Mark Johnson has no problem finding people who want him to build them a barn house, restore old log cabins, fix up big stone fireplaces or do pretty much any restoration work on old buildings. "I'm ...

After salvaging wood from various properties Sandra and Bill Kirchoff have lived in their lives, they used it to build a cabin on their property. Video by Allie Schallert, aschallert@post-dispatch.com ...

When Charles and Laura Preston were building their vacation home in Texas Hill Country, they kept returning to one material in the plans: antique timbers reclaimed from an 1800s Vermont barn and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Ill. Leaned up against the fence, sitting along the gravel driveway under blue tarps and filling every building on the farm are piles of old barn wood, painstakingly stacked by Jim and ...

SCANDIA, Minn. - Curt Richter has found a future for Minnesota’s past. He exports old barns and log houses to other states, where they are rebuilt. His business, Rustic Innovations, is one of several ...

Everyone who has been fortunate enough to buy a ticket early to the Annual Mount Hood Steiner Cabins Tour and then spend a sun-dappled day inside storybook-like cabins will quickly respond to this ...

Andy Mills got into the business of preserving hand-hewn log buildings when he lived in Texas, where he saw his first log cabin. “It was half burned and falling down,” he said. But the cabin captured ...