She Preserves History With Furniture

She Preserves History With Furniture BUILDINGS Miscellaneous For years Carolyn Linton has been reclaiming wood from barns and old houses to give them new life through the furniture she creates Carolyn actually lives in a barn she took down and moved to her farmstead She also works in a restored 1894 barn that was originally located in Missouri on the farm where she grew up Carolyn didn’t start out as a furniture builder First she was a teacher and then she became a general contractor She built furniture to show off the houses It wasn’t long before she realized she would rather build furniture than houses Green Meadow Barn Company specializes in using century-old Missouri wood Timbers and beams are reclaimed from aging barns The type of wood she finds varies but most of the old barns she finds were usually built from either pine oak or occasionally walnut To make each piece an original Carolyn records the history of the barn on every item she makes so each piece of art is a reflection of the present and the past Carolyn creates both traditional and more modern pieces to suit a variety of tastes “People like the combination of old wood and metal ” Some of the timbers she uses have quite a bit of age on them “Some of the timbers on a couple of pieces are from barns built before Abraham Lincoln was president ” Carolyn feels a reverence for the early barn builders “I’m amazed they could build barns like this without power tools ” she says Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Green Meadow Barn Company 1626 Quail Run Carrington Mo 65251 ph 573 592-0331; www greenmeadowcompany com

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