What to do with the old barn?

The old barn frame is similar to the house. A combination of hand hewn spruce timbers with sawn ones. This was common in the 1870's as mills made sawn lumber more accessible. The long timbers were cheaper and easier to hand hewn while the shorter ones were sawn.

We are very interested to use the antique wood, especially hand hewn, in the retrofit of the house. But there is also a need for the barn space as Wayne is already working with a local CSA to share the barn space for overwintering animals.

Wayne wants a more practical space for storage and garage. The compromise seems to be to dismantle the older half of the barn for reusing wood while saving the newer half and renovating it to be more useable for current farm needs.