For homeowner Brett, the idea of spending quality time with his wife and young children outdoors in a timber frame pavilion was one that followed him from one home to the next. Originally discussing the idea with his father, who is also his homebuilder, several years ago for his first home, it was here in his second home the idea finally took form. 

“It was actually an idea we had in our old house, then we decided not to add on and move, so the idea followed us to this new house,” Brett told us. “This project was an idea of ours for 5 or 10 years, quite a while. We love the outdoors and after seeing some of the other New Energy Works projects online, this idea just came together overtime to build a three-season timber frame room.”

The porch has quickly become the focal point of the house, with evenings and weekends now largely shared by the whole family on the porch when the weather is nice, and sometimes even when it’s not.

See more: Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Project Credits: 

Solar Partner: SunCommon

Timber Frame: New Energy Works

Engineer: Sellers Treybal Structural Engineers 

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Recently our team revisited one of our favorite restaurant locations near our Farmington New York campus to install a decorative custom-made reclaimed Douglas fir truss.

This flagship Dibella’s Italian Market location is in the nearby town of Henrietta and features extensive woodwork from our fine woodworking division NEWwoodworks, who have over the course of several years crafted a series of heavy timber craftsmen style tables, butcher block counters, and booth tabletops featuring reclaimed Heart Pine provided by our sister company Pioneer Millworks, as well as built in shelving & paneling among other features.

This past year we retuned once again to the location to raise an expansive fully custom 44-foot-long freestanding parallel-cord truss that artfully divides the expansive dining space. The choice to use reclaimed 12x12 Douglas fir timbers with Heart Pine accents speaks to the idea of old-world craft which Debella’s embodies.