If you grew up in rural Wisconsin (like I did) it's nothing to drive from town-to-town and see the countryside dotted with old wood framed barns. However, over the past 30 some odd years, as urban sprawl has pushed out, further and further into rural areas, farmers have been forced to either modernize their operations to keep pace or sell off their land. This has resulted in the American barn becoming a bit of an Architectural Dinosaur. These great historical structures have been left sagging and weathered and eventually replaced by a pole barn (low long buildings made of post and beam construction and wrapped in industrial steel siding) or raised for a new development of homogenized McMansions.
Over the past 6 months or so I have been following the journey of a great dinosaur revival. The project/house known as Bare Hill Barn or BHB, tracks the journey as a Massachusetts Teacher/Historian and his family as they work to convert a two-hundred year old barn into a modern green friendly home. Their is great deal of information on their green products and approach to the property so check it out. Additionally, the home will also be featured on the Discovery Channel Network, Planet Green on the show Renovation Nation, so look for that episode, if you'd like to see a little more of their great story.
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