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Our in-house design team focuses on creating thoughtful, highly efficient and timber frame homes tailored specifically for your family, your way of living, and your land.

 


Download our Design Questionnaire to get started.

We Lead with Questions

Collaboration is key to designing a home specifically for you. That means getting to know you & your lifestyle is an important piece of the design journey. So we start with our Design Questionnaire, which informs us on:

Design your home for your land. Controlling exposures, capturing the light, views, and elevation changes so that you experience the best while maximizing efficiency. 

  

 

Design your home for your lifestyle. Understanding how your family works, how you use space and would like to use space allows us to help you right-size your home.

 

Design your home for your ethos. Whether you’re looking to reduce your energy bill and be climate resilient, or help our planet with carbon-sequestrating materials & eco-considerate mechanicals, we’re here to make it happen.

 

INSPIRATION STARTERS

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Gathering Lodge

Football season brings weekends of intense pre-tailgate time with the home serving as big game headquarters. The simple cruciform plan for this hybrid timber frame home comfortably fits the homeowners and larger gatherings with family and friends. A parallel chord truss with steel struts spans two gables over the main living area. 

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The Secret Life of Bees

Tucked away on a secluded piece of farm & woodlands, Larry & Nancy wanted a home with effective use of space. The house has an open living area and master suite on the main level with smaller privatized spaces. The second story has the view, with peeks to a nearby river. A screened porch on the northeast side protrudes into the woods, and a garden with apiary brings the inhabitants through the transition from field to forest.

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Long-Term Lake Front

For homeowners Larry & Jennifer, owning a timber frame home on one of New York’s Finger Lakes was a long-term goal for most of their married life together. After years of searching, they finally found the right property, purchased it, removed the existing small cottage, and called in New Energy Works to design and build their new custom home.

 

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Drake Ambrosino — Great Lakes

Drake meets with clients to bring them through the process of timber frame home design with our in-house teams. He has over 40 years of custom home building experience, and decades in timber framing. Drake is based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan and loves to tour client sites.

Drake works with our design team, lead by Architects David Shirley, AIA, NCARB, CPHB & Kyle Barber RA, CPHC. With many years experience designing timber frame and high-performance homes, they are able to take clients' lifestyles and reflect them back into a home that is as stylish as is is thoughtful.

Give Drake a call to talk about your project, (734) 260-5045 or you email him at drake@newenergyworks.com.

New Energy Works  |  1180 Commercial Drive |  Farmington, NY 14425  |  (585) 924-3860