When you decide on a modern home of timberframe construction, you've made more than the most sensible home-building choice available on today's market.

You've struck a liberating blow on behalf of creative living. You've made an important lifestyle decision.

You've rejected the cookie-cutter alternatives, instead opting for quality, beauty and durability. You've chosen the most soul-enhancing and revitalizing home environment imaginable – a house constructed by Canadian Timberframes Ltd. of Golden, B.C.

Above, a medical building with exterior timberframe elements, completed recently by Canadian Timberframes. Below, the timberframe interior of a home.

Known by some as "post-and-beam" construction, timberframing is a time-honoured building method favoured by the master crafstmen of old. Strong? No other structural process can compare. Countless timberframe structures in Europe and the U.S. remain in outstanding condition, and fully in use, 300 years after they were built.

Comfortable? A home fashioned from tightly grained, interior Douglas Fir imparts a sense of calm, warmth and well-being that's truly unique.

Esthetically pleasing? Nothing comes close to the natural beauty of exqusitely finished wood interiors, hewn from the bountiful forests of B.C.'s Columbia River Valley.

Timberframe construction is a method demanding the use of much stouter timbers, connected by means of oak pegs and joinery.

Some owners wouldn't dream of cloaking these superbly finished woods behind slabs of gyproc and drywall. However, for clients seeking the utmost in heat retention, an interior system of stress skin panels is available for enclosing the frames.

It's no exaggeration to say the buyer who chooses a timberframe design from Canadian Timberframes Ltd. holds his or her destiny in hand. The variety of possible floor plans and interior roof designs is limited only by the purchaser's imagination. And despite Canadian Timberframes' deeply felt respect for traditional construction methods, this company refuses to dwell in the past. Even those long-gone European master craftsmen would be fascinated to discover how computer-age technology has been applied to their fabled manual skills.

Canadian Timberframes designs each of its residential projects with the aid of a sophisticated computer-aided design system, known as CAD.

Meanwhile, frames are cut using a German-produced CNC computer joinery and planing machine within Canadian Timberframes' 20,000-sq.ft. production facility.

Nor is the company's expertise limited to residential construction. On the contrary, the experts at Canadian Timberframes Ltd. have built everything from gazebos to custom-crafted commercial centres.

Canadian Timberframes produces full timber frame homes and commercial projects as well as "hybrid" homes that utilize timberframing in the common areas such as the great room, entry, kitchen and dining room and use typical platform or stick framing in the other areas of the house.

The company is proud to offer its services to a wide range of customers, from timber framers to general contractors to end-use home buyers. But in the final analysis, words do a poor job of conveying the sense of permanence and pride, of beauty and comfort, of warmth and well-being that visitors experience while touring a timberframe interior.

To that end, Canadian Timberframes welcomes all visitors to its Golden facility during business hours, Monday to Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Or take a cyber-tour by accessing website www.canadiantimberframes.com.

For further information, phone 250.348.2231, fax 250.348.2241, or e-mail info@canadiantimberframes.com.