Over the past couple weeks the fireplace at this timber house has been completed and we have installed the mantel.

Here are some other pictures of the timber work and ceiling. The Douglas Fir timbers have a natural finish on them, but the pine paneling of the ceiling has been stained slightly brown. It’s turning out pretty nice:

…and here is a picture of a window trimmed out and finished:

And here is just a drawing I stumbled upon today that I did many years ago of my 
wife climbing a giant White Pine: