Surprisingly, Texas Timber Frames use less total wood than a standard stick-built home built with 2”x4” boards. Timber frames require less of the metal and plastics used in the stick-built homes that require so much energy and waste to create. Your beautiful timbers, which not only support your roof but lend natural division to rooms and texture to your walls, will be naturally maintained as they are revealed within the home rather than hidden in the walls behind drywall.