Tamlin Homes Blog
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Why Have Lumber Prices Increased?
With record prices of lumber in the news these days, the cost of building a home has increased. There are a number of reasons for these cost increases which include the COVID-19 pandemic, but the main reason is higher demand with a limited supply.Headlines in the news...
Helping to Keep Building Costs Under Control
Many of our clients who have taken the opportunity to work through permit plans and engineering with Tamlin during the Fall and Winter months are now in a great position to take advantage of setting up delivery schedules for their house packages once their building...
Update On Michigan – Discovery Ridge
Located in an area of Michigan where some of the finest trout fishery is located and steeped in interesting history (Ernest Hemmingway fished in and wrote about this area) sits one of our custom Discovery Ridge homes. This prefabricated house package was shipped...
Sunshine Coast – Custom Carriage House
This 1800 square foot west coast contemporary carriage house was built on the Sunshine Coast recently. Tamlin and the owners had worked together many years ago on their first home, and this new building was custom designed to complement the existing home.Tamlin not...
Vancouver Island – Horne Lake 1279
We at Tamlin love receiving updates from clients as they finish up their home builds. More-so when they are an owner-builder who had their home to lock up incredibly quickly!This client on Vancouver Island initially contacted Tamlin in late 2018 and are now almost...
Update On Michigan – Custom Gambier
This customized Gambier was designed with Michigan zoning and building code requirements in mind. This particular design utilizes a hip roof to aid in snow load requirements and the minimum slope required for metal roofing. See below for some progress pictures.These...
Sechelt – Modified Georgia Strait
The spectacular views from our clients’ homes continue to inspire our design team to create homes that take full advantage of them. This home, perched high on a cliff, on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast is no exception. This modified version of our Georgia Strait is...
Point Grey Golf Club, Practice & Teaching Facility
This unique custom project is near completion in Vancouver. The contemporary west coast timber frame, post and beam construction is the real highlight for this high-end golf practice facility. With a total span of 160 feet, and towering 18-foot-high covered ceilings,...
Washington – Discovery Ridge 924
Many of Tamlin’s prefabricated home clients are building accessory dwelling units, either for themselves to live in while they build their main house, as a guest house, or for extended family. Our Discovery Ridge series is quite popular for this reason. Our clients in...
New Hampshire – Contemporary Custom Home
This well-designed custom modern contemporary home was started from simple floor plan hand sketches in mid 2019 and some photos that the client liked. Tamlin’s experienced design team worked with the owners and their local builder to pull together a conceptual plan...
Michigan – Custom Gambier
This Modified version of our popular Gambier model was shipped to Michigan just over a month ago. The Gambier was the perfect choice for the client; their modifications to the great room windows and the addition of a screened-in porch helps them to maximize the views...
Michigan Discovery Ridge
This 1775 square foot modified Discovery Ridge home package was shipped to Michigan last week. The prefabricated components were loaded onto two trucks at our factory. Our trucks crossed the border together (a requirement for a house package to the USA)...
