For one year we’ve been transforming a fieldstone silo into the ultimate hangout spot using old style building techniques mixed with modern tools and amenities.
It’s been a long time coming but we’re finally finished with the hardest renovation we’ve taken on thus far. We put the finishing touches on each floor and took a trip down memory lane while addressing some comments.
Can we make regular construction lumber look like old barn beams? We may have gotten close but hoisting our huge barn beam light up to hang from the middle floor ceiling was not easy either. The top floor is nearly complete now with some added custom made bench seats and cushions.
No silo is complete without a bar… We knew how we wanted it to look but finding and fitting a 14’ double live edge slab inside is no simple task. Lots of double measuring and muscling involved with this project.
We didn’t want to blow the budget (again) buying a spiral staircase so we decided to make our own out of hand milled logs. Never trying anything like this before, we checked out some pictures online which made it look easy but this spiral had our heads turning. We somehow made it work and had time to complete a few other projects for the silo.
From walls to ceilings to floors we’re all over the place in this video trying to make the most out of the material we have left to finish the inside structure so we can begin making furniture.
After months of ugly plastics tarps and being exposed to the outside the silo is finally enclosed but we weren’t expecting it to look like this…
Cutting and jointing large beams to fit together is one part of the timber framing process, assembling it all together is where it gets tough. Even with the latest technology we struggled but we were able to change the whole silo look with this large addition.
Building our custom timber frame roof on a level ground was the easy part, assembling it 30 feet above ground on top of a 115+ year old fieldstone silo was the fun part...
We knew we needed a roof for our silo renovation but this turned out way better than expected. On top of that, it was our first timber frame structure we’ve ever built and this is how we did it.
We got our hands on one of the largest logs we have ever come across. Check out how we were able to slab and stack so it can be dried properly in our kiln for future projects.
See how we converted a section of our old barn into a wood kiln for us to dry our own milled lumber and slabs. For more details of how we did it check out each video in this multi-part series.
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