Wife says I need a barn!

kevincook · Nov 22, 2003

We were out working in the yard today trying to get everything ready for winter. We were putting away the lawn furniture, etc. My wife decided that we need a barn to store all this stuff in. I made that suggestion eight years ago and have been waiting patiently for her to agree. Heck, eight years ago we didn't need a barn I was just planning ahead. I don't want to spend a fortune but my wife will definitely want a pretty barn.

I like the barn in the link below and my wife likes it also. I am really trying to figure out what type of siding to use. Can anyone tell what type of siding is on the barn in the picture? It looks like it may be tongue and groove, cedar maybe?

Barn Picture

I'm sure it is going to start snowing around here soon and I don't want to be working in the lousy weather so I probably won't do anything until Spring but I need to start planning now.

Thanks,
Kevin

Boxman · Nov 22, 2003

Looks to me like it's board and batten, probably standard grade rough sawn cedar or pine. Although I could be completely wrong, that pic makes real details hard to see.

boxman

riptides · Nov 23, 2003

Quickly stake out the site! Start practicing driving your tractor around it....

-Mike Z.

Please, agree on the site with your wife, I could not convince mine, and it cost me. Guess where it ended up? Yep, right where I said it should have been.

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bebster · Nov 23, 2003

This will be a great project! I've been designing mine for a year now and feel like I'm just about ready to go. My advice is to work up your plans on paper and then sleep on them, and then the barn will grow overnight with all the uses you can make of it.

jinman · Nov 23, 2003

Kevin, I don't think the material is cedar. I have cedar siding on my house and it's much darker than the barn looks. I'd guess it is pine and I'm not sure about the board and batten, but it could be done that way. Would you apply stain or let it naturally turn grey? It certainly looks like an attractive style.

5030 · Nov 23, 2003

Kevin:

That looks like T-111, 8" on center, stained with a transparent stain and waterproofer.

You can get T-111 in colors now too. I did our horse barn in grey T-111 8" and it came out beautifully.

LWFrisk · Nov 24, 2003

Kevin

We lost our storage barn in the Cedar Wildfire a few weeks ago. My wife and I both like the photo you posted. Are you thinking of constructing it yourself or contracting it out? Are you considering having the company that posted the photo do the work?
They are a long way from San Diego, so I am thinking of contacting them to see if they would sell the plans. If not, I will take the photo to a local draftsman and see what they can do with it.
Good luck with your project and I will let you know what happens out here.

We are thinking of a red tile roof to match our house and having the outside stucco with a rock or brick design in the stucco. They do some nice thing with stucco here on the west coast. -- And it resists fire a bit better than wood.

lwfrisk

kevincook · Nov 24, 2003

Sorry to hear about your loss in the fire. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

I'm going to call the company this week and see what they say. On their site they say the barns can be assembled by the owner or by local carpenters. I'll let you know what I find out.

Kevin

wroughtn_harv · Nov 24, 2003

What size of barn are you thinking about Leo?

It wouldn't take much to design a metal framed one with a stucco exterior and a faux tile roof. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

If you're thinking about a standard two car garage size, now that would be fun.

Here in Texas they put a steel galvalume siding and then using brick hangers, a brick exterior. It wouldn't be too big a stretch to use the siding, spacers, stucco wire, and then a nice colored spanish texture stucco finish. In your area even better looking would be a slumpstone exterior up forty two inches with stucco up from that.

If you think you're interested give me your dimensions and I'll do a material takeoff. Then you can compare apples to mangoes. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif