TV-G
2013
17 Seasons
Food & Home
Building & Renovation
Barnwood Builders
: Mark Bowe and his team of West Virginia skilled craftsmen salvage antique barns and cabins, repurposing the wood to create stunning, modern homes.
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1. Taking Down The Lincoln Cabin and Building A Dog Trot
The guys dismantle a barn built by Lincoln's uncle and then build an Appalachian...
2. Rescuing a Massive Barn and Finishing the Lincoln Cabin
They rescue a massive dogtrot style barn in Indiana and visit the nearly complet...
3. Repurposing Every Beam from a Pennsylvania Bank Barn
They take down a Pennsylvania bank barn to recover the beams and sleeper logs.
4. Salvaging a Homestead Corn Crib with a Hometown Barn Raising
They reclaim a dangerous corn crib and put it back up with an old fashioned barn...
5. Wading with Alligators to Build a Two-Story Hunting Lodge in Florida
They turn an old VA cabin into a hunting lodge in Florida and use some local woo...
6. Transforming a Shipping Container into a Portable Barnwood Cabin
They transform a used shipping container into a portable barn wood cabin to sell.
7. West Virginia Smokehouse into a Modern Bunkhouse
Mark Bowe's crew takes down a West Virginia smokehouse and rebuild it as a bunkh...
8. The North Carolina Log Home
The crew builds a well house in the driving rain and then repairs a severely wat...
9. Moving a Pre-Civil War Log Cabin from West Virginia to Tennessee
The crew takes down a pre-Civil War log cabin in West Virginia and puts it back ...
Peeling Layers Off a Covered Log Home in Virginia
Mark Bowe and the guys travel to Abingdon, Virginia, to take down a farmhouse that Mark bought sight unseen. The house is a 200-year-old log cabin, and as they strip away each layer, the news gets better.
Turning a Ramshackle Cabin into a Guest House in Missouri
The crew travels to the Show Me State -- Missouri -- to take down and rebuild a historic 170-year-old cabin, converting it into a guesthouse. Meanwhile, Mark drums up business west of the Mississippi.
Raising a Massive Timber Frame Barn in Downtown Lewisburg
Mark Bowe and the guys work in downtown Lewisburg, West Virginia, to raise a massive timber frame as the new shelter for the Lewisburg farmers market, but the 200-year-old logs prove to be a challenge.
Building a Log Chapel with a Stained Glass Window
Mark Bowe and the guys head to Johnny Jett's hometown in Kentucky to build a log chapel. First they reclaim a stained-glass window from a deteriorating 100-year-old church. Then they build the chapel and install the window.
Saving Every Board from a Kincheloe Cattle Barn
Mark Bowe and the guys travel to Jane Lew, West Virginia, to salvage the wood from a 120-year-old cattle barn that is slated for demolition. The site is so wet they have to build their own road just to get to the barn.
Salvaging Pristine Hand-Hewn Logs From a West Virginia Cabin
Mark Bowe and the guys travel to the heart of West Virginia to salvage incredibly rare 170-year-old logs from a perfectly preserved log home. The pressure is on to keep these logs pristine as they take them down.
Building a New Log Home for the Boy Scouts
Mark Bowe and his crew volunteer to help a Boy Scout troop build a cabin out of their old lodge. The guys have a lot to teach the boys about pioneer life, and the scouts' determination gives the guys hope for the future.
Taking Down a Huge, New England-Style Barn
Mark Bowe and the guys make a rare trip north to dismantle an enormous 200-year-old barn. This New England-style barn is so big it takes extra hands to get the wood down and a crane to lift out the valuable beams.
The Brown Family Heirloom
Mark Bowe and the guys restore an 1856 log cabin using wood from the original cabin, an old barn and a local saw mill. They team up with a local crew, The Good Ole Boys, to turn all this wood into one complete cabin.
Turning a Tobacco Farm Cabin into a Tasting Room
Mark Bowe and the guys save a log cabin from an old Virginia tobacco farm to turn it into a tasting room for a local distillery. The client works alongside Mark so he can pass his skills along to others.
Moving the Last Cabin in Roanoke to a Local Resort
Mark Bowe and the guys go beyond the call of duty to save the last cabin from the old town of Roanoke, West Virginia. They relocate it to a local resort, and the community comes out to celebrate the new cabin.
Grandma's Cabin
Mark Bowe and the crew save logs from a fire-damaged home in West Virginia. Mark promises the family that he will honor their history by calling the property "Grandma's Cabin."
Blue Ridge Mountain Home
Mark Bowe and the guys get to work on a huge log home in the Blue Ridge Mountains. To make the unique design work, they even create a new kind of notch and work with a team of local craftsmen.
Rebuilding Grandma's Cabin in Montana
Mark Bowe and the guys travel to Montana so they can rebuild Grandma's cabin from last season. They give the 150-year-old home a new life as a cliff-side lodge. They also explore wild west cabins and enjoy some Montana ranch fun.
Building the New England Barn in South Carolina
Mark Bowe and the guys take on their biggest build yet, resurrecting the massive New England timber frame from last season as a family retreat in South Carolina. It's six days of heavy lifting, precision craftsmanship and big fun.
Saving a Rare Log Springhouse
Mark Bowe and the guys wade into the water to save a dilapidated springhouse. Back at the boneyard, they rebuild the springhouse and finish the inside of the container cabin.
Saving a Hand-Hewn Cabin and a Rare Hand-Cut Chimney
Mark Bowe and the guys explore a perfect pioneer settlement complete with wood, water and stone. They save the classic log cabin and transform its hand-cut sandstone chimney into a fire pit grill.
Salvaging Rose's Cabin from the Woods
Mark Bowe and the guys salvage wood from Rose's unfinished dream cabin and transform it into a beautiful table with a rose inlay for Rose's daughter.
Building a Double Pen Log Vacation Rental
Mark Bowe and the crew work with one of their most passionate and knowledgeable clients yet. Together, they build a huge double pen log cabin on a platform 13 feet off the ground.
Reclaiming a One-Room Log Schoolhouse
Mark Bowe and the crew go deep into the woods near Ruddle, West Virginia, to reclaim a rare one-room log schoolhouse full of history. Back on the boneyard, the schoolhouse gets a whole new life.
Rebuilding the 100% Cabin and Restoring a Legacy
Mark Bowe and the guys take the 100-percent cabin to South Carolina where they rebuild it as a hunting cabin. While there, they work with the client's kids to build a camping cabin out of their ancestor's log home.
Rocky Mountain Cabin
Mark Bowe and the team bring an Appalachian-style cabin all the way to Cortez, Colorado. Before they leave, they also rebuild the Virginia springhouse, which will support a living roof.
Drive-Through Corn Crib
Mark Bowe and the guys use over 100 antique logs from two tobacco barns to build a dramatic entrance. The drive-through double corn crib requires a lot of teamwork and involves some of the trickiest notching they've ever done.
Barnwood Leftovers Get Upcycled
Mark Bowe and the guys are finding creative uses for all their leftovers from taking cabins down. Using spare small beams, they'll build a pavilion and sell their scraps as upcycled products.
Wild Rock Pavilion
The guys work with three centuries of materials and techniques in one project. Using custom 21st-century steel brackets and hand-hewn 19th-century beams, they create a one-of-a-kind pavilion for the Wild Rock Community Center.
Bird's-Eye Barn
The guys take down a massive double-pen barn in southern Indiana. While they work to save every log and barn board, Mark Bowe visits an incredible lodge built from a different barn they took down in nearby St. Meinrad.
Complicated Carriage House
The team heads to New Ringgold, Pennsylvania, in a covered wagon, ready to take down and move a complicated carriage house. They find all sorts of treasures in the 150-year-old pioneer garage before they strip and disassemble it.
The Cabin in the Quarry
The Barnwood Builders float down the Ohio River and land in Paducah, KY, where they try to save a little cabin in a big quarry. Alex makes a chair, Sherman makes a quilt and Mark helps build a barnwood table.
Island Fishing Cabin
Mark and his team take the logs from season three's Birds-Eye Barn and reconfigure them into a modern fishing cabin with a complicated design. While the crew finishes up, Mark goes to visit the completed Wildrock Pavilion.
Hitting the Barnwood Jackpot
Mark's client wants to deck out his Arizona restaurant with barnwood from a Pennsylvania bank barn. Mark visits another barnwood-laden restaurant for inspiration, and he crafts a plan to work with the saved wood for this big job.
Log Cabin Dream Come True
Tammy and her late husband dreamed of owning a store in a log cabin on their West Virginia homestead. Mark and the guys bring that dream to life for Tammy and her son by building the cabin and making homemade crafts for the store.
Beefy Bank-Barn Beams
Mark and the guys return to Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, for some incredible chestnut beams from a massive bank barn they stripped earlier in the year. Then Mark learns to cut soap stone at a bank barn wedding venue.
Log Kitchen Drop In
Mark and the guys head to Cashiers, NC, to build an antique log cabin in the middle of a modern home. Old wood meets new on this complicated job, and getting it right will take a lot of collaboration.
Bristol Tobacco Barn
Mark buys a massive tobacco barn with an incredible log structure inside and wants to turn it into a cabin. It's a tricky job requiring the guys to unwrap the barn layer by layer -- will the surprises be too much of a challenge?
Barn Beam Log Cabin Experiment
Mark's clients want bigger antique log homes, so the guys turn to barn beams from their Boneyard inventory. Mark's friend shows up to make a one-of-a-kind whiskey tap out of an unused beam end.
Rebuilding After the Flood
After a devastating flood hits White Sulphur Springs, Mark and the guys step up to help their neighbor rebuild. They repair a garage by wrapping it in barnwood and transform a prefab shed into a log cabin playroom.
West Virginia Legacy Cabin
Mark Bowe and his crew get a strong dose of family history in Leivasy, West Virginia, where they work on saving the O'Dell family's hand-hewn log home. Then Mark and his dad visit a log cabin built by his great-grandfather.
Building Fort Barnwood
Mark challenges his crew to build an old-fashioned fort using spare logs and hillbilly smarts. When the temperature takes an unexpected plunge, the job becomes more difficult.
Barnwood Showroom Transformation
The Barnwood Builders transform a nearby office space into a showroom for their business. They use vertical and horizontal barnwood and a timber frame facade and then finish off the room with barn doors and reclaimed roofing tin.
Picture-Perfect Cabin
The O'Dell Cabin finds a home in Texas to match a client's favorite painting. While on the job, Mark visits an original pioneer cabin and discovers something about his crew that he never knew.
Adapt and Overcome in Hamlin, WV
Mark and the team must find creative ways to pull apart an old cabin in Hamlin, West Virginia, without sacrificing the logs. Despite some rough going early on in the project, the cabin turns out to be worth the extra effort.
High-End Timber Frame Kitchen in Brevard, NC
The Barnwood Builders build a timber frame kitchen that will be the centerpiece of a high-end mountain retreat in Brevard, NC. Later, Mark and the guys visit some of the architect's other spectacular log homes.
Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding in Gatlinburg, TN
Mark and the guys travel to Gatlinburg, TN, where they replace a log home that was lost during the wildfires of 2016.
Old-School Takedown in Harrisville, WV
The Barnwood Builders turn to the old-school method of using ropes to take down a log cabin in Harrisville, WV.
Cowboy Party Barn in New Braunfels, TX
Mark and the guys head to Texas to build a gigantic cowboy party barn with a rare swing beam out of an old timber frame.
Barn Storming: A Wild Takedown in Pleasantville, Ohio
Mark and the guys have fought rain, snow and heat, but they've never had winds like these! The vicious Ohio winds turn a complicated job into a treacherous one as they attempt to save a giant double pen barn in Pleasantville.
Barnwood Gold Mine in the Keystone State
Mark finds a perfectly preserved bank barn in Pennsylvania. He also visits an incredible bank barn that has been completely renovated into a high-end home with barnwood flooring and soapstone counters.
Hope Rises in White Sulphur Springs
The Barnwood Builders join the flood recovery efforts in their hometown of White Sulphur Springs, WV, by building a timber frame pavilion as the centerpiece of a memorial park. The community gathers to build picnic tables.
Saving More Than Logs in Bulls Gap, TN
Mark and the guys go the extra mile to save the antique logs from a Tennessee home in distress. On the job they meet Larry, who grew up in the log cabin with no running water, and Mark makes him a one-of-a-kind memento.
Mark Finds His Dream Home Barn
The crew takes down a timber frame bank barn in Pennsylvania that will become Mark Bowe's home. Mark also visits a nearby bank barn that has been transformed into a gorgeous wedding venue.
Barnwood Doubleheader
Mark splits up the crew so they can take care of two separate jobs: a quality log cabin and a tobacco barn with plenty of antique material worth salvaging.
Foldable Cabin
Mark brings one of his biggest ideas to life, a foldable steel cabin. The crew takes the cabin on its maiden voyage, adding a timber frame facade and a complete barnwood interior to finish it off in style.
Larry Melton's Chance of a Lifetime
After once saving Larry Melton's childhood home, The Barnwood Builders do something they've never done before and invite him to the Boneyard to help restore his family home.
Big Ol' Buckeye Cabin
Mark and the crew discover history, craftsmanship and a lot of cherished memories as they dismantle a log home in New Springfield, OH.
Log Castle in Cave Spring, GA
Mark Bowe and the crew turn one of the biggest barns they've ever saved into an even bigger home. They work through sweltering heat to transform the Ohio double-pen barn into a huge log home in Cave Spring, Georgia.
A Barnwood Miracle
Mark and the guys take down the struggling Mt. Olivet Church in the heart of Pocahontas County, WV. As the job comes to a close, the community comes in to pull off a surprise ending.
A Gift for Graham
The team builds a log potting shed for one of their own on his West Virginia homestead. They outfit the building with reclaimed materials from roof to porch, and Graham discovers the challenges of being a client.
Cabin at a Crossroads
Mark finds a cabin from a unique moment in history when pioneers started using new technology -- the sawmill. The crew also discovers their showroom manager has a surprising personal connection to the home.
Thin-Skinned
Mark and the crew use antique log veneers to give a modern home an authentic log cabin look.
Part of the Family
The guys head to Bronston, Kentucky, to check out a 150-year-old, double-pen farmhouse built by their client's great-grandfather. She hopes to preserve her pioneer heritage, so the crew takes care to save every log possible.
Fancy Cabin Takedown in Minor Hill
Mark Bowe and his crew work through layers of architectural history in a pioneer home in Minor Hill, TN, and they hear stories from family members who lived in the cabin. Mark also visits a beautifully restored log home.
Stubborn As a Mule
The Barnwood Builders save a barn that once housed mules in the iron-mining boomtown of Low Moor, VA. As they work, they find evidence of the barn's industrial past.
Boneyard Punch List
Mark checks out the most incredible hand-hewn timber-frame barn he's ever seen and visits a beautifully restored historic home owned by Super Bowl champ, Jeff Hostetler.
Pieces of the Past
The guys salvage logs from a double-pen barn in Pennsylvania that will be reused to build a guesthouse in upstate NY. Mark and Graham visit a luxury ranch in Montana and discover some creative new ways to use reclaimed old wood.
Hometown Heroes
Mark and the guys sit down to talk about a few of their favorite things: cabins and barns. They bring in special guests, reveal never-before-seen footage and share hilarious outtakes.
In Merrie's Memory
The Barnwood Builders help a widower, Joe, build the cabin that he and his late wife picked out in the Boneyard. They stack Merrie's cabin on the banks of Georgia's Lake Hartwell, and Mark arranges a heartfelt gift.
Blacksmith Breakroom
The Barnwood Builders build a pioneer blacksmith shop to serve as their office breakroom. Mark helps set up the frame, then a local blacksmith installs the forge and gives the guys a lesson at the anvil.
Memory Lane
As the guys take down a big, old tobacco barn in Nicholas County, KY, they share memories from their earlier days. Mark checks out a log home that they stacked years ago, and the whole team visits Daniel Boone's Kentucky home.
Mountaineer Volunteers
The staff at West Virginia University help the Barnwood Builders raise a timber frame barn that Mark is donating to the university's pioneer heritage center.
A New York State of Mind
The Barnwood Builders head up the Appalachian mountain chain to the Catskill Mountains in New York to build a huge, antique log guesthouse for a couple who traded city life for country life.
In the Nick of Time
A family calls on Mark and his team to save their 1800s West Virginia log cabin before it's bulldozed by developers. The team must battle a huge porch, two tricky chimneys and a stubborn addition in order to get the logs out.
Modern Mansion Makeover
The team gives a modern mansion a complete log cabin makeover complete with log skins and a stacked log entryway.
Barnwood Wedding
Mark and the guys build a barnwood dance floor, a timber-frame photo booth, an incredible handcrafted arbor and more for a farm wedding.
Alabama Lake House
The Barnwood Builders fight through mud and heat to turn the salvaged Shaver House from West Virginia into a two-story lake house in Alabama. Mark experiments with new construction products, and everyone ends up in the lake.
The Honey Hole
Mark needs a lot of inventory in a hurry so he buys three cabins on a remote farm. It's a fast-paced triple takedown full of suspense, strategy and plenty of big crashes!
Victory Lap
Mark Bowe checks up on some remarkable cabins and barns that started out as Barnwood Builders salvage jobs but are now completely restored homes.
Montana Barn Battle
The crew squares off against their toughest barn yet -- a stubborn old timber frame with wooden pegs, metal spikes, steel bolts and lots of beams. But saving it is worth the effort because it will be rebuilt for a veterans group.
Operation Hero
Mark and his team take on their hardest build ever for their most important client: America's wounded warriors. The guys work side by side with veterans to construct a giant timber frame lodge for Project Healing Waters.
Barnwood Gold Mine
The crew salvages a variety of barnwood off a massive Ohio barn, but to save it all, they have to battle a dangerous roof. Mark Bowe finds a flooring company with a new idea for old wood and visits an incredible timber frame home.
Hidden History
The crew saves an Ohio barn built with incredible craftsmanship and Mark scouts another barn that turns out to be a keeper. Later, he visits a massive timber-frame barn that was restored and converted into a restaurant.
Restoration Week
The crew restores two cabins and builds a barn door for their blacksmith shop. Mark Bowe scouts an old log cabin and drives through a river to visit the fishing cabin he and his crew built two years ago.
Lone Star Boneyard
Mark Bowe and the crew start a new boneyard in Texas by building a timber frame barn and two log cabins with some help from their new business partner.
Go Big or Go Home
The guys put a roof on their Texas timber frame, Mark's log cabin gets a Texas-style makeover, and he gets some help from his new neighbors, the Junk Gypsies.
Battle-Ready
Mark Bowe works in Texas while the guys build a cabin in Virginia with their favorite crane operator, Mark Battle.
Hillbilly Lemonade
The team gets creative while trying to make something worthwhile out of a lackluster cabin.
The Finished Product
Mark Bowe visits finished cabins he helped build in Montana, Texas, South Carolina, West Virginia and North Carolina. Then, there's a big surprise waiting for him in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Tennessee Treasure
The crew rebuilds the Minor Hill cabin in Franklin, Tennessee. Mark Bowe checks out a log cabin addition to an 1806 stone home and then tours a local whiskey distillery built inside a timber-frame barn.
Split Crew
Half the crew is in Ohio to save an 1830s log home, while the other half is back in West Virginia to tear down an old log barn.
Good Neighbors
Mark and the guys take down a dangerous barn for their new neighbors and build a replica of Abraham Lincoln's boyhood cabin. Graham learns to make bentwood furniture, and the teams visits a stunning opera house.
Barnwood Cottage
The guys turn a new storage shed into an 1800s log cabin, then drive it to Round Top, Texas. Mark gets a lesson from a local silversmith, and the team visits historic structures built around the state by 19th-century pioneers.
Boneyard Makeover
The team encloses part of their shed with walls so they can work year-round, finishing off the new space with multi-colored barn wood. Mark also explores a German housebarn and visits a beautiful log home built along a cliff.
Teach and Train
One half of the team restores a log cabin at the West Virginia Boneyard, the other half teaches some young men how to build a cabin in Tennessee. Meanwhile, the guys visit a shop filled with old-time treasures.
American Muscle
The Barnwood Builders create a timber frame barn for a private collection of American muscle cars in Columbus, Texas. Mark explores the buildings, trees and history in the surrounding area.
Barnwood Bonanza
The team salvages a ton of barnwood from a barn in one of America's oldest pine forests and Mark finds the perfect example of a hand-painted barnwood billboard.
Bank Barn Brawl
The Barnwood Builders head back to Brookville, Pennsylvania, to save the frame of a bank barn that sits dangerously close to a road. Then, Mark visits an old log lodge resort and scouts an amazing timber frame barn built in 1895.
Wedding Chapel
A couple enlists the crew to build a log chapel which will be used as a venue for weddings in Waynesboro, Virginia. Later, Mark tours an old Texas church and visits a 1795 log-built bed and breakfast.
Dairy Barn Danger
In Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, the Barnwood Builders save one of the biggest barns they have ever seen. Mark explores an extraordinary early 19th century bank barn made of stone and finds an old pioneer springhouse and root cellar.
Barnwood 4-H Camp
The crew visits the oldest statewide 4-H Camp in the country and teach a team of teenagers how to build a log cabin. Mark and Sherman compete as archery coaches and Johnny learns the pioneer craft of paper marbling.
Biggest Barn Ever
In Texas, the Barnwood Builders raise the largest timberframe they have ever built by combining wood and steel. Along the way, they battle hundred degree temperatures, and Mark explores a renovated inn with the Junk Gypsies.
The Apprentices
In North Carolina, three young interns working alongside the Barnwood Builders save an extremely remote cabin in the hills. Back on the Boneyard in West Virginia, the young men are put to the test during the restoration.
Two Businesses
While Mark Bowe is on the road looking for crafts to sell in his other store, Sherman leads the crew building a log cabin kitchen near Alexandria. Then, things get wild as Mark carves a 10,000-year old mammoth tusk for Sherman.
Piece En Piece
The Barnwood Builders go back to school when Mark Bowe buys a cabin with an unusual design called Piece en Piece. There is one surprise after another and even an ingenious Sherman Thompson invention.
Sweet Home Louisiana
The guys transform a timber frame barn into a modern home for an architect in Louisiana. As they build, they explore the rich architectural history of the Bayou State then visit a cabin Mark repaired years ago.
Barnwood Backyard
The crew takes the week off to build furniture, cut trees and plant gardens in their own backyards in West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Also, Mark Bowe visits the finished Catskill Cabin in Shawangunk, New York.
Saving the Cabin That Saved the Company
Mark Bowe and his crew work to salvage a cabin that saved their business. It takes a variety of surprising repairs to bring it back to life, but once it's up, Katherine has the best surprise of all.
Texas Teamwork
The crew travels to Fredericksburg, Texas, to rebuild a special cabin they saved in Ohio. Mark Bowe checks out a a wine bar built from a barn saved in West Virginia and visits a home built with log skins and reclaimed materials.
Barnwood Blowout
The crew saves barnwood from a dangerous barn in Lewistown, PA. Mark Bowe scouts an old log cabin in Missouri, a barn in New Hampshire and a home in Texas. Alex and Tim visit the longest covered bridge in Pennsylvania.
Team Barnwood
The Barnwood Builders restore a cabin with major challenges, and Mark visits the finished log-skin mountain home designed by Karen Tillery. Also, Katherine works at the boneyard blacksmith shop while Alex makes a table from salvaged floorboards.
Coming Home
The Barnwood Builders save an exceptional log cabin as they help a local sheriff return to his family farm in Middlebourne, West Virginia. And in Alabama, Mark Bowe visits the finished lakeside cabin designed by Karen Tillery.
Double Duty
The team divides and conquers as half the crew builds a secluded hunting cabin in Guyton, GA, while the other half strips a pre-Civil War cabin in Monroe County, WV. Later, Mark Bowe visits an extraordinary round barn in Pennsylvania.
Just in Time
Mark finds a barn being torn down in Pennsylvania and buys it on the spot. The crew goes the extra mile to rescue the beams as Johnny deals with overhead wires and Sherman works with one good arm. Later, Mark visits the largest bank barn in the state.
Harvesting History
The team discovers a pre-Civil War cabin that's practically perfect in Ballard, WV. The guys go to extraordinary lengths to save the old home, and Mark teaches his son some valuable log cabin lessons.
Human Resources
After welcoming a new team member, the guys build a custom timber frame and a new log cabin. Then, Mark Bowe visits a West Virginia factory that creates wooden barrels, and Alex Webb creates a hall table using reclaimed flooring from an old barn.
A Million Little Things
The Barnwood Builders have a million things to do on the Boneyard. As they prep two cabins and complete an endless list of tasks, Sherman works with blacksmith Glen Bryant to create a branding iron, and Mark Bowe visits one of the first cabins he built.
Kentucky Home
The crew visits Johnny Jett's hometown of Morehead, KY, to save an old barn, and Mark challenges the two junior members of the team to take down a few logs. Johnny takes the guys to see an old grist mill that's close to his favorite covered bridge.
Mountaintop Retreat
The Barnwood Builders travel to Eagle Rock, Virginia, to build a spectacular dogtrot cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tim Rose travels to Halifax, Virginia, to see the finished log cabin they built five years earlier at the Springfield Distillery.
Carving Out a Life
In New Freeport, Pennsylvania, the Barnwood Builders save a cabin with incredible stone work, and the guys learn pioneer stone techniques from a local expert. Later, Mark visits two incredible restorations and Alex makes a barnwood wedding gift.
The Five-barn Farm
The guys salvage five tobacco barns on one farm in Alton, Virginia, while Mark hunts for even more barns in Pennsylvania. Mark also visits an incredible finished home made of two cabins combined with a salt box addition.
Out of this World
Down in Virginia, the Barnwood Builders recreate an 18th-century log chapel and save an old barn using modern equipment that looks like it came from outer space. They build a bench with a chainsaw artist, and Johnny Jett learns to play golf.
Inspiration
The Barnwood Builders travel to Walton, WV, to save the barn that inspired Mark Bowe to start his business 25 years ago. The guys find some fun treasures, Sherman makes a special gift and Alex visits a workshop that makes some of the finest pipe organs.
Building a Brighter Future
The Barnwood Builders teach two young apprentices how to build a timber frame barn in Weston, West Virginia. Mark Bowe explores the finished 4-H cabin at Jackson's Mill, and Mark Battle checks out a finished mountain top retreat in New Market, Virginia.
Homemade History
The Barnwood Builders restore a timber frame home on a frozen field in West Virginia. Mark and Johnny visit an extraordinary mountain top retreat with a log home and timber frame pool house, and Alex Webb builds a lord's table and bench at his workshop.
Design Drama
In the hills of Alabama, the Barnwood Builders take on their most-complicated build ever to create a monster-sized wedding pavilion dreamed up by designer Karen Tillery. It's the perfect marriage of wood and steel!
Family Fishing Cabin
The Barnwood Builders travel to Kentucky to help Sherman Thompson build a fishing cabin for his family. With help from Sherman's daughter, Felicia, they stack a cabin with sawn logs, and all that hard work leads up to a big reward for Sherman.
The Barn That Keeps on Giving
The Barnwood Builders finds good things really do come in small packages when they take down a modest bank barn in Punxsutawney, PA, and come away with more lumber than ever expected. Later, Mark tours an 1800s feed mill with most of its machinery intact.
Cabin on a Cliff
The Barnwood Builders climb the Alabama mountains to build a cabin for designer Karen Tillery, but the jobsite becomes a big challenge that forces the crew to dig into their bag of tricks. Mark Bowe visits a pre-Civil War log house he saved with his son.
Keep on Grindin'
The Barnwood Builders travel to Johnny Jett's hometown of Goddard, Kentucky, to save a 19th-century gristmill. Johnny takes a tour of his artist studio and shares some treasures from his front porch, while the guys visit a cabin replicating life in 1815.
Camp Barnwood
The Barnwood Builders are back home in West Virginia building their very first A-frame structure. With repurposed materials from the Boneyard, they construct a camping cabin from start to finish to create a wilderness oasis called Camp Barnwood.
Fun in the Field
The Barnwood Builders have a whole lot of fun in Abingdon, Virginia. While saving an old barn, the guys explore the local history as they work with a master craftsman, operate an old sawmill, explore a restored cabin and even drive an antique tractor.
Smoky Mountain Magic
The Barnwood Builders head to Gatlinburg, TN, to build a cabin in the Smoky Mountains, but a narrow access road makes it difficult to reach the job site. Johnny and Graham take in the local arts and crafts, and Larry Melton stops by to surprise the crew.
Treasure Time
In Blountville, TN, the Barnwood Builders find a true treasure: a log cabin built in 1818. Mark teaches the new crew members how to scout log cabins, they take a trip to historic Blountville and Johnny Jett gets to knock over an old home all by himself.
Log Cabin Treehouse
The Barnwood Builders create log cabin treehouses in the Smoky Mountains of Sevierville, TN, and must maneuver the logs through trees to reach the raised platforms. Later, the crew explores a cabin that served as the capitol of the Southwest Territory.
Swing Beam Barn
The Barnwood Builders take down an 1839 swing beam-style barn in Blairstown, New Jersey. While Mark works on his New Jersey accent, the guys explore a Christmas tree farm, work with a beekeeper and visit a craftsman who makes brooms the old-fashioned way.
Paris Puzzle
The Barnwood Builders head to Paris, Texas, to turn an 1800s cabin into a bridal suite, but they suffer a setback when most of the logs are missing tags. Mark and Teeshawn explore the Texas countryside, and the guys visit an extraordinary blacksmith shop.
Lone Star Chapel
The Barnwood Builders return to Paris, Texas, to build a one-of-a-kind timber frame wedding chapel. Later, the guys get a motocross demo from a professional rider and visit a log chapel they helped build in Virginia to celebrate its 250th anniversary.
A Home Turf Takedown
The Barnwood Builders work close to home and take down a double-pen barn in Alderson, WV. Taking advantage of his home turf, Mark introduces Ryan to a friend and local sculptor who uses scrap metal to make wild and wonderful pieces of art.
Lakeside Log Cabin
In Langston, AL, the team stacks a double-pen cabin on the shores of Lake Guntersville. Then, they work with their favorite designer, Karen Tillery, to transform a 1970s ranch house, but working next to a lake creates obstacles for the boom truck.
If it Fits, It's Finnish
Mark and the crew are called to Pennsylvania to salvage their first-ever cabin built by settlers from Finland. While they're excited to learn a new style of construction, Mark must figure out how to unstack the unorthodox cabin without damaging the logs.
Home is Where the Timber-Frame Heart Is
The Barnwood Builders must think on the fly and use a little ingenuity to convert their largest timber-frame barn ever in their hometown of Lewisburg, WV. Once completed, the massive structure will serve as a grand wedding venue.
American Fortitude
With the help of a local historian and a Revolutionary War expert, the team saves a legendary fort dating back to 1775 in Lake Lure, NC. Later, Mark and Graham visit the Oconaluftee Cherokee Village where craftsmen keep the story of their ancestors alive.
Preserving a Local Legend
A museum in Townsend, TN, enlists the Barnwood Builders to restore a 19th-century gunsmith's cabin to be the centerpiece of an exhibit. After repairing the original timbers, the team faces the epic challenge of stacking them flush with a 9-foot ceiling.
Trial and Error
On an ice cold week at the Boneyard, Mark challenges the guys to create a new system of notches to build a timber frame. After some experimentation, the new notches are put to the test alongside salvaged floorboards used to design massive trusses.
Restoring Russel's Fort
The Barnwood Builders return to Lake Lure, NC, to rebuild Russel's Fort, a historic 1770s log cabin they salvaged months before. The fort now has a gorgeous view of the lake, but the build is full of challenges as they work on a dangerously steep site.
The Heart of Appalachia
The crew travels to Wise, Virginia, to save a stunning log home dating back to the 1860s. The Appalachian icon has been in one family for four generations, so Mark and the guys must salvage everything they can, including the extremely rare 36-foot logs.
Log Cabin Cupid
The Barnwood Builders head to Sacramento, Kentucky, where they battle extreme weather to save an extraordinary cabin built in 1853. Mark's clients travel from Colorado to witness the salvage process from start to finish.
Learning by Doing
It's a week chock-full of hands-on learning as the Barnwood Builders travel to Ripley, West Virginia to take down a quintessential log cabin. Mark inspects cabins in need of repair for the nearby farm museum, and the guys visit Ryan's old high school.
Yabba Dabba Double Pen
The Barnwood Builders travel to Flintstone, Maryland to help young homesteaders save a unique double pen bank barn dating back to the 1800s. Along the way, Mark tours a heritage center while Sherman and Johnny get a lesson in the fine art of bird carving.
Legendary Log Homes
The Barnwood Builders build a custom log guest home in Dandridge, Tennessee. As the cabin takes shape high in the hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, Mark visits one of the most famous log homes in the country. Johnny visits a candy store in Gatlinburg.
Bigtime Barnwood
In Corry, Pennsylvania, the Barnwood Builders save one of the biggest barns they’ve ever seen. Along the way, Sherman shares farming stories with the barn owner, and Mark explores the nearby wetlands designed for conservation.
Barnwood Living Pavilion
The Barnwood Builders are building a timber-frame pavilion behind their showroom. Mark wants to build these outdoor living structures as kits using a notching system. While Ryan cooks, Mark visits the Sheriff’s cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Fun on the Farm
The guys travel to West Alexander, Pennsylvania, the heart of farm country, to save a classic bank barn. Johnny visits a local farmer and her pasture-raised animals. And Mark drops by a local farmers' market to buy goodies for the crew.
Modern Day Homestead
Mark and the guys create a rustic family gathering place in Franklin, Tennessee for a homeowner who loves 19th century hand-hewed craftsmanship. The property sits on a former horse farm that now serves as a dog rehabilitation camp.
Barnwood Busy
The guys work on reviving a 19th century cabin they took down in Ripley, WV. For a break, they go to the state fair. Then they go to the Barnwood Living backlot, where they're challenged to make a 30-foot timber frame enclosure using only spare parts.
Vacationland
The Barnwood Builders head to Carthage, Maine where they save a barn from the 1840s. As they uncover the craftsmanship of the old New
England style barn, they have fun kayaking, canoeing, searching for crawdads and even enjoying some lobster rolls.
Barnwood Village
Mark Bowe takes steps to realize his dream of building a small village of finished antique structures behind the showroom in White Sulphur Springs, WV. He and designer, Karen Tillery, focus on the first structure -- a cabin made of factory beams.
A Diamond in the Mud
The Barnwood Builders return to West Alexander, Pennsylvania to save an American gem. Built deep within the backwoods at the bottom of a steep hill, this 19th century barn will prove to be one of their toughest takedowns ever.
Put to the Test
Mark and the guys make the seven-hour trek to Dubois, Indiana to salvage a cabin picked by the youngest member of the crew, Evan. It’s a big step to prove that his apprenticeship days are over.
Appalachian Ancestry
The Barnwood Builders team travels to Berea, Kentucky to save an incredible log cabin built in 1795. As they peel away layer after layer of siding they discover a hand hewn masterpiece of Appalachian craftsmanship.
Bricks and Beams
Mark Bowe and the Barnwood Builders crew build a beautiful, two-story log cabin addition for an old brick home in the rolling hills outside Lexington, Virginia.
Big Time Timberframe
Mark and the guys travel to Patrick, South Carolina to build a huge wedding pavilion, the biggest timber frame they’ve ever created. On a job this big they need some extra help so they bring along Mark’s latest hire and have fun teaching the new kid.
Secrets From the Boneyard
The Barnwood Builders return to the Boneyard to do the work most folks never get to see. This week they'll turn a Kentucky two-story log cabin into a double pen dogtrot and repair a beautiful timber frame barn from Pennsylvania.
Barnwood Builders
Genres
Food & Home, Building & Renovation, Restoration & Salvage
Episodes
17 Seasons Available (170 Episodes)
Release Year
2013
About This Series
Mark Bowe and his team of West Virginia skilled craftsmen salvage antique barns and cabins, repurposing the wood to create stunning, modern homes. While giving 200-year-old structures new life, they share the inspiring stories and histories behind them.
Cast and Crew
Starring: Mark Bowe
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