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.

Porter Barn Wood has grown into a 60,000 square foot warehouse and is Arizona's largest supplier of reclaimed wood and has expanded to other services.

Most of the wood in the home, Susan explained, came out of old barns in Wisconsin, where Jake grew up. One group of planks that holds up the roof over the front porch came out of a sausage factory, ...

Poirier and Morrissette agree that while there’s still plenty of industrial wood, New England barn wood is a different story. “It’s the dairy barns that are all going away,” Poirier said.

A single barn beam can cost around $25, a bread board $45, a reclaimed wood light fixture $999 and dining tables around $1,250. On Saturdays, she hosts a maker’s space where people can come, buy ...

Barns: Legacy of Wood & Stone. 3/3/2002 | 57m 53s Video has Closed Captions | CC. 2002 - A tour of some of Vermont's picturesque timber frame barns. Aired 03/03/2002 ...

“The wood is taken from the barn one board at a time. Those boards have nails that must be removed. It all needs trimmed and hauled. Back at the shop, it is stacked so it can breathe. Air circulating ...

DALLAS TOWNSHIP -- Piece by piece demolition crews took down this wooded barn near Misericordia University. A barn that has stood for hundreds of years is now making way for the Atlantic Sunrise ...

But I couldn’t shake the image of all that gorgeous 100-year-old wood just going to waste. Surely it deserved a more fitting end. That kernel of an idea eventually grew into an epic family ...