MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Old barns have become a hot commodity as designers of luxury home seek seasoned timber to give new buildings a vintage look, worrying those who want to preserve the barns and a ...

inventures Inventures: New life for old barn wood Rhonda Engle rescues barn wood and brings it back to life.

Delta business turns old barn wood into new products sold nationwide Antique Beams and Boards was started in 2006 and it’s been growing ever since.

This is a place where old barn wood, full of nail holes and knots, gets a fresh start. Eventually, it's recycled into antique furniture, restaurant decorations, theatre sets, rustic exterior ...

Demolition usually brings to mind machinery and crushing. But for a Casper company that collects old barn wood, it’s a job with a hammer and a crowbar while they peel boards by hand, one at a ...

Using old barn wood “makes their home place more than something to use just for shelter, but a real home, made with real materials that had their own unique life before you reused them,” he said.

He takes the old barn wood and handcrafts birdhouses with historically accurate architecture that ultimately become homes for our feathered friends.

Workers have suggested that building a barn new, rather than assembling an old one would have been much simpler, but that’s not the standard for Meriam Park, Almaguer said. Old wood, new times ...

Smoky Mountain Vintage Lumber features a variety of old wood and it all has a story.

An idea to harvest a few pieces of wood from a family barn turned into an epic project to salvage the entire structure and use it in the author’s new home.

Distress new wood to make it look like an old barn beam! This is how I make new wood look hundreds of years old. Let me show you how I distress and artificially age my material.

The Clow family farm near 103rd Street and Book Road in Naperville once was an operational dairy farm. The wood from this barn was collected by All American Reclaim in Crystal Lake to be resold.