Tamlin Homes Blog
Find out about our recent projects, new post and beam house plans and more.
Personalizing Your Tamlin Home Plans
Each of our 2024 home plans can be quickly personalized in the following ways without changing the square footage or room structure. This allows you to truly make the plans your own while still saving time on the design process to expedite manufacturing and building....
Gambier – Colorado
A Home-Owner-Builder’s Experience (E. Balvanz) Our award-winning Gambier Series of contemporary homes have been designed to maximize the views from our clients’ properties and this setting in southwest Colorado near the San Juan Mountain was perfect. The...
Tamlin’s 2024 Home Plans
Whether you're envisioning your dream house as a cozy timber frame cottage or a West Coast contemporary home, you will love our newest design series. Based on our most popular home packages, we have engineered our 2024 home plans to be customizable without altering...
The Gambier
The award-winning Gambier prefabricated house package was the first in the Gambier series and was built on remote Gambier Island in British Columbia. Many people have told us that this does not look like a “prefab” home, which is a great compliment to our design,...
Beautiful Custom Hybrid Timber Frame Home
At Tamlin we love keeping in touch with our clients and hearing how they are enjoying their homes years later. This prefabricated house package was shipped to south central Washington State six years ago. This home has a 2,080 square foot main floor with a 1,788...
New Plans – Coming Soon
Over the winter months, Tamlin was super busy working on 20 new designs for our house packages. We are so excited that the plans will be ready for launch soon on our website! Tamlin’s real uniqueness is the strength and experience of our in-house design technicians....
California Timberframe Retreat
California Mountains - Douglas Fir Retreat If you are passionate about wood structures, this custom Tamlin timber frame project will interest you for sure! Set in a California mountain location this recreation center retreat has been designed with a solid Douglas Fir...
Exterior Finishes
Choosing the right exterior finishing material for your custom timber frame home is an important design choice that can be factored by personal preference, aesthetics, maintenance, and affordability. At Tamlin, traditional Western Red Cedar and Cement Board siding are...
Changing Building Codes and Timing
A noteworthy trend in remote building locations is the increasing adoption of stricter construction guidelines. Sometimes this is due to energy code revisions, structural requirements (seismic zoning), development changes, or local adoption of tighter environmental or...
Custom Contemporary West Coast Post and Beam Home
The Discovery Ridge is one of Tamlin’s popular prefabricated house package models. This home built in Northern California was customized for the owner and includes a 1,775 square foot main living area with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a flex room built on a slab...
Southwest Colorado Gambier
We are excited to share some of the first photos of this prefabricated house package, which was shipped in April of this year. We had shipped the prefabricate garage package in July 2022, so when the house package was loaded onto 3 trucks and shipped to this client...
Tamlin’s Modern Farmhouse – Hybrid Timber Frame and SIP
Established in 1977, Tamlin has 46 years of building experience in a diverse range of home building styles, and many of our projects are custom designed. These days, with higher building costs and more technical requirements for engineered drawings and building...
