It was 12 parsecs loud, OK??!!

My rich East Coast aunt bought the rural Midwest farm where her mother grew up a few years ago. She ordered tons of furniture from Crate & Barrel, (Apparently in an attempt to show the locals that you could “still have style” far from the city. It was a huge hassle. Now she goes to Walmart.) and she showed my dad a…

Yep. I’ve lived on a farm with multiple falling-down barn/ruins and they’re unsafe and difficult to manage. We don’t live on the old farm anymore - thank all that is good and true and right - and if someone had come offering us cash money to take the things down and cart the trash away? Done and done.

Oh my god are you just looking to fight with me? All I said was that reclaimed wood is not automatically an environmentally-friendly design choice, if you are shipping it across the country (shipping shit from all over is a trend that all Americans are into right now and we should all be a little more aware of how…

As I said in another reply, this isn’t an either/or choice. The reclaimed wood trend is creating a new market for both reclaimed wood and new wood finished to look old. My neighbor wasn’t putting wood on her wall for any reason than she liked the way the old barn wood looks. Shipping it across country for this purpose…

Historians? Ummmm...what about the farmers/land owners. They should do whatever they want to with their land and buildings. They don’t owe it to “historians” to have barbs on their land that they neither want nor need.

Yes, but we’re not talking about someone who needs wood and must either buy new or old. The only reason my neighbor was putting wood on her wall at all (a purely decorative choice) was because reclaimed wood has become a popular design aesthetic. It’s not like she sat down and thought, “We need wood on this wall, what…

Yup, all the government scientists I’ve known (granted, in Canada, not US), are passionate and curious nerds, it’s the politicians (the “government”), that have been shutting them down, not the public service...

Light, sound, same difference!

I’m so glad you posted this because I was coming here to do the same. “FARMER HAS BARN WALLS STOLEN. POLICE SUSPECT DESIGNERS.”

According to the AP, the initial blast “sounded like lightning”

Where do you think new wood comes from? If you aren’t in the pacific nw, that wood is getting shipped to you (if it is US wood). Otherwise, it is taking a boat trip from South America or elsewhere.

Not sure where you live, but in most places, it’s not like un-reclaimed wood comes from a tree farm behind the Home Depot down the road.

I don’t think that just being old is enough of a justification for keeping a dangerous structure up. We should definitely strive to preserve a fair number of the safer ones, but a changing landscape is a normal part of the march of time, and a lot of those old barns are really dangerous and collapsing in on…

That makes sense! I drove by one the other day that still had a mostly intact “Clinton/Gore” campaign ad painted on that side. :)

I think most people (even some of us a bit hypocritically) resent those who have the luxury of being super precious about these things.

Yeah, that’s excessive for sure. But I’m not going to hate on small farmers (a notoriously wealthy group, right) for making some money off of something that would cost them if there wasn’t a demand.

I basically agree with you. However, my neighbor did order reclaimed barn wood from the other side of the country in order to create an
“accent wall” in her kitchen. I think it looks cool, but I’m not sure that shipping reclaimed wood across 12 states is either economic or environmentally sound. So some of the hate…

Hay typically.

Recycling is good, particularly wood, even if it’s hipsters doing it. I don’t understand all the sudden hate for reclaimed wood. Just throw it all in the dumpster, amirite, or burn it! That would be much better.