Salvage Old Barns Blog July Archive

Salvaged Barn Items

07/29/10 16:10

If you would like to incorporate old salvaged barn items into your home layout, this is a mine of information to assist you. Take the 3D virtual tour through the Greenwich carriage barn where you can see how to incorporate box beams, solid timbers, ceiling beams, faux wood beams etc into your design dream. Create your unique Yankee Barn Home by applying these wonderful design ideas. All items are salvaged from old barns and will ensure that your desire for a rustic Yankee Barn Hone is realised.

Link: Old Barns Bought and Sold; Uses for Barnwood

Tags: old barns • yankee barn home • rustic timbers • barn salvage •
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Keep it, or Throw it?

Rats, mice, insects like mosquitoes, roaches, and other pest makes an old barn their very own hotels. Ants and or termites is worst that it eats up the lumber of every old barn, making the structure somewhat unstable and unsafe for everyone coming in and out.

There are often two options for dealing with old barns, it's either to to throw it or keep it. Throw it and start demolishing the structure until it break down on itself making it more dangerous for people around it. Keep it, and start salvaging what is still useful and restore it's former glory.

Link: demolishing an old barn; Old Barn Challenges