For more than twenty years, Michael Neelin of RiverSong Design has been well known in Eastern Ontario and beyond as a designer of handcrafted wood homes. In 1984, he attended the Pat Wolfe Log Building School. He has since designed over 60 log homes from West Virginia to James Bay.
In recent years, Michael’s focus has evolved toward handcrafted timber frame homes, with over twenty-five projects completed or in process:
“A timber frame home is a thing of great beauty and soul, of efficiency, adaptability and integrity, bringing together the best of craft and tradition with the leading edge of modern building science. Revealing massive pine timbers with pegged mortise-and-tenon joints on the interior, the very structure of a timber frame home becomes its decoration. The whole of the structure is then wrapped in a continuous energy-efficient envelope, either using prefabricated structural insulated panels or going the natural route with plastered straw bale walls.”