The family we built this particular frame for happens to live on a picturesque hillside overlooking Iowa timber ground. They had some walnut logs that had been cut from their timber, and asked Phil if he could incorporate some of the walnut into the frame.

A simple enough request, and one we were thrilled to tackle. "How long do you want those pieces?" He asked me over the phone, early last year. "Oh, probably 4' long. Maybe 4 or 5 of them?" We didn't yet know what we would be doing with them, but figured 4 feet would give us a bit of wiggle room as far as design goes.