If home is where your heart is, doesn't it make sense that your home should inspire you to do what you love?

How can it do that? For each person, inspiration may come from something different. For me, it comes from the structural aesthetics that are utilitarian and well finished.

Like the man pictured in this image, I too would get lost looking at the craftsmanship that it required to make this blacksmith's work shop. The hammer beams in this picture may be best described as rustic yet refined.

Yet as the image demonstrates below, sometimes rustic can be immensely elegant.

This begs the question, who are the builders and how do they know that the structure will stand the test of time as so many buildings from the 1800's have proven that they can?

The answer can be summed up in one science, physics and physicists. These physicists more than likely only knew simple logical statements about gravity and forces. These were known by tradition, experiment, and their work. The result, however, was spectacular, and we now have timber framed trusses and homes as the result.