My wife and I built our 1400 sq ft timber frame home for less than $61 a sq ft. We did everything except the rough in plumbing and most of the HVAC installation. We have solid surface countertops, a built in sauna, corner jacuzzi tub, slate floors in our bathroom and foyer, heart pine floors upstairs and part of downstairs, interior walls and ceilings are wood, no drywall anywhere. We have a gas fireplace with cultured stone, we used sips on the walls and roof. We could of reduced the costs even more by using timbers and boards that I cut on my sawmill but I had the timbers cut and bought dried boards to speed things up. It took us over 4 years working on it in my spare time. We also have a very unique set of spiral stairs that are made from chunks of sassafras stacked on top of each other in a spiral. They won first place in the interior Northeast region
Wood-Mizer personal best contest.
