshine while providing shade. The standard sun to shade ratio for most [...]

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Impressive Lines Easy-2-Install Shade

By | 2017-10-06T12:53:47+00:00 October 6th, 2017|Pergola Kits|

Contemporary Style ShadeScape™ DIY Pergola Kit, easily installed in a few hours, one morning! The ShadeScape™ Pergola Kit is finished the beautiful, Rich Sequoia, an eye-catching color that creates a showpiece in any yard.  The combination of the color choice with sharply-defined, straight lines is what makes this pergola so impressively inviting, perfect for an entryway. While thinner lines convey more of a delicate quality of elegance,  thicker lines emphasize boldness, stableness, and strength. Horizontal lines, parallel with the horizon look as though they are resting or lying down and suggest to the mind relaxation, comfort calm and quiet. Vertical lines, perpendicular to the horizon accentuate height, energy communicating a feeling of grandeur and spirituality. When the vertical lines are thick they accentuate height and energy. The taller they are the more formal and impressive, giving a sense of [...]

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Family Affordable DIY Outdoor Living Shelters

By | 2017-09-28T17:18:27+00:00 September 28th, 2017|Pergola Kits|

In the evening, a timber shade shelter creates a luxurious outdoor living area. It is a place to converse where everyone feels at ease and children can joyfully run free. Arising early to witness the first glimmer of light as it unveils a showcase of colors, the mind can think clearer. It is a peaceful place to sip your morning drink and enjoy your breakfast. Western Timber Frame™ is a Utah-based manufacturer of beautiful oversize DIY outdoor living timber shelter kits that have truly set them apart. A reverential awe of a sky kissed with 150 to 200 foot stately Douglas-Fir trees innately resonates through the anatomy of these massive pergola timbers. These ShadeScape™ DIY pergola “kits” are not a typical “cookie cutter” pergola kit. Each ShadeScape™ is customizable in shape, size, and features but at a kit price. Hyrum Thompson and his son-in-law Bradley Lavery [...]

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Oh Wow! Radius Beams Stunning Pergola!

By | 2017-09-11T19:52:56+00:00 September 11th, 2017|Pergola Kits, Timber Pergolas|

The human spirit has always enjoyed the unique, the surprising, something new to delight and awaken the mind. 21st Century technology has paved the way for free-spirited architects to expand beyond the rules of the vernacular architecture allowing for design styles, which stand alone. Your judgment in style and taste, and how you want to use your backyard, is what matters most in preparing to design a functional landscape. Exploring the richness of creativity and artistic imagination shared by others, literally available at our fingertips, it is easy to be inspired and feels more empowered in creating your unique outdoor environment, to your taste, in ways you may never have thought of before. The project in highlight today is a ShadeScape™ DIY Pergola Kit featuring radius beams. It was shipped to New York and installed by the homeowners for shade over their outdoor poolside kitchen. The [...]

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Deck w/Latticed Walls & DIY Pergola Kit

By | 2017-09-08T23:40:48+00:00 September 8th, 2017|Pergola Kits, Timber Pergolas|

What better way to enjoy the spectacular mountain top view of Utah Valley than from a comfortable deck sheltered by a timber frame pergola? Today’s featured DIY pergola kit is an 8000 Series ShadeScape™ with latticed privacy walls and deck providing a spacious and comfortable outdoor room. The latticed walls provide additional shade around the hot tub as well. The plans are not finished yet as Scott and his wife have more ideas. They intend on adding a fireplace at the end of the deck next to the hot tub area. An outdoor television will eventually hang in the corner able to be watched from both the dining room and hot tub. Breathing the clean, refreshing air with the quiet and peaceful solemnity of this covered deck, I am sure even the Swiss Alps can not beat, and travel is only footsteps away for our homeowners [...]

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Precise Sun Shade Ratio for Perfect Party Yard

By | 2017-09-05T16:01:22+00:00 September 5th, 2017|Pergola Kits, Timber Pergolas|

Thomas Jefferson, Americas Architect, designed and created a U-shaped connection of pavilions for the University of Virginia and wrote in a letter that England’s sunless climate was different than Americas. Said Jefferson, “under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium," our abode, our state of ideal happiness, our paradise. In the absence of shade, he continued, "no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.” An architectural shade structure, e.g., an awning, arbor or pergolas is a fast, permanent shade solution. A timber frame shelter is the best for permanence, speed, and comfort. Wood has its built-in natural thermostat. Just like a tree, the larger the dimensional scale of the wood the better it can regulate a thermal equilibrium for an amelioration of temperature. This perfect balance of comfort is found timber and not in any other alternative shade material. A [...]

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