Siberian Timber Craft
Estate Commissions · Considering 2027/28

The home your
grandchildren inherit.

Hand-scribed timber estates that heal the air you breathe, grow stronger with age, and become more beautiful with every passing decade.

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Estates from $8,000,000 · Banya Estates from $1,200,000 · Artisan Commissions from $16,000

Scribed in Auckland. Raised on your land, anywhere in New Zealand.

The only Siberian hand-scribing workshop practising at estate scale in the Southern Hemisphere

Hand-scribed timber estate with modern gable architecture at dusk, New Zealand
Estate Interior, Morning Light Through Timber
You don't want a house.
You want a sanctuary.

Somewhere your children grow up surrounded by warmth and clean air. Where winter mornings smell like timber, not chemicals. Where every room feels grounded, solid, and deeply at peace.

What Makes It Different
Built to endure, gracefully, quietly, permanently
μ = 3.0 Structural Flexibility

Hand-scribed joints allow your home to flex and settle naturally with the land. This isn't rigidity, it's engineered harmony that grows more settled with time.

Heal the environment while leaving your mark
798 kg CO₂ Sequestered per m³

Every cubic metre of timber removes carbon from the atmosphere and locks it away for generations. Your home begins life with a negative carbon footprint.

The air inside just feels different
40-60% Natural Humidity

Solid timber absorbs and releases moisture to keep your home in the comfort zone where your family breathes easier. No machines. Just timber.

A structure that only gets stronger with time
Engineered for Permanence

Solid timber's natural mass provides extraordinary structural integrity that improves with age. Your home is designed to stand for generations.

Hand-scribed dovetail timber joint detail
Hand-Scribing Detail
Raw timber logs drying at the New Zealand yard
Timber Selection
Corner interlock joinery where massive logs meet
Joinery Close-Up
Master craftsman Ilia Zubko at work, hand-scribing timber on site
Ilia Zubko, At Work
Master craftsman Ilia Zubko hand-scribing timber in warmer months
Ilia Zubko, Summer Work
Master craftsman Ilia Zubko working with hand-scribed timber in Siberian winter conditions
Ilia Zubko, Siberian Winter
Your Craftsman

A Siberian hand-scribing
master working at estate
scale in this hemisphere.

Your vision deserves hands that understand timber at the deepest level, twenty years of Siberian mastery, now dedicated entirely to your project. Ilia Zubko doesn't build from plans alone. He listens to the grain, reads the land, and shapes every log to serve the life you want to live. A depth of craft we have yet to find practised elsewhere in this hemisphere.

"The timber remembers the hands that shaped it."Ilia Zubko
The Investment

Three ways to Experience,
One Standard of Craft

Directional ranges. Every commission is bespoke, priced to the land, the timber, and the life it will hold.

Estate Commission
From $8,000,000

A full timber estate, hand-scribed from foundation log to ridge beam. One commission per cycle. Four to five years from first forest walk to handover, with lifetime stewardship thereafter.

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Banya Estate
From $1,200,000

An integrated wellness estate. Hand-scribed banya, cold plunge, retreat pavilion, composed landscape and outdoor furniture. One to three commissions accepted per year, paced so each receives Ilia's full attention.

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Artisan Commission
From $16,000

A single piece carried through the same tradition. A dining table, a chandelier, a standalone banya, an outdoor structure. The craft at the scale of a room, rather than a residence.

See the Collection

Figures are directional. A full framework is shared in the private briefing.

In Confidence

"Our clients don't come to us to be referenced. They come to disappear into the life the house makes possible."

Every commission is carried out under strict confidentiality. A short selection of reference letters and completed-build testimonials is available, under non-disclosure agreement, to enquirers who have been invited to private briefing.

Hand-scribed live-edge timber dining table with bespoke carved stools in a New Zealand estate interior
Live-Edge Dining, Hand-Scribed
Timber estate bunkroom with hand-scribed log walls and built-in berths for family stays
Sanctuary Bunkroom, Built-In Berths
Bespoke timber staircase with cross-cut log-slice treads in a hand-scribed estate
Log-Slice Staircase, Carved to Tread
Our Guiding Philosophy

The journey is the home.

A timber estate begins long before the first log is scribed. It begins in the forest, where trees have stood for a century waiting for this moment. We walk that forest with you, your own land where we can, a native stand where we can't, and guide you through the full story of how your home is born. So when you live in it, you remember every step. So when your children ask about the timber above their heads, you have the story to tell them.

Our Ethos

For every tree we mill,
we plant two more.

Built into every commission. The forests that give your home its bones return, doubled, to the land that raised them.

How It Begins

Three steps between
here and home

01

Choose Your Vision

A full timber estate, a Banya Estate, or a single extraordinary piece from our Artisan Collection.

02

Meet the Craftsman

A private meeting. We sit together, understand your life, and decide if we're the right fit for each other.

03

The Journey Unfolds

Walk the forest where your timber grows, your own land or a native stand, together with Ilia. Watch the first log take its shape. Years from now, tell your children the story of every beam above their heads.

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