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.

Home & Garden Barn wood re-used inside, outside and accessorized, too Published: Jun. 07, 2009, 10:05 a.m.

In this build, I’ll show you how to turn salvaged or reclaimed lumber into a statement-making sliding door that adds instant ...

C.H. and Marj Hagstrom's old barn near Sterling, Neb., lives on in the form of reclaimed wood. Mark Ludlow of Ludlow Lumber in Omaha pulled the barn down for its lumber in August.

Agrarian chic is all the rage right now, so you’re probably not going to stumble upon reclaimed barn wood at every salvage shop. Instead, hire Midwestern Barns to scour the region for some gorgeously ...

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.

Greg White and his daughter Tracey Nelson in their Watauga workshop where they build small decorative barns from reclaimed lumber, photographed November 28, 2012. The wood-planked barns reflect ...

The Barn Owl's Warehouse in Rock Falls features barn wood of all shapes and sizes. Along with reclaiming lumber from barns and corn cribs, Dan Sutton also reclaims lumber from the floors of semi ...

The wood is from a barn taken down last year in the Mount Vernon area, Morgan said. Old barns “are like works of art, handmade sculptures,” he said.