by Admin | Jul 4, 2024 | Blog
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...
by Admin | Jul 14, 2023 | Blog
When designing and building your house, windows play a huge role in the function of your home. They allow for natural light, ventilation (passive cooling) and provide for the best unobstructed views especially for scenic locations. If your priority is views,...
by Admin | May 1, 2023 | Blog
At some point in time as you plan your home building project it will be necessary to having drawings produced. In many cases, you may or may not be committed to a builder, architect, or design company, and you may not know where to start. It can often be a daunting...
by Admin | Dec 14, 2022 | Blog, Ship to the USA
Our Michigan – Custom Gambier project is nearly complete! As part of our design process we ensure that our house package will meet the zoning and building code requirements anywhere that our clients build. For this particular project, we had modified our popular...
by Admin | Oct 1, 2021 | Blog
As we move into fall, there is some great news — lumber prices have come back down to earth! The sudden spike in lumber prices earlier in the year was created by a housing and renovation boom which was fueled by low interest rates and people having time to work...
by Admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog
At Tamlin, we understand the importance of being able to see, touch, and compare various products in our prefabricated house packages. Given that many of our homes are built in “remote” areas, throughout Canada and the USA, the viewings of finished homes...
by Admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Blog, Ship to the USA
One of our favourite things to do is customize our standard prefabricated house packages for a client. Our Design and Sales teams really enjoy the creative process of making a dream home a reality. This three bedroom, two bathroom 1680 square foot home is currently...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
You will notice the superior craftsmanship of this 2,500 square foot hybrid timber frame home starting with the port-cochere as you drive up to the front door. The handcrafted Douglas Fir timbers continue throughout the inside of the home and out onto the expansive...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
One of Tamlin’s specialties is using solid Douglas Fir timbers in our prefabricated homes. This premier wood species from British Columbia is sought after as one of the best structural softwoods due to its strength, durability and appearance. Tamlin uses a special...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog
For some of Tamlin’s clients who really love wood, our custom premade Douglas Fir stair systems are designed in sections to be installed quickly on site. All stair systems are precut, test fit/pre-assembled, sanded, sealed, and carefully packaged. The Douglas Fir...
by Admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Blog, Ship to the USA
This model is one of Tamlin’s popular plans. Since the summer of 2020, Tamlin worked on modifying the home with the owners and we are happy to announce the “Clear Lake Alaska” has been shipped to Anchorage! Tamlin shipped this complete house package over 2,000 miles...
by Admin | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog, Ship to the USA
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...
by Admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Blog, Ship to the USA
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...
by Admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Blog, Ship to the USA
Built in Northern Minnesota near Lake Vermillion, one of the oldest towns in the Arrowhead Region, sits this brand new Discovery Ridge Home. This prefabricated house package was shipped on two trucks to a staging area and then transferred to smaller trucks for...
by Admin | Mar 19, 2021 | Blog
This 1,800 square foot West Coast Contemporary carriage house was built on the Sunshine Coast, BC 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...
