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Pavilions & Gazebos As You’ve Never Seen Them Before

By |2019-10-04T11:09:02+00:00October 3rd, 2019|Outdoor Living|

All-in-one ShadeScape® pavilion kit featuring an upper deck, metal railings, a diving platform, and a built-in waterfall for swimming poolside shade, and extra entertainment space.   Throughout history, gazebos, pavilions, and pergolas have served multi-purposes, beautifully, culturally, fascinatingly, symbolically, as well as spiritually. Today, most architectural shade shelters erected in the United States primarily are built to protect valuables, expand business space, give shade for outdoor living, and recreation. 1853 Artist Dulclere Cuncinotta Dancing Tarantella Beneath a Pergola Explore pavilions and gazebos from cultures around the globe, throughout the ages, as well as one designed for the future. From gazebos made of pure gold to pavilions covered in priceless ancient gems and ancient porcelain pots; you may never look at pavilions and gazebos quite the same again. TLTR • 21st Century Commerical, [...]

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10 Best Captivating Architectural Gazebos

By |2019-04-02T18:08:34+00:00October 2nd, 2019|Pergola Kits|

Gazebos lift the spirit and are among the most captivating and beautiful architectural structures in the world. The name gazebo - means a shelter gaze from - where like the garden pagoda, people can rest and enjoy the surrounding view. Today, we have built gazebos to serve for multiple purposes, such as a spacious public area, park bandstand, outdoor kitchens, kiosks, reception centers, and more. Although traditionally, gazebos are octagonal with a turret-shaped covered roof, each DFY or DIY Gazebo Plan we design is as unique as the function or individual it is intended for. A Sampling of Unique Gazebo Plan Designs #UniqueGazeboPlans Take a picture tour view of ten timber frame gazebos kits installed for a few of our ShadeScape® families across the United States. [...]

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Your Own Wedding Arbor Design – Your Love Story

By |2019-09-24T10:28:26+00:00September 23rd, 2019|Outdoor Party|

Create Your Own Wedding Arbor Create a truly unique wedding arbor, chuppah or mandap that is right for you. Your wedding day, there are so few days that are as sentimental or more beautiful than your wedding day. A timber frame arbor creates an impactful and elegant composition creating an obvious focal point for the bride and groom. The solid wood timbers are extremely easy and fun to adhere and attach with wedding decor. Douglas-Fir ShadeScape® Wedding Arbor w/Natural Finish Timber frame ShadeScape® wedding arbors, gazebos, pavilions, and pergolas are impressive architectural masterpieces enjoyed long after the ceremonies are over. ShadeScape® wedding arbors are timeless by design and will last for generations. Enjoy For Years To Come In all reality, your future great-great-grandchildren could be married beneath [...]

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Cool, Crazy, and Curious Tree Trivia

By |2019-10-11T07:20:46+00:00September 12th, 2019|Pergola Kits|

Trees power everything; they absorb movement from the earth and energy from the sun. We conserve energy with trees as well as converting and producing energy for human use. In essence, trees are a great big battery and continue to do give to us even after they are harvested. It is trees that give us the energy to walk, talk and breathe, not to mention the thousands of foods, medicines and other wonderful products we use single every day. Unlike other energy sources such as oil and coal which can be depleted and forever gone, trees are renewable and sustainable. Here at Western Timber Frame, we specialize in utilizing heavy timbers; solid wood timber shade structures, pergolas, gazebos, pavilions, arbors, and trellises creating the ultimate experience in outdoor living. ShadeScape® DIY Pergola Kit Diving Platform The ShadeScape® Series represents excellence in [...]

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The Question We Get Asked Most Often

By |2019-09-04T10:30:29+00:00September 4th, 2019|Pergola Kits|

The question we get asked most often is: How well do ShadeScape® timber frame shelters hold up against the wind? This is a great question that we look forward to answering because it gives us an opportunity to talk about our passion: building timber frame structures that will last for generations to come. #SolidWoodShadeShelter ShadeScape® pavilions, pergolas and gazebos are architecturally responsibly engineered for heavy snows, seismic shifting, and strong winds. We Live in a World of Recurrent & Perpetual Motion Architectural frameworks and immobile structures are considered to be solid and immobile, yet, we live on an earth, in an environment of recurrent and perpetual motion with seismic waves of micro motion moving up and down, as well as side-to-side. Interment weather also increases [...]

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24 Roof Ideas for Gazebos, Pergolas & Pavilions

By |2019-08-19T15:50:43+00:00August 16th, 2019|Pergola Kits|

The design of a roof on a timber frame pergola can really change the look and feel of the architecture which is really exciting. In many ways, it almost seems like the sky - not the roof- is the limit. Luckily, at Western Timber Frame™ you don’t have to just dream it in your mind as a Design Manager can give you a rendering of how that particular material or idea would look like. A roof is the uppermost part of a building that provides shelter and protection from the heat, rain, wind, a variety of weather conditions. The characteristics implemented in a roof depends upon the intended use of the architectural structure. For instance, a pergola or verandah is designed to admit only partial sunlight. A conservatory - on the other hand - has a solid glass or light emitting [...]

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One of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies

By |2019-08-14T13:52:12+00:00August 14th, 2019|Pergola Kits|

NEW YORK, August 14, 2019 – Inc. magazine today revealed that Western Timber Frame™, Inc. is No. 4959 on its annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses.The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Of the tens of thousands of companies that have applied to the Inc. 5000 over the years, only a fraction have made the list more than once. This is the 3rd year in a row that Western Timber Frame™ has made the Inc 5000 list.  We feel truly blest because of all the ShadeScape® families who have shared their expereice with [...]

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20 DIY Outdoor Kitchen & Bar Shelters

By |2019-08-14T11:56:41+00:00August 14th, 2019|Pergola Kits|

Designing and installing a shade shelter for an outdoor kitchen space is fast and easy with a ShadeScape® arbor, gazebo, pavilion or pergola kit. In most cases, a kit can be installed in as little as one afternoon. Life is more relaxed in the outdoors, and cooking with an outdoor kitchen bar or barbecue can add a finishing touch to your backyard entertaining space.  A timber frame shade shelter is also a practical way to maximize your space for any type of outdoor living.  For many, the backyard is a second kitchen, dining/living room or even a sleeping porch or bedroom. Arbors, pavilions, pergolas, and gazebos provide living space with a sense of enclosure while being open to the air creating an environment perfect for outdoor entertaining, particularly for an outdoor kitchen which can be [...]

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Debunking Myths: Dry Rot, Wet Rot & Wood Destroying Organisms

By |2019-08-08T07:01:37+00:00August 6th, 2019|Timber and Wood|

In Awe of Mother Nature Mass timber is gathering a great deal of attention in the art, work, and business of fabricating and assembling materials into architectural edifices. Although it is recognized as an ancient building material, timber offers unique advantages and exciting new opportunities in modern architectonic applications. Advocates for timber believe it can revolutionize the building industry, and play a supporting role in the solution to climate change. Timber from the Old English initially meant "house" or "building material" and was large, squared cuts from trees. Trees have been used as a building material for all of human history and are one of our greatest natural resources. Nature shows us the wisdom in the use of real wood as one of her most steadfast, reliable materials when we observe the marvelous wonder of trees. Trees supply [...]

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Daily Sunlight More Essential than Food or Sleep

By |2019-08-08T07:06:20+00:00August 1st, 2019|Pergola Kits|

When something is transfigured it becomes ELEVATED and EXCEEDINGLY more BEAUTIFUL than it was before. A glowing sunset can transfigure an entire landscape. But did you know? Witnessing the beauty of the sunrise can transfigure your entire life! It may seem to be a rather bold statement but hopefully, bear with me and you too, will be astonished and take advantage of this delightsome FREE Gift. Many families have told us that since installing their timber frame gazebo, pavilion or pergola kit they feel better, and are healthier. We love hearing it. We know nature makes us happy. And let's face it, too many people monotonously spend the majority of their time indoors staring at glowing screens in artificial lighting and breathing in stale air. TLTR Highlights • [...]

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