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Professional Associations

• Building Systems Council
• National Home Builders Association - For Consumers
  In this section, NAHB has assembled a wide variety of materials and information for the homeowner.  Everything you need to know about building your new home, taking on a remodeling project, to helping you understand more about home building.
• Structural Insulated Panel Association
• Timber Framers Guild of North America
  The Timber Framers Guild is a non-profit educational membership association. Our goal is to educate our members as well as the public in the techniques and theories of contemporary and historic timber framing, the centuries-old construction system of large wooden posts and beams.
• Timber Frame Business Council
  The Timber Frame Business Council is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the benefits of timber frame construction. Our member companies include builders and designers of timber frame homes, timber suppliers, panel manufacturers, and other related businesses.

Magazines & Newsletters

• Architectural Digest, The International Magazine of Interior Design
• Better Homes and Gardens
• Fine Homebuilding by Taunton Press
• House Beautiful
• Inspired House, Taunton Press
• Building Systems Magazine. Home Buyer Publications, ph: 703-222-9411
• Natural Home Magazine
• Scantlings, Newsletter of the Timber Framers Guild
• Timber Frame Homes Magazine, Home Buyer Publications
• Timber Frame Illustrated Magazine (sorry, their site is down)
• Timber Framing, "Journal of the Timber Framers Guild," quarterly publication of the Timber Framers Guild
• Traditional Home

Books

• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein
• Build a Classic Timber-Framed House: Planning and Design, Traditional Materials, Affordable Methods -- by Jack A. Sobon
• Camps and Cottages by Molly Hyde English
• Coastal Retreats by Linda Leigh Paul
• Cottages by the Sea by Linda Leigh Paul
• Creating the Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka
• Storybook Style by Arrol Gellner & Douglas Keister
• Small Houses (Fine Homebuilding/Great Houses) by Fine Homebuilding
• The Backroad Home--Simple Country Designs of Cottages, Cabins, Barns, Stables, Garages and Garden Sheds with Sources for Blueprints, Kits, Building Accessories, Catalogs and Guide Books edited by Donald J. Berg, AIA.
• The Bungalow by Paul Duchscherer and Douglas Keister
• The Cabin by Dale Mulfinger and Susan E. Davis
• The Not So Big House, by Sarah Susanka
• The New Cottage Home by John Tolpin
• The New Family Home: Creating the Perfect Home for Today and Tomorrow by John Tolpin
• Timberframe Interiors by Dick Pirozzolo, Linda Corzine
• Timberframe: The Art and Craft of the Post-And-Beam Home by Tedd Benson

Miscellaneous

• Log Home and Timber Frame Expo
  offers numerous three-day trade shows that expose all facets of the log and timber-frame home buying and building process.
• Ponderosa Forge
  the largest blacksmith shop in Central Oregon. Their  work has been featured in some of the finest destination resorts, including the Sunriver Lodge in Sunriver, Oregon and the Black Butte Ranch Lodge near Sisters.
• Real R-values for Whole Walls
  Scientists with the Department of Energy have developed a new method for measuring the effective R-values of wall assemblies.
• www.homeportfolio.com
  This is a web site filled with excellently designed products, suitable for a Not So Big House. There's a wonderful feature on the site that allows you to collect images and data on the products you like, that you can later download and give to your architect or designer. I recommend this site to all my clients.