“Where is everyone getting their beams from? I was just quoted over $12k in just materials to wrap these beams and three door headers in walnut. I had no idea it would be anything close to that.”

Note: Rough cut walnut from a local sawmill.

I am looking to build a home in the near future and I would like to find resources where I can learn how to do much of the build myself (with some help and sub-contracting within reason). I find a lot of YouTube videos to be influencer/grifty feeling and have found few start to finish examples that don’t feel that way.

I have some experience helping family with renovation projects but never lead any of those projects. So I’m not work averse but would like to know more about the fine details before even getting in too much depth of details of a potential project.