Barn paint

[foulplay]

Foulplay,

I like that rustic looking wood you used on your coop. Where/how did you get it? I want to use unfinished, rough, rustic wood for my coop.

Jim

The boards are from our bank barn we put new boards on our barn and I took the boards and turned them around because they are red on the inside. So the chickens get to have a red interior coop. It was easy to paint we just wire brushed all of the boards before painting them.

 

[MoonShadows]

Quote: Thanks. I just got off the phone with a guy a few towns over who has a saw mill. He said he can supply me with rough cut 1" thick boards of varying widths for about $1 a square foot. I figure I need about 240 square feet for my 10 x 6 coop, so that isn't too bad a price. It's even cheaper than buying T-111 or knotty barnside unpainted panels from the local Lowes.

I also want to build a green house and kitchen garden across from the coop and run. It would look nice if they both had the same look.

 

[foulplay]

Awesome mine were free if you figure that I didn't have to pay for them the first time they went on the barn

 

[MoonShadows]

I wish I had an old outbuilding I could take the wood from. Unfortunately, when we moved here 18 years ago the barn was long gone with nothing but the foundation left. The one building left standing on the property, other than the house, we "patched up" and use it for tool storage and a workshop. It is actually a 2 story shed built on the side of the hill around the 1940's. The lawn mowers, tiller, etc are housed in the bottom of the shed. It has some great wood in/on it, but I don't want to "to rob Peter to pay Paul".

 

[foulplay]

do you have any neighbors with barns. They probably wouldn't mind if you toke some boards off the back wall

 

[MoonShadows]

do you have any neighbors with barns. They probably wouldn't mind if you toke some boards off the back wall

in the dead of night....