Ridgeline designs and raises heavy-timber homes for families who plan to stay a hundred years. Every frame cut by hand, every joint made to outlive us.
A house from a catalog keeps the weather out. A frame cut for your ridge, your light, and your grandchildren does something more: it makes the mountain feel like it was waiting for you.
Mortise and tenon, cut in douglas fir and pegged in oak. No steel plates hiding the work. When you look up from the dinner table, you see exactly how your house holds itself together.
Months of quiet work in the shop, then a raising week on your site: cranes, mallets, and a frame that was rehearsed on the shop floor before it ever met the sky. Families tend to bring chairs and watch.
Projects shown are fictional, created for this concept study.
Before drawings, a day on your site. Where the sun rises in January, where the snow drifts, where you'll drink coffee. The house starts as a conversation on the ground it will stand on.
Month 1Architecture and engineering under one roof. You review a physical model of your frame, not just renderings, and sign off on every beam before a saw touches timber.
Months 2 – 6Your frame is cut, fitted, and fully assembled on our shop floor in Montrose. You're invited to see it standing there first. Then it's numbered, taken down, and trucked to your site.
Months 7 – 12Raising week, then the long craft of making a frame into a home: envelope, interiors, stonework, and the punch list we keep until you stop finding things for it.
Months 13 – 24"The crew set the last peg and the whole valley went quiet. My husband cried. He'd deny that, so it stays between us."
Raising slots are planned two seasons ahead. A first conversation costs nothing and obligates nothing but an hour.
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