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Highlights from Season 11 of Barnwood Builders 01:50
A crew of West Virginia master craftsmen salvage antique barns and cabins. See what they get into this season!
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Mark Bowe and his crew of West Virginia master craftsmen salvage antique barns and cabins. Let's meet the guys and see what the team encounters along the way.
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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.
About the show
Barnwood Builders follows fun-loving West Virginians who salvage antique log cabins and barns. The show celebrates the American pioneer spirit, and pays tribute to the hard work and craftsmanship that built our nation.
Episodes
See Episode GuideBarn 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.
Fancy Cabin Takedown in Minor Hill
Mark Bowe and his crew work through layers of architectural history to uncover an original pioneer home in Minor Hill, Tennessee, and they hear stories from family members who lived in the cabin. Mark also visits a beautifully restored log home with its own extensive family history.
Log Castle in Cave Spring, GA
The Barnwood Builders 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. Mark also visits a small log cabin with a lot of charm and gets his first look at the completed Alabama dog trot the guys stacked for a client.
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.
Mountaineer Volunteers
Mark donates a timber frame to his alma mater, West Virginia University, as the latest addition to their pioneer heritage center. The Barnwood Builders work side-by-side with WVU volunteers to raise the timber frame barn by hand, teaching them how to build bents, cut pegs and even hew a log.
The Apprentices
In Leicester, 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.
Dairy Barn Danger
In Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, the Barnwood Builders save one of the biggest barns they have ever seen. This dangerous demolition demands the best of everyone. Mark explores an extraordinary early 19th century bank barn made of stone and finds an old pioneer springhouse and root cellar.
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.
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 where they famously make pickles on the side.
Dairy Barn Danger
In Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania, the Barnwood Builders save one of the biggest barns they have ever seen. This dangerous demolition demands the best of everyone. Mark explores an extraordinary early 19th century bank barn made of stone and finds an old pioneer springhouse and root cellar.
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.
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 where they famously make pickles on the side.
The Apprentices
In Leicester, 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.
Barnwood 4-H Camp
The Barnwood Builders visit 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, Johnny learns the pioneer craft of paper marbling and Mark learns about cows for the first time in his life.
Two Businesses
While Mark Bowe is on the road looking for hand-made crafts to sell in his other store, Sherman leads the crew building a log cabin kitchen near Alexandria. Things get wild as Mark carves a 10,000-year old mammoth tusk for Sherman, builds a custom wallet out of bison hide and wanders into a store with a stuffed giraffe.
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. Afterwards, they visit a cabin Mark repaired years ago and an historic French-Creole house nearby.
Piece En Piece
The Barnwood Builders go back to school when Mark Bowe buys a cabin with an unusual design called Piece en Piece. It's a combination of timber frame and stacked logs that none of them have ever dismantled. There is one surprise after another and even an ingenious Sherman Thompson invention.
Two Businesses
While Mark Bowe is on the road looking for hand-made crafts to sell in his other store, Sherman leads the crew building a log cabin kitchen near Alexandria. Things get wild as Mark carves a 10,000-year old mammoth tusk for Sherman, builds a custom wallet out of bison hide and wanders into a store with a stuffed giraffe.
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. Afterwards, they visit a cabin Mark repaired years ago and an historic French-Creole house nearby.
Piece En Piece
The Barnwood Builders go back to school when Mark Bowe buys a cabin with an unusual design called Piece en Piece. It's a combination of timber frame and stacked logs that none of them have ever dismantled. There is one surprise after another and even an ingenious Sherman Thompson invention.
Barnwood 4-H Camp
The Barnwood Builders visit 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, Johnny learns the pioneer craft of paper marbling and Mark learns about cows for the first time in his life.
Taking Down The Lincoln Cabin and Building A Dog Trot
Mark and the guys work to dismantle a barn built by Abe Lincoln's uncle around 1830. Can they save the 180 year-old logs? Back on the Boneyard, they use old tobacco timbers to build a new barn in the Appalachian dogtrot style.
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.
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.
Salvaging a Homestead Corn Crib with a Hometown Barn Raising
The guys salvage a homestead corn crib with a good old fashioned barn raising.
Wading with Alligators to Build a Two-Story Hunting Lodge in Florida
Mark Bowe and the guys take the bones of an old Virginia log home down to Florida, where they turn it into a two-story hunting lodge. Mark makes mouth-blown wavy glass for the windows and dives in an alligator pond to get some long leaf pine for the floors.
