Where the house ends and the evening begins.
Pavilions, pergolas, porches, and outdoor fireplaces framed in heavy timber — built to extend the home into the land and to gather people beneath their beams for a hundred years.
Six ways to stay outside longer.
Pavilions
Free-standing timber structures with cathedral trusses and stone fireplaces — the outdoor equivalent of the great room.
Pergolas & Trellises
Open-air overhead structures that frame a patio, a garden path, or a lake view without closing off the sky.
Covered Porches
Attached to the home, framed in matching timber — where the coffee happens in the morning and the whiskey happens at night.
Outdoor Kitchens
Full timber-framed roofs over stone counters, grills, wood-fired ovens, and long dining tables that seat everyone.
Fireplaces & Fire Pits
Stacked-stone chimneys and sunken fire pits, framed by timber that carries firelight up into the trusses.
Gazebos & Docks
Lakeside and garden folies — small enough to be a private ritual, framed heavy enough to outlast us.
Anakeesta — Astra Lumina
On the Great Smoky Mountain tops, we crafted 14-foot western red cedar light posts — antique hewn and stained to their natural color — dotting the observatory path all the way around the Astra Lumina walk.
Hearthstone also raised the ticket booths, sound stage, and pavilion in Douglas fir — outdoor timbers built to tie a modern attraction to the ancient mystique of the foothills.
View the project →A short film — timbers under open sky.
Pavilions, porches, and gathering rooms without walls — how a Hearthstone frame changes the way a place feels at dusk.
Heavy Timber Catalog
Outdoor structures, volume one. A working preview of the printed catalog we’re developing — drag the slider or use the arrows to page through.
Our top outdoor gathering spaces.
Every one is designed and built from scratch — never off a shelf. From a 14×14 pavilion to bell towers, Gothic arches, and resort-scale timber halls.
PavilionThompson Pavilion
Paris, IL
A grand timber pavilion built for gathering — soaring trusses and deep overhangs that turn an open-air space into a true outdoor room.
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Outdoor LivingStout-Vannoy Pavilion
Lookout Mountain
A mountain-top gathering space framing the long views, crafted with artisan builder Graham Vannoy in heavy timber and impeccable joinery.
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Trellis & SteelSteel and Cedar Pavilion
Christiansburg, VA
Known as “Peppers Ferry,” this striking structure pairs exposed steel with warm cedar timber — built alongside KBS Construction in 2018.
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CommercialRitz-Carlton
Reynolds Lake Oconee
A commercial-scale timber pavilion for a luxury resort — hospitality-grade craftsmanship that gives guests a memorable place to gather lakeside.
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Entry & TowerAnakeesta
Gatlinburg, TN
A Gothic-arched timber entry pavilion with a bell tower, crafted for the Anakeesta mountaintop park — a one-of-a-kind landmark that welcomes every guest.
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CustomTimber Mausoleum
Atlanta, GA
A one-of-a-kind timber structure — proof of what’s possible when a custom design pushes traditional joinery somewhere entirely new.
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