A: Post and beam construction is an excellent method to build a residential house. Most of the many-century-old homes and buildings in Europe used post and beam construction.

Post-and-beam construction is popular for homes throughout our country. There are many smaller companies that build them within only a relatively small radius of their headquarters.

Gabler, who has been building post and beam construction homes for 20 years, said Lake County is ripe for the comeback of post and beam.

Standard post and beam homes use much simpler, yet equally strong, joints. A typical post and beam house often uses 6x6-inch vertical posts and 6x8-inch horizontal support beams.

On the South Shore, a couple tasks their designer with modernizing a pond-front home while preserving its cabin vibe.

Post-and-beam construction is popular for homes throughout our country. There are many smaller companies which build them within only a relatively small radius of their headquarters.

Built in 2000, Stones Throw, a glass-walled post-and-beam home in the Thousand Islands region, features a first-floor primary suite, a wood stove, an open kitchen, and a spiral staircase to a loft ...

Just west of Frederick, Md., Ken Walker Construction is building craftsman-style custom homes with post-and-beam designs in Jackson Mountain Range. Built of natural materials that blend with the ...