When Dave and Becky Lime purchased a 2.5-acre lot on Linwood Lake near Wyoming, Minn., during the mid-'80s, they decided to take on an ambitious project: building a timber frame home. Timber framing ...

The great debate when it comes to lake homes is whether to call the street side or the lake side the “front.” For Laurie and Dan Hoffend, whose timber-frame home is built into a cliff overlooking ...