Hastings Park Childcare Centre, in Vancouver, is a fantastic 7,100 square foot facility that sits beautifully located on Renfrew Street on a sloped hill facing mountain views and opening out to a lovely view of the racetrack.  It has 44 licensed child care spaces for infants up to 5 years old. The program is operated [...]

Here is a beautiful home on the lake in Nelson, BC,  built by Purcell Timber Frames, who also hail from Nelson. CBR Products worked closely with Purcell and Co. to come up with a custom colour, in our Broda Pro-Tek-Tor SLT (Siding Log & Timber), for the trim on this building. The colour was coined [...]

Jay Watts from AFM Safecoat has recently given us these tips and points on how to maintain your AFM Safecoat Oils. So if you have some lovely wooden furniture that has been graced with these awesome products then here’s a break down on just how to maintain their beauty and luster. Wood is a natural [...]

Our friends at Structurlam have been doing some big things. Like building 58 of these 107-foot long mammoth beams for a new building being constructed at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. This is no ordinary building. The original Kimbell Gallery, designed by Louis Kahn, has become an architectural Mecca, so expanding on [...]

The South Bonson Community Centre is the heart of the Pitt Meadow community of Bonson.  The setting is beautifully located on the banks of the Fraser River on the site of an old saw mill. There are clusters of townhouses, condos, and a small grouping of supporting retail shops with the Community Centre sitting proudly in [...]

I was recently perusing the interwebs when something caught my eye. Bark houses it said. I thought, pfft, nah….that’d never hold up, but I couldn’t be more wrong! The home of writer Nan Chase has proven to be an amazing and environmentally sustainable way of using up Poplar bark that would otherwise be left to [...]

Here’s a couple of great videos! First up, we have Jay Watt’s, from AFM Safecoat, discussing how to use AFM Safeseal correctly and some of the dos and don’ts. Jay gives a fantastic clarification of this product. Click here to watch the vid and also to see other awesome AFM videos too!! Secondly, we have [...]

This testimonial was passed on to us from our friends at AFM in the USA, manufacturers of high quality low-VOC cleaners and coatings. Anyone with sensitivities to harsh chemical smells will no doubt relate. (If you are looking for a great cleaner and/or sealant for surfaces, let us know – we carry AFM products!) This [...]

If you have always dreamed of designing your own log home, but were never sure where to start, check out this newsletter from Murray Arnott Design. It’s a practical approach, starting with Data Acquisition, then moving to Evaluation before even beginning the Drawing Process. For inspiration, take a look at some of Arnott’s work in [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year and we’re all ready for a nice break to spend time with friends and family. And we know you’ve all been waiting for this too. It’s been an awesome year for us at CBR with new products being developed, old products being tweeked to perform even better, [...]