We finished the downstairs barn renovation project:
- Pointed all the stone walls (3 walls)
- Dug out the old dirt floor, ran drainage pipes and cemented it
- Tore out the old horse stalls, cow stanchions and feed troughs
- Installed new windows
- Installed new entrance door
- Build window frames using oak boards from the old horse stalls
- sanded polyurethaned window frames
- Rebuilt the one wooden wall
- Drywalled and painted the interior of the wooden wall
- Refaced the outside of the barn walls that were not stone
- Closed off sections between old beams toward the outside
- Completed rewired everything
- New outside and inside lighting
- Painted all new sections of the barn “barn red”
- Build a “crush pad”
- Installed railing on crushpad, painted it barn red also
All this in less than a year – and just in time for the wedding!
