Old Barn & Home LLC

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

Foundation efforts are underway on our Northwood to Tuftonboro NH antique barn home conversion. Thank you to Patrick Battaglia Foundations for the exceptional work.

12/15/2024

It took an entire year, but we finally have a building permit for our next barn to home conversion!

This truly one of a kind antique barn frame from Northwood, New Hampshire that we explained earlier on our page will have a second life in the hills of Tuftonboro, New Hampshire.

The unique offset bays on the original framing design allowed us to create such a functional and flowing floor plan for each story. There are many custom interior and exterior design aspects using antique stone and granite. We have tens of thousands of square feet of antique reclaimed sheathing, architectural salvage items and period correct hand hewn timbers for built-in details not shown on the plans that you will just have to wait to see.

The home will sit upon a massive 12’ tall foundation designed for antique car restoration, with integrated shed roofs off of each side wall for extra car storage and a hidden mechanical/utility room.

The site work is complete, the well location is set, and the foundation will be going in next spring. We will be restoring the frame during the winter months in our (new) relocated shaker barn workshop!

Thanks for all of your support! Happy Holidays and here’s to a wonderful 2025!

05/28/2024

If you are looking to actually build green, the only truthful and honest way is to re cycle an antique building and re use all of the materials that you can.

Nearly every other method of construction uses large scale manufactured resourses and wasteful energy consumption. If you must buy anything new, please source it locally and hire local tradesman whenever possible.

Even as builders must adapt to meet the new energy code, there are still so many ways to use fundamental building practices and environmentally safe products.

If you are buying any building products containing glue, tar, sealant, caulk, foam, plastic, vinyl, fibers, adhesives, or any other known toxic substances, or your materials come from overseas or across the country, please re think your approach.

Proper antique buildings used lumber and timber from old growth forests that were harvested and dressed without the use of power tools. Many people don’t understand the rarity of the wood or the natural properties that it possesses. It is in fact the most high quality wood to ever exist, containing sap, pitch and natural chemistries that gave it the ability resist rot and insects. Kept dry and allowed to breath it will literally last forever. The secondary parts of an old building also typically used earth born materials with thoughtful application throughout that stood the test of time.

As corporations and mass production have taken control of the products commonly used in the building industry, the quality has been lost and the resources are only as efficient and sustainable as many companies sales efforts tell you.

We understand that building with antiques is not always affordable. Unfortunately, saving money by using modern manufactured materials is usually at someone else’s or somewhere else’s expense.

Save a barn…

05/14/2024

After months at the drawing board (with “help” from Ivar) we are very excited to get going on our next build! We can’t wait to show you what we have been working on!

04/11/2024

We would like to introduce you to Dale, the newest member of our team. 1998 Sellick SD-80 4x4 8k Diesel forklift. Thank you Don Goss, Goss Lumber, Henniker NH.

02/16/2024

A very special 30x30’ English frame that we recently finished.

This frame has the only clear span truss bents that we have ever seen. 30’ to the posts and 22’ to the braces. The tie beam and the wall posts on one of the interior bents was in stunning condition with no mortise or any alterations ever. So naturally we were very excited to leave it open and showcase such a rare find.
Originally it had interior wall plates 30’ continuous running door post to door post on either side. The plates were carried by wall studs and created full length lofts, and without any interior posts it was wide open without any restriction from the loft floor to the tie beams.
It’s hard to say exactly why they did this but as with all antique barns they were designed to be functional, a massive tool built specifically to meet the farmers needs at the time.
And so that is what we did to meet our clients current needs for hay storage and to be able to move equipment in and out of the barn without restriction.
We removed the continuous interior wall plates and supported one of the interior tie beams that was damaged with an offset post to create a corner loft and add some strength to the building.

Thanks to Goss Lumber for providing the sill beams and pine sheathing to close in the barn.

02/14/2024

We recently finished this side job in Meredith NH where we removed a barn section from the end of a house. It’s exciting to find hewn chestnut English barn frames. This one will live again as a barn/workshop in Lincoln Mass.

Thanks to Manifest Builders for their help with the clean out and dismantle!