07 July 2005

Cool Barn Re-Use

So we still are questioning the barn.

I think we've both come to the conclusion that we are going to do what we can to save it. Tim made a good point in that what it would cost would be about the same as a new truck and we'd enjoy it a lot longer than we ever would a new truck (chances of the barn still standing when we are dead=good, chances of the truck still running=slim).

He's been the typical Tim and is now having visions of rodding the barn himself. It scares me, but then again he's never failed at any project he's taken on. His often one track mind has started to shift. The other night I came home to find that he hadn't worked on the woodwork for the mudroom, but instead spent the evening shoveling the pile of hay that is currently rotting the haymow out onto the cattle yard.

But if we're going to spend all this money and do all this work wouldn't it be nice to adapt it some how like the following story I found in the paper.

Barn Attracts Performers and Music Lovers

3 comments:

Greg said...

I’ve never lived on a farm but I have a real soft spot for old barns. I think saving an old barn, depending on your belief system, is a sure way to secure a good spot in the after life, be reincarnated in to what ever you want, or have an excess of good karma for the rest of your life.

Anonymous said...

i so agree.
it can be converted to condos.
a vacation home for millionaire new yorkers who'd never be there and who'd think living in a barn in iowa was chic. which it is.
folk art/farmers' market/organic cheese shop.
etc.
i'll come and live in it myself!

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