Thomas Porter gives wood with a past life new purpose. As owner of Porter Barn Wood, he sells wood salvaged from 100- to 300-year-old barns for furniture, doors, signs, floors, mantels and walls.

In this video, learn how to build a DIY farmhouse dining table using reclaimed barn wood lumber with epoxy inlays. The ...

Reclaimed barn wood flooring can be found for as little as $5 or $6 a square foot - comparable to some new maple or cherry floors. But it more commonly sells for $8 to $12 a square foot and can ...

Marie Roth often spends her days tromping across farmland in search of wood from old barns. Clad in white cotton clothing, leather gloves and hiking boots, Roth, 64, hauls the pieces to her studio … ...

Transplanted barns. Barns taken apart plank by plank, beam by beam. A crane stacks the wood on a flatbed that takes it to where the client wants to build.

The wood used in rowhouses in some cities, particularly those built before the 1930s, is high-quality lumber cut from old-growth or even virgin forests that no longer exist.

One group of planks that holds up the roof over the front porch came out of a sausage factory, she said. The wood still bears the marks of the smoking process in the factory, as well as nail holes and ...

But now the wood from the old barns has become a popular material for construction or remodeling. “A lot of people want to buy things that have a story and are a part of history,” Bowe said.

Then, run 10 pieces of Wood through the Lumber Mill to produce the required amount of Wooden Planks to add a Barn to your Village. Now you have a Barn, all that’s left to do is house an animal ...