Steve Miller
TEA HOUSE DESIGN INC.
11 Benedict Rd, P0 Box 99, Waccabuc, NY 10597
Voice: (914) 763-3078 Fax (914)763-5951
Email: steveteahousedesign@earthlink.net

I am licensed, insured, experienced and have been timber framing for
29yrs. I've designed and built new timber frame barns, plus moved,
demolished, disassembled, altered, added on to, rebuilt and converted old
ones. I've also designed and built timber frame houses and additions,
including historic restorations and historically accurate additions. For
the frames we are using Oak, Eastern White Pine, Douglas Fir, Locust and
Chestnut. The oldest houses that I've worked on are both farmhouses here
in Westchester County, dated to approximately 1740. My company completed
an historical restoration of the 1829 Schoolhouse at the John Jay
Homestead, a New York State Historic Site in Katonah. I have worked on
several projects with the Timber Framers Guild, one being a joint project
with Habitat for Humanity. I've also designed and built a boathouse, small
bridges, farm sheds, carports, garages and a catapult (all timber frames).
I built my tree house/ tea house by recycling a cylindrical wooden water
tank, adding a new deck, a new conical (six hip) roof, plus making doors &
windows, and a loft in it. I have jacked up, shored and lifted sections
of buildings in order to complete structural timber and foundation
repairs, sometimes lifting whole small barns and sheds (not with bare
hands or just by myself). I've also milled timbers directly from logs, and
I've done silo work, stick framing, pole buildings, many types of roof
work, gates and fencing, decks, garden structures including planters,
arbors, trellises and garden benches, plus docks and rafts. I have found
solutions to just about every water and drainage problem I've been
presented with.

Much of our work on old residences includes improving energy efficiency
and indoor comfort, plus elimination/mitigation of hazardous and
irritating materials. We also design and make doors, windows, moldings and
cabinets. I occasionally make thorough inspections/evaluations of
buildings and properties for prospective purchasers, or for possible
repair and restoration projects. I work out of Waccabuc NY, in northern
Westchester County, about one mile from Connecticut, and I have been in
business 33 years.