CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Reclaimed lumber is among the most environmentally friendly building materials because, as any 12-year-old can explain, recycling is good for us and the planet. The wood is beautiful ...

Jake and Susan Schloesser have a lot of balls in the air. They’ve just completed a rough-hewn barn, and are at work on their house, set back in a grove of aspens hard up against a mountainside in ...

As you know, we love old barns here on the program. It's always great to hear when someone decided to restore a barn. Ardean and Linda Nunnenkamp not only saved an old barn, they turned it into their ...

Tommy Dee’s fresh focus is putting new life into old wood. The house he built and shares with two daughters and his wife, Stephanie, west of Solon, is packed with it. There, you will find shelves, ...

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 six-foot stalks of corn. The ...

Members of the Gateway Redevelopment Group had been trying without success to find old barn siding to use on its new storage building when they spotted an ad in the Quad-City Times seeking to sell the ...

From the front porch of the cabin on the farm in Missouri, I am reflecting on the changes and remembering the past. The cabin, built on the frame of an old house trailer, with corrugated tin siding ...

Former Times-Reporter staff writer Renee Brown Parker takes us on a personal journey of replacing the family’s nearly 100-year-old barn with a new one. Old bank barns are familiar sights around here.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Reclaimed lumber is among the most environmentally friendly building materials because, as any 12-year-old can explain, recycling is good for us and the planet. The wood is beautiful ...