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Whimpy Wolf Builders
740 Lincoln Street
Lander, Wyoming 82520
307-332-1970
"The top ten reasons for choosing Whimpy Wolf Builders are:
1. Professionalism
2. Creativity
3. A can-do attitude
4. Thinking outside the box
5. Trustworthiness
6. High standard of quality
7. Responsive
8. Honesty
9. Knowledge of non-traditional building practices
10. Resource reduction/considerations.
Not on the list, but nevertheless important when you spend weeks or even months together - all the guys are fun and easy to like! If you choose Trey and his staff to build for you, you can be sure that you will be pleased, even thrilled, with the results. We are!
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-Ben and Chris Pearson
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Recent Building Projects . . . Whimpy Wolf Builders
This page provides brief descriptions and photo galleries for some of the timber frame projects we have produced. Please feel free to browse through a sampling of our work. If you are looking to build the sustainable, unique, and comfortable home of your dreams, we look forward to working with you. So, please contact us with your questions and let us know of your interest!
| Pushroot Community Garden Pavillion |
| This is a community based project that Whimpy Wolf Builders initiated and is donating to the City of Lander and the Pushroot Community Garden. Whimpy Wolf Builders is turning ten years old in April 2011 and as a result giving back to the community. |
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| Dunlap Home |
| Trimber frame project where we remodeled a garage into a family room and incorporated three king-post trusses. |
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| Pearson's Home |
| Completed in early 2010, this home is the latest in our journey to find the perfect timber and straw bale hybrid. Evolving a modern feel and form the Pearson's home is our new standard for the marriage of ancient materials and modern spaces and living. One of the objectives of the project was to obscure the boundary between outside and in. From intimate spaces outside the master bedroom to large vistas captured by the living area we brought the outdoors in. At around 1500 sq. ft. this modest two bedroom house employs passive solar space heat, solar thermal space and domestic water heat. There is a small wood stove for those rare occasions when it's cloudy and you want to cut the chill. We also installed a rainwater catchment system, a grey water system, cellar, and a HRV (heat recovery ventilator).The home owners sourced, bought, and transported all of the interior doors and transom windows, 95% of all the salvaged oak used for trim and jambs, and most of the shelving used for the project. We also used recycled Wyoming snow fence for the the siding where there was not stucco. In this home we used a basement under half the home and staged all of mechanicals there. This saved on the size of the living space and created a dry secure storage area. There is a detached two car garage with a small partitioned work space.
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| Scream Shack |
| A fun little project using 80% salvaged building materials now sets on a prominent corner on Main St., Lander. Completed in 2009. |
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| Strand Home |
| Modified post and beam straw bale house with timber frame embellishments, photovoltaic panels and recycled Wyoming snow fence siding. |
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| Schuster Cabin |
| This is a project we completed in late 2007 located outside of Lander on South Pass at the very top of a mountain subjected to the full brunt of the weather. |
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| Cornia Home |
| The Cornia home was completed in 2008. This home, with a detached garage, has a timber frame structure and a combination of exterior straw bale walls and conventional wood framed walls. The timber frame structure rests on an insulated poured concrete stem wall. One timber frame entry post is even scribed to perfectly fit an indigenous boulder! The straw bale walls (plastered and stuccoed inside and out) which are located around the outside of the timber frame components, sit on their own "toe up". An insulated and heated concrete slab completes the floor elements. The metal roof of the home combines three overlapping single pitched shed style sections and is made with exposed timber rafters, covered by SIPs (structural insulated panels), offering excellent "R" Values. One more shed style roof covers the garage. Plenty of unique and creative features complete the interior design of this sustainable timber frame home, including roll-away solid wood doors. |
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