Crafting Quality Log Cabins
Welcome to Borders Timbering, where craftsmanship meets innovation. We specialise in creating bespoke log cabins that combine with elegance and functionality. Whether you intend to build your own log structure, embark on an assisted build or have us build for you. The ambition at Borders Timbering is to help you overcome the difficulties and provide you with an easier smoother route to fulfilling your log building dreams.
Our Story
Borders Timbering is a small business created in the Scottish Borders to share and practice traditional rural craftsmanship through building bespoke log structures that sit comfortably in their natural surroundings in the most environmentally efficient way possible.
We use local timber, traditional methods and inventive ideas turning naked logs into one of a kind buildings that are aesthetically pleasing, charming, rustic and real.
We also use traditional timber framing techniques with internal and external timber cladding either fully or partially insulated with a roofing material of your choice.
Our Products
Cabins & Bothies
Using sidecut or logs fully in the round we combine traditional Scandinavian
log building methods with modern tools to build cabins that are both timeless and atmospheric each with a unique distinctive character.
Our cabins are generally built using horizontally stacked logs with the profile of the upper log scribed and shaped on to the lower log and locked at the corner using various notches.
We also use traditional timber framing techniques with internal and external timber cladding either fully or partially insulated with a roofing material of your choice.
Roundhouses With Reciprocal Roofs
Our roundhouses with reciprocal roofs are beautiful free standing log structures that consist of any number of rafters supported by our robust timber framing jointing system.
Timber in the round enables sturdy elegant shelters that sit and live comfortably and proudly in the landscape.
Sheds & Shelters
Whether it be the rural Norwegian Grindbygg, a roundwood timber frame or a traditional cruck frame we have a simple and efficient method of using local timbers to create sturdy strong long lasting open air structures for pole barns, sheds, field shelters or workshops.
Ecosse Mazot
A French style Mazot with a Scottish twist. Unique and full of charm the fusion of naturally weathered reclaimed wood carefully selected from ancient barns and farmhouses high in the French Alps combined with locally crafted Scottish larch or Douglas Fir timber frames. This allows us to work with you to design & build stunning quirky one of a kind cabins finished with innovative internal and external vintage cladding, fixtures and fittings of your choice.
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