Timber Frame in Arlington
The work that makes the whole brand make sense.
Arlington is home to Washington Timber Company — our sawmill. When we say we mill our own Douglas Fir, this is where it happens. No town makes the Svensen vertical-integration story more literal: the timber in your build started a few miles from your lot.
Timber frame is where Svensen is unmatched. We do not specify a timber package and wait on a vendor — we run the log through our own mill and engineer the frame through our own product line.
That control shows up in the structure: oversized members cut true to grade, joinery detailed for the design, and a frame that reads as the centerpiece of the building rather than something hidden in the walls.
What we build
- Full timber-frame and post-and-beam structures
- Hybrid timber and conventional framing
- Exposed structural timber for homes, restaurants, and commercial space
- EV TimberShield engineered glass-and-timber canopies
- Custom-milled oversized Douglas Fir members
- FSC Chain-of-Custody timber on request
The mill is here. So is your timber.
Washington Timber Company runs in Arlington. For a timber frame here, the Douglas Fir is milled a few miles from the site, to the dimensions on your drawings. Coast Douglas Fir is among the best structural softwood in the world, and this is where it grows.
Owning the mill changes the work in two ways. Members are sized for the design rather than the design being trimmed to fit a supplier catalogue, so spans and proportions come out as drawn. And when something changes mid-build, which on a frame it does, resizing a member is a conversation rather than a reorder and a three-week wait.
Arlington owners tend to take us up on the standing invitation. The timber for your frame is stacked a short drive away before it is cut, and plenty of people come and look at it.
- Source
- Coast Douglas Fir, milled at our own yard in Arlington.
- Sizing
- Members cut to your drawings rather than selected from stock dimensions.
- Schedule
- Design changes handled at the mill, not through a supplier queue.
- Suits
- Full frames, shops, barns and covered structures on larger Arlington lots.
Source: Washington Timber Company, verified September 2026. Codes and fee schedules change. Confirm current requirements with the city before relying on this.
Raw Douglas Fir log → milled oversized timber at Washington Timber Company → engineered structure through EV TimberShield → raised and finished by Svensen. No middlemen, no markups stacked on markups, no waiting on a supplier to tell us what is in stock. This is the supply chain, and we own all of it.
How the supply chain worksThe supply-chain moat
We own the sawmill (Washington Timber Company), the engineered product line (EV TimberShield), and the build crew (Svensen). One company controls cost and quality from the forest to your finished frame. No competitor in the region can say that.
From log to raised frame
Engineer the frame
Members are sized and detailed for your design and load case — not pulled from a catalog.
Mill to spec
Oversized Douglas Fir is milled at our own sawmill to the exact dimensions the drawings call for.
Fabricate joinery
Connections and joinery are cut and dry-fit before anything reaches the site.
Raise & integrate
The frame is raised by our crew and integrated into the full build.
Timber Frame: recent work
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Timber Frame in Arlington: FAQ
Where does your timber come from?
From our own sawmill, Washington Timber Company in Arlington. We mill local Douglas Fir to spec for Arlington projects — we don’t order imported timber-frame kits or wait on a supplier’s catalog.
Do you build timber frame homes in Arlington?
Yes. We design, mill, engineer, and raise full timber-frame and post-and-beam structures throughout Arlington and the surrounding Puget Sound — homes, restaurants, and commercial spaces.
How is a Svensen timber frame different from a kit?
A kit ships you pre-cut parts to assemble. We mill the members to your design, engineer the joinery, and raise the frame ourselves — so the timber is sized for your Arlington build, not the other way around.
Can I see the timber before it goes into my frame?
In Arlington, yes. The mill is here, the Coast Douglas Fir is cut to your drawings, and plenty of owners come and look at their beams before the raising. That is not something a builder working from a timber-frame kit can offer.
How is this different from a timber frame kit?
A kit ships you pre-cut parts sized to somebody else’s catalogue, and the design gets adjusted to suit them. We mill the members to your drawings, engineer the joinery and raise the frame ourselves. The timber is sized for your building rather than your building being sized for the timber.
Timber Frame nearby
Let’s build something that outlasts the mortgage.
Tell us about your project. We’ll tell you what’s buildable, what it costs, and how the supply chain works in your favor.