I built a timber-framed 12x16 barn with a cedar shingle roof with almost no experience. Mostly I read one book and, by strange chance halfway through, an interested person (who loves timber framing) saw me working in my driveway and decided to teach me several things and aid my technique, and supervise the raising process.
Late this year I will plant 2000 tulips and daffodils as part of a rose garden I am planning, that begins in earnest next year. I hope it will look nice enough to turn some heads.
I built this same frame from the Sobon plans last summer on a lot of raw land I got with my wife. It's a supremely satisfying building method in so many ways, the simplicity, longevity, locality of materials: mine just sits on some laid stacks of fieldstone I found on the land. I also met local people with timber frame experience through the process and it has led to some great relationships within the community where we bought the land.
I'm currently sitting comfortably inside the structure which I have almost finished enclosing this summer and fitting with some of today's less traditional amenities.
Some pictures and more details: https://map.simonsarris.com/p/building-the-goose-palace
Late this year I will plant 2000 tulips and daffodils as part of a rose garden I am planning, that begins in earnest next year. I hope it will look nice enough to turn some heads.