CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Reclaimed lumber is among the most environmentally friendly building materials because, as any 12-year-old can explain, recycling is good for us and the planet. The wood is beautiful ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Reclaimed lumber is among the most environmentally friendly building materials because, as any 12-year-old can explain, recycling is good for us and the planet. The wood is beautiful ...

Tommy Dee’s fresh focus is putting new life into old wood. The house he built and shares with two daughters and his wife, Stephanie, west of Solon, is packed with it. There, you will find shelves, ...

Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It’s about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by six-foot stalks of corn. The ...

From the front porch of the cabin on the farm in Missouri, I am reflecting on the changes and remembering the past. The cabin, built on the frame of an old house trailer, with corrugated tin siding ...

Members of the Gateway Redevelopment Group had been trying without success to find old barn siding to use on its new storage building when they spotted an ad in the Quad-City Times seeking to sell the ...

Whether it evokes the past, or just looks picturesque, the sight of a big red barn beside a farmhouse can tug at the heartstrings. “The nostalgia is so strong … because someone’s great grandpa built ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Reclaimed lumber is among the most environmentally friendly building materials because, as any 12-year-old can explain, recycling is good for us and the planet. The wood is beautiful ...