The octagonal room at the far end of the picture in the previous post is going to be a tower, too. In the basement, it couldn’t be anything other than a wine cellar, right?
The ceiling in that room is a timberframe and Streamline Timberframe has been waiting to deliver it. Mike Stubbs, of Streamline Timberframe, built a jig yesterday to more or less load it on the back of one of their trucks to move it out to the farm.
Wine Cellar Timberframe
It’s made almost entirely from reclaimed oak, having been milled from logs out of an old log cabin. Streamline Timberframe sawed the rough logs for me on the sawmill in the back of the picture, and then built it in the building right behind the camera. To the right of the picture, you can see the heartpine “family room” all cut up and ready to assemble. We should be ready for that in a couple of weeks.
The room above the wine cellar is going to be cherry panelled walls, so it will have ceiling timbers identical to this, except in cherry. The room above will be a bit more elaborate and have black walnut timbers. Much of the walnut and cherry were sourced from dead trees on Crooked River Farm, but some had to be sourced from other local farms. But it’s all sourced locally, cut locally, and manufactured locally.
Crooked River Farm 
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November 11, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Jason Rutledge
To follow up on the sourcing of the additional material for the beams at the Crooked River House, they are indeed locally sourced using the exact same methods/techniques of harvesting employed in Crooked River forest. They are all DRAFTWOOD community “Green Certified” by coming from restorative forestry practices that include “worst first” single tree selection, skilled directional felling and modern animal powered extraction – all audited to meet DRAFTWOOD standards by third party community members. The additional cherry beams came from the forest of the Col. Norton property, just a couple of miles down the road from the Stream Line shops and the additional Walnut is coming from the same riverside in another part of the county that the home is situated.
The patience by this landowner and builders are an appropriate new definition of the phrase “just in time”. In this case it means just in time for the sourcing to be highly sensitive to the forests and from methods supported by this group of environmentally ethical individuals starting with our deeply principled home builder.
The look of this finished project will be completely unique with the paneling often being the very side lumber from producing the beams. We can’t wait to see the finished structure. It will truly be something grand to behold.
On behalf of the many ground level forestry workers that have participated in this sourcing of sustainably harvested forest products, we thank Chris Thompson and his very able builders and associates.