I think we're the educators Derek is talking about. (And we don't care about grammar or semantics in discussion boards!) My husband was the one who originally wanted the timberframe. He started seeing them in timberframe magazines and loved the exposed wood, the intricacy, the artistry. I was just hungry for a cabin--I thought with our finances we would have to settle for a Tuff Shed with a loft (we actually know people who have such a cabin and seem quite content.) Derek started convincing me that I wanted a timberframe with his rhapsodies about reclaimed wood, the artistry of the trusses, the joinery. He took us out to an old scrapyard and picked up these paint-smeared, nailed beams and showed us the grain. I never knew there was so much to know about wood. Neither my husband nor I had even stood in a timberframe until I went up to Montana to Derek's workshop to check out the frame they were building for us. I stepped inside and fell in love with the wood right away. As a matter of fact, wood beams seem to be contagious: as our timberframe was being built, our neighbors would walk over with their five dogs so they could "hug a post." I love seeing the wormholes and the places where other craftsmans once put their own marks into the wood. Our place is so beautiful. Friends, visiters, workmen drop their jaws when they walk into it. One friend, when the roof and gable dormer were finished, compared the soaring feeling of it to a church. And, yes, I know what you mean about the light--it moves through our timberframe all day like some kind of oceanic current. We are teachers, so it's just a little thing-1200 square feet. but even my mom calls it a "fairytale in the wood."
Originally posted by Derek J Swanger:
Originally posted by mo:
[b]Educating, persuading, selling. Semantics! People with hundreds of thousands of dollars (or most people in general) probably do not like to feel as if they are ignorant or they need some education when it comes to being sold on an idea. I'm talking about persuading.
As Daiku says, seeing one is wanting one. Are you sure that pertains to everyone? I think there must be people out there who grow to love a timberframe after experiencing one. Sure you can see the strength and beauty, but how about how the wood changes with the seasons, how one would notice sunlight in different parts of their home through the years all the things that could not be grasped immediately upon seeing one. Don't people in this scenario have to be sold upfront before they are sure? How do you make them love it before they do? How do you make them experience before they experience it?
Wow, and to think I just got done helping some educators build thier own timberframe. They are forum members too. They didn't have much money but they knew they wanted a timberframe. They are both english professors. Careful with those semantics. I'll invite them to this discussion. They would be experts on this. Derek[/b]:rolleyes: