The front of the barn is no longer advertising Typar. Hurray!
Category Archives: The Barn
Here’s the long awaited update to the barn renovation! All of the windows for the 2/3’s are in!
The first two thirds of the new barn floor are now down! In some places there are spacers that are 4 inches high just to make the floor level. So our shop has gained a little bit of head room, but the upstairs has lost some…
It’s been a month since my last post and how time has flown! We were working as hard as we could to get our plans finalized and submitted for our building permit
We got this pretty little tree from Muskoka. We’re just hoping that it lives! Anyone with hints on how to make that happen please let me know:)
Last week we got connected to the (relatively) new water and sewer lines at the street. Hurray! No more worrying about the sewage tank (nope, I did not mean septic) overflowing. The sewage line was a surprising 12 feet down at the road. Talk about a big hole! We were just imagining how long it would have taken if we were digging by hand.
Here is the barn from the air. All that dirt is ours! I did mention that the barn (and property) is a work in progress right?
Sorry little critters, you are going to have to find a new home. The ceiling is being reclaimed.
The day with help to remove the rest of the apartment. It was surprisingly fast and uneventful to take out the rest of it. Thanks for all of the help! Everything goes much faster when there is a small army working on it. Battering ram held by Kyle…who needs a sledge hammer or pry bar?
Are these chickens? Found them in the barn loft, it looks like there were chicken coops set up in the apartment.
The inspector came in and gave us the go-ahead to take down the existing apartment so we could get a better idea…
So here we are, able to live in the barn! This room was formerly an office when the barn was a barn (20 years ago), then it was the previous…
Welcome to the Minto Barn Board! May 2, 2011 we (finally) took possession of the barn that has been our only thought for over 6 months. The intention is to use the ground floor area as a shop for our furniture company and convert one third of the loft area into an apartment, and two thirds into an unheated gallery space. I will write here as often as I can to update whoever is interested
