A 2025 barn in Idaho, a glulam post-and-beam structure with prefabricated shear walls, arrived with the exterior timber primed and ready for final finish.
The owner sprayed a water-based finish that reads weathered, and the result looks exactly like what the building is: barnwood. The structure does the architecture; the finish just tells the truth about it.
That is the end of the field guide: from the first question to the last coat of finish. If a project of yours came to mind along the way, that is the right time to bring us in.
Adapted with permission from a note by our colleagues at Red Falls Timber Co.
