NORTH BEND, Wash. – Extensive timber frame expertise was not a prerequisite when Daucey and Pat Brewington embarked on building their dream home in the elevated woods near North Bend. It was a matter ...

Daucey and Pat Brewington’s home outside North Bend features a mahogany fixture (far end of the kitchen under the window) in the kitchen, which is an old beer cooler from a defunct Queen Anne Hotel.

Robert and Melissa Lewin live in Brooklyn in a 110-year-old Park Slope brownstone, which, while beautiful, is “connected to other homes on either side, is chopped up into small rooms and filled with ...

“Extensive timberframe expertise” was not exactly a prerequisite when Daucey and Pat embarked on building their dream home in the elevated woods near North Bend, Wash. Turns out they assembled just ...