Rustic Beams

My cousin, Chuck Potterf, has traveled from Bend, Oregon this week to create a rustic beam look in our home. This is his niche in the construction business. Most of the new beams are so wet that he will need to wait several weeks for them to dry before continuing with the project. The few he's done already look so good, we can hardly wait to see them all in place. We are using salvaged timbers from an old saw mill for the beams in Marcel's office and the fireplace mantel, but the mill did not have the sizes we needed for the rest of the house.