Windows were framed into the cordwood with rough-cut poplar. Post-and-beam construction combined with cordwood barn building produces a farmstead outbuilding that protects livestock in the winter and ...
You feel it the moment you walk in. The passion in every detail. The love of craft. The joy of transformation. A centuries-old barn stood in disrepair until a couple, moving from Boston to Carlisle, ...
“If you want it to last, build it right. Just build the way they used to build barns around here,” lectured the old Dutch handyman. “You can’t take shortcuts if you build with quality, and a quality ...
In the swirling chaos of the early pandemic, I did not always pay attention to my carbon footprint. But when I decided to build a barn on our Vermont property, I learned how my concrete and carbon ...
While traveling through West Virginia and Pennsylvania last month, a large part of the time on two lane highways, my wife and I began to notice the many interesting barns along the way. Many appeared ...