Welcome to Barnstormers

We are delighted that you have chosen to visit our site and hope you find it useful and informative. Our team at Barnstormers is passionate about historical farm structures from tobacco barns, loft barns, dairy barns, stables, tool sheds, buggy houses, smoke houses, farm houses, well houses and even outhouses, you name we’ve reclaimed it from the farm. We get asked all the time, why do work so hard to reclaim this wood. We love it when we’re asked this.

First, we are very intrigued by the history of the American Farm, these farms shaped our nation from the very start. Families put everything they had on the line and it was up to the farm whether they survived or not. Their farms started with the buildings they constructed and strategically placed on their precious ground and that’s where it all starts for us.

These buildings were built to protect their livestock, their crops and equipment. They were built with materials most of the time that was harvested right from the farm on which they stood. Materials that had to be purchased rarely came from more than a few miles away. These craftsmen fashioned trees into structural timbers, rafters, joists, plank siding and flooring.

They were strategic in their purpose and constructed with great detail and quality and many have stood well over 100 years. But what makes us so crazy about them is that they are built out of WOOD, yes WOOD, Beautiful Old Growth Timber was harvested and turned into hand hewn beams or logs or cut into planks and these majestic old structures took shape.

We have reclaimed every species of wood imaginable from our region. Sweet gum, sassafras, sycamore, elm, persimmon, hickory, poplar, cherry, walnut, red and white oak and occasionally the now extinct chestnut. And we know just what to do with this wood and you’re going to love it.

The beauty of our reclaimed wood is in its age and what it has been exposed to whether it was the exterior siding on a barn or one of many logs in a structure or the stall door of stable. This beauty cannot be simulated, accelerated or replicated and now it gets to live on.

Using the same care in which these structures were built, Barnstormers gently deconstructs each building reclaiming as much material as possible. There is very little wasted in this process and although wood is our primary product we also reclaim metal roofing, hardware, tack and assembled items such stall doors, mangers, windows, stairs and doors and even the hewn stones that make the foundations of most of these structures. All of these items are used in various ways to create our one of kind furnishings, art and interiors.

We enjoy having folks visit our shop, if you have a specific idea in mind, give us a call and we will have some ideas of our own for you to look at. Or just drop by, you are always welcome.

We hope you enjoy your visit to our site and we look forward to hearing from you.