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About the Host
Mark Bowe
Mark Bowe, host of DIY Network’s Barnwood Builders, is passionate about honoring the craft of America’s pioneer ancestors and is devoted to ensuring that their work lives on.
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See Episode GuideHope Rises in White Sulphur Springs
After the flood waters recede, the Barnwood Builders join the recovery efforts in their hometown of White Sulphur Springs, WV. The team builds a timber frame pavilion as the centerpiece of a memorial park and the community comes together to build barnwood picnic tables.
Hometown Heroes
Mark Bowe and the guys sit down to talk about a few of their favorite things: cabins and barns. With special guests, never-before-seen footage and hilarious outtakes, the Barnwood Builders are having fun. Mark also talks about his new house and the guys choose their favorite jobs from the last few years.
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.
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 they are there, they work with the client's kids to build a camping cabin out of their ancestor's log home.
Victory Lap
Mark Bowe returns to the finished homes of some of his favorite Barnwood Builders jobs. After months of work, the 100% Cabin, Rose's Cabin, the Boy Scout cabin and many more are living new lives as modern homes.
Rescuing a Massive Barn and Finishing the Lincoln Cabin
The guys rescue a huge double pen barn in St. Meinrad, Indiana. It's the biggest dogtrot style barn they've ever faced. They have to fight through modern layers of tin and barnwood to get to the incredible, pioneer era hand hewn beams. When it's done, Mark pays a visit to the nearly completed Lincoln Cabin.
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.
Repurposing Every Beam from a Pennsylvania Bank Barn
The guys take down a Pennsylvania Bank Barn in hopes of recovering the Long Beams and Huge Sleeper Logs that lay below. They are up against the weather, the machines malfunctioning and the weight of the logs. Mark pays a visit to the finished King Cabin and gives the owners a bench made with some of the repurposed wood from the Bank Barn.
Hillbilly Lemonade
The guys must get creative to make something worthwhile from a lackluster cabin. Later, Mark visits an incredible finished cabin made from logs he salvaged on the first season of Barnwood Builders.
Fighting the Elements to Build a Well House, and Repairing a Damaged Log Home
Mark Bowe and the guys return to their roots in Asheville, North Carolina. They have one day to build a log well house in the driving rain. Once it's up, they have to repair a severely damaged log home nearby. Along the way, Mark visits two of his favorite log cabins.
Victory Lap
Mark Bowe returns to the finished homes of some of his favorite Barnwood Builders jobs. After months of work, the 100% Cabin, Rose's Cabin, the Boy Scout cabin and many more are living new lives as modern homes.
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.
A Barnwood Miracle
The Mt. Olivet Church has been the heart of Pocahontas County, WV, for 137 years. The old log structure is struggling to survive, so Mark and the guys are brought in to take it down so it can be restored and live a new life. As the job comes to a close, however, the community pulls off a surprise ending. The guys then get their first look at Johnny Jett's fully finished Kentucky chapel.
From Texas to Tennessee: A Look Back
Mark Bowe looks back at an amazing season of Barnwood Builders. From Texas to Tennessee and from Ohio to the crew's home in West Virginia, this was a season full of big surprises with new faces, new places and a brand new Boneyard.
Grandma's Cabin
The Barnwood Builders team saves an incredible cabin with huge logs that was nearly lost to a fire in West Virginia. They transport it all the way to Montana for restoration, where Mark returns to see it fully finished inside and out.
New Hampshire Barn: The Whole Story
This one-hour special follows the move of a massive 1802 timber frame barn from New Hampshire to South Carolina, from complicated take-down, through an epic build, all the way to the dramatic finish visit.
Perfect Cabin, Perfectly Restored
The Barnwood Builders discover one of the finest cabins they've ever seen. They take it down in West Virginia, then restore it in South Carolina. Mark returns to see the amazing home fully finished--a perfect cabin, perfectly restored.
The Johnny Jett Special
Machinist, artist, and craftsman Johnny Jett is honored by The Barnwood Builders in this one-hour special. Johnny's most unforgettable moments are highlighted as well as previously unaired footage featuring West Virginia's favorite Renaissance man.
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 unlike any one they have ever taken down. The barn is so big it takes extra hands to get the barnwood down and a crane to lift out the valuable beams.
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.
Building Fort Barnwood
Mark challenges his crew to build a log fort on the Boneyard. They use spare logs and some serious hillbilly know-how to construct a pioneer cantilevered fort, but when the temperature takes an unexpected plunge, the job becomes more difficult.
Hope Rises in White Sulphur Springs
After the flood waters recede, the Barnwood Builders join the recovery efforts in their hometown of White Sulphur Springs, WV. The team builds a timber frame pavilion as the centerpiece of a memorial park and the community comes together to build barnwood picnic tables.
Hometown Heroes
Mark Bowe and the guys sit down to talk about a few of their favorite things: cabins and barns. With special guests, never-before-seen footage and hilarious outtakes, the Barnwood Builders are having fun. Mark also talks about his new house and the guys choose their favorite jobs from the last few years.
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. During the job they meet Larry, who grew up in the log cabin with no running water. In the end, Mark makes him a one-of-a-kind barnwood memento of his childhood home.
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. It's log cabin restoration and repair 101 as Larry learns the ropes, and just when he thinks the experience can't get any better, Mark arranges a final surprise with some very special guests.
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.
