Timber Home Living

You Get What You Give

If you build it, they will come. That was the motto that motivated Jay and Judy Welker to create a welcoming timber frame retreat in Northern California’s coveted Martis Camp. The couple envisioned a place that would draw their growing family together in the same way a nearby smaller home, long since outgrown, had for the past two decades.

But their idea of bringing people together went beyond the usual script

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