Porter Barn Wood in Phoenix sells wood salvaged from century-old barns for furniture, walls and more Owner Thomas Porter routinely tells customers where the barn wood came from But he keeps secret how ...

Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It's about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by 6-foot stalks of corn. The ...

After decades of serving as flooring in expensive West Coast and mountain estates, dismantled Ohio barns are finding a home in the Buckeye State. More Ohioans are using the old wood in their houses, ...

2002 - A tour of some of Vermont's picturesque timber frame barns. 2002 - A tour of some of Vermont's picturesque timber frame barns explores the history, construction and preservation of the ...

After decades of serving as flooring in expensive West Coast and mountain estates, dismantled Ohio barns are finding a home in the Buckeye State. More Ohioans are using the old wood in their houses, ...

WASHINGTON, Iowa — Drive any back road and you’ll see them, sagging sentries of an era past: barns with curves and barns with gables, barns painted white or red or gray. Some with proud peaks jutting ...

Weathered barn wood shelters a Madison County mill that was built in 1865 and went out of business in the 1930s. It has sat vacant since then with most of the steam-powered mill’s equipment intact.

Quiet, intimate and peaceful are not often words used to describe a bustling neighborhood café, yet Thomas Porter of local lumber company Porter Barn Wood is determined to blend the convenience and ...

“So many barns are lost. They just get taken down and plowed under. Our home gives them a breath of life.” While it might look timeworn, this newly listed seven-bed, four-bath home in the township of ...

Much of modern farmhouse style – the shiplap, natural materials and distressed finishes popularized by magazines and shows such as HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” – evokes a simpler time in a vague, nostalgic ...

The old 1949 barn in Mississippi had seen better days. A few years earlier, a tornado scored a direct hit and tore a gaping hole in the roof. The rainwater that followed ate large holes in the ...