When JoAnn Lapoint became a grandmother, she decided to make good on her long-held desire for a guest house on her seven-acre riverside property in Kennebunk — for visiting family and to potentially ...

LONGMONT — No Amish are involved, but what’s going on west of Longmont at Coyote Ridge Farm still qualifies as a good old-fashioned barn raising — with the emphasis on old-fashioned. The ...

Leisurely Sunday drives can lead to beautiful site-seeing amongst quintessential New England backdrops. But when you get inspired to replicate ideal properties donning country-style post and beam ...

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 ...

WAYNE, Neb. | A northeast Nebraska manufacturer of custom wood barns continues to show signs of growth with expanding product options and site locations. Sand Creek Post & Beam, based in Wayne, Neb., ...

WINDSOR, Vt. — In a drafty old factory near the Connecticut River, carpenters were preparing the remains of a farmer’s 160-year-old barn for a new life. They cleaned the beams, including three 55-foot ...

Almost any building, from a church to a school, can be transformed into a house. But converted barns in particular hold the inexplicable allure of Americana. Curious about what life would be like in a ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - You’ve no doubt heard the expression everything old is new again, and a local business is proof of that. It’s called Antique Beams and Boards, and the Delta-based business is ...

A bit of old America is being recreated in modern-day Avon. For the past few months, massive red oak beams have been coming together to create the frame for a post-and-beam barn on Waterville Road ...

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 ...

Rick Bott is hunting for clues to the origin of the old post-and-beam barn he is in the process of dismantling. ”Look at the type of milled lumber,” he said, pointing to the regular saw pattern in one ...