Projects · Whitefish, MT · In progress

McDaniels

Just under 11,000 square feet, custom timber-frame home in the Homesteads north of Whitefish — the second home Glacier Basin Builders has framed in that area. Timber package over a million dollars, with tall vaulted ceilings throughout and a large footprint.

Looking down over the roof framing from above, rafters fanned across one ridge after another, with forest crowding in and hazy mountains along the skyline.

~11,000sq ft: Size
5men: Crew
$1M+: Timber package
60–70% framed: Progress

This is the second home Glacier Basin Builders has framed in the Homesteads north of Whitefish, a large custom project running just under 11,000 square feet. The timber package runs over a million dollars on its own — extensive timber work across tall, vaulted ceiling spaces and a big footprint.

A five-man crew has been on site four months and framing is somewhere between sixty and seventy percent complete. As with every job of this scale, the challenge isn’t any single cut — it’s keeping the timber framers, the general contractor, the lumber yard, and the truss supplier all working off the same schedule when nothing in the building is a stock part.

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A crane flying a beam in over the walls while a framer stands waiting on the wall plate, small against the height of it, stacks of banded lumber on the ground below.

Early sun flaring through an open gable as a crane lowers a long beam into place, the frame half in silhouette and steel posts standing in shadow beneath it.

From up on the framing, a wide sheeted floor deck running out toward the trees, a bare steel frame standing at its far edge and mountains beyond.

Long runs of floor joists laid in parallel across the foundation, seen from above, with a truck and a site trailer pulled up alongside on the gravel.

The floor system from further back under a heavy gray sky, a worker crossing the open joists with the hillside dropping away behind.

Straight down over the framed floor plan, every room readable as a set of stud walls, with a crew trailer and a telehandler parked on the gravel alongside.

The site from overhead in early light — framed walls below, lumber staged in rows across the gravel, and the road cutting through dense forest beyond.