Word: barnful
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...doubles matches. The duo controlled the match at the outset en route to a 6-0 first-set win. But the Lions rallied to take a 6-3 triumph in the second set. In the final set, despite Minkus' fever, the Crimson pulled out a 7-6 barn-burner...
That sense is enhanced in most barn restorations. "Bigger is the whole concept," says Michigan renovation expert David Ciolek, who has rehabbed hundreds of barns around the country. Ciolek creates higher, longer open spaces by a process called trussing. First he rearranges the old post-and-beam construction, then transfers the weight of the roof and hayloft to the outside walls by means of triangular wooden supports. Says Illinois livestock farmer Janis King, who had Ciolek fix up an 1870 barn: "Unless lightning strikes, the barn will be here another 100 years...
Renovation is usually cheaper than a new barn, and fixing up a historic structure can earn an investment tax credit as well. Barn Again! contest winners have spent an average of $11,000 on their projects, compared with a $25,000-to-$35,000 cost for a new metal building. There are exceptions, though: the Taylor family's handsome horse barn in Orange, Va., built in 1933 from a Sears, Roebuck mail-order-catalog kit, cost $39,000 to restore to its former efficiency...
...some, more heartfelt reasons than money are at stake. When Stockton, Ill., dairy farmer Stewart Schlafer, 41, was a teenager, he pleaded in vain with his father to tear down the family's 1876 barn and build a new one. Now, age and memories have convinced Schlafer that he should keep and improve his Gothic-style beauty. The barn, he says, "is the character and soul of our farm...
DESIGN: Down on U.S. farms, the cry is Barn Again...