Barn Restoration – wild sprout

Snowpocalypse 2019

I love the summer, to be in the garden and hanging out with the birds and the bees, or in my greenhouse admiring the yummy tomatoes. Well, I guess I love the spring, when I get to see the bees again and knowing there is plenty of pollen for them to multiply. Come to think…

Barn Quilts

Our Barn Quilt Story On one of our journeys from Washington to Idaho, somewhere middle of Washington, on the other side of the mountains and trees, we noticed large painted quilts hanging on barns. In what might be regular-old farming or pasture land, the quilts gave the area so much more personality. The view heading…

Barn Conversion Complete

I’m very delinquent in getting this posted, as I completed the barn conversion over a year ago. Now that I’m no longer working, I guess I have no excuse for getting so far behind… After all the interior walls were removed, I poured concrete footings for the posts required to support the new glulam beams….

Transition to Reconstruction

After a couple long days working in the barn this weekend, I’m nearing the transition point from disassembly to reconstruction. I removed the remaining interior stall walls, and also a couple non-supporting posts to make room for maneuvering the big glulam beams into place. Boy was that fun moving the beams from outside where they…

Barn Conversion – Disassembly

In my previous post about the firewood “lean-to”, I mentioned our project to convert several stalls in the barn to a garage for the old truck. It took a while to make the final commitment to do the project, but we’re off and going. I told Inga when I started to disassemble the interior stalls,…

Adding a “lean to” for firewood

We’re planning to convert several of the stalls in the barn to a new garage for the old farm truck. One of the first sub-projects in my project plan was to build this lean-to for the firewood, which has been stored in one of those stalls. Over the MLK holiday weekend I built this lean-to…