Please give me ideas for barn set-up (pics)

Originally Posted by mammabooh

There is a water hydrant just outside the barn, but not inside.

If the house wouldn't have been in such great shape, we probably would have turned the barn into the house. We've always talked about living in the bottom of a bank barn and having the enitre upper part as a rec area. We DID turn the upper part into our rec area (sort of). We have all of our weight-lifting equipment up there, a half-court basketball court, and a tv and vcr so that I can do my mini-trampoline exercises. We also store our ancient pop-up camper up there and we leave it set up so that we can camp out there whenever we want to.

There is a grain room up there, so we've discussed putting a railing around the upper part of it, building some steps over the steps that go to the lower level, and making a sleeping loft. Our friends did just that...they have a ladder, a railing around the area, and two twin beds with a little dresser and table lamp. It's just darling! Whenever they have get togethers in the barn (which is quite often), all of the little girls like to go up there and play.

If we ever re-floor the south side of the upper level, we'll probably set up our ping pong on that side (it's just sitting there unused because we don't have anywhere to set it up). Right now, that side is too dangerous to even walk on.

Originally Posted by mrs.H

And this helps alleviate my jealousy how?!?!

Just kidding of course. We are making an offer on our dream property down here in N. GA. Almost 4 acres with a SMALL barn (24x20 I think) and a double wide mobile home. But it's only $29,000! And 25 minutes from church less to store. We currently live in a subdivision with almost 1 acre. We already have 2 ND's and a small flock of chickens. Our current "barn" is 8'x16'. I almost fell over when I saw you barn!

Originally Posted by CaliannG

In your second post that has pictures, in the first picture of that post, and to the left....that (now lower than the rest) partition leads out to the rest of the barn, correct?

One thing I can promise you is that if you leave that corner alone, and do not raise it, your ND's will leap from that manger, on top of that partition, dance a jig up there just to freak you out, and then gaily jump down to the other side to frolic in the rest of the barn and see what kind of trouble they can get into.

And yes, they WILL dance a jig on that bare 2 inches of board showing, easily. My minis will dance jigs on top of ONE inch thick pieces of wood, just to watch my eyes pop out of my head and to hear me yell at them to be careful! 1/2 inch edges are no challenge for my ND's.

Other than that, it looks like a lovely set up.

And *I* don't have barn envy.....but that is only because I am currently in the process of gathering a bunch of locally grown materials for my Japanese-inspire, BAMBOO barn. ~nodsnodsnodsnodsnods~

Originally Posted by 6e

Oh that is totally awesome!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE old barns!! I wish I had one. My inlaws have an old barn like that, but they're slowly letting theirs fall apart and what I wouldn't give to have it. I'm so glad you're keeping yours up.

Originally Posted by mammabooh

Well, hubby and I used to always judge people when we were driving around the countryside and say they were dumb for letting their barns fall apart. So, when we moved here, we thought we just HAD to keep ours up, or we'd have to lump ourselves in with the "dumb" people! I must say, though, I don't really think it is so much that people are dumb, but that it is quite an expensive undertaking!