Here at Evergreen we’ve been super busy with lots of changes and renovations, one of them being an addition to our old barn. The new addition mirrored the other side (the wash stall and the old tack room). The new addition is the new tack room. It’s much roomier with loft ceilings and semi-carpeted floors. It also has skylights which provide natural lighting and gives the room a more open feeling as compared to the old tack room. When it first began construction it was no more than a cement pad with the shell of the building put up. We had a difficult time getting the long wood beams to our farm though, and had to think of a creative way of getting them safely home. They were too long to put in the car, too long to put in the back of the truck and still be able to turn so our solution was using the horse trailer to haul the wood beams home. It was very apropos considering that the trailer is used to bring horses to our farm and hopefully the new tack room will do the same.
Old Tack room
Then we had to put on the roof…
And then we put on siding and it started to look like a real building!
Next we needed insulation and wiring, good thing Rick was an electrician. :) Then layers of rough hewn oak for that “barn” look.
Once we put insulation in the ceiling we had to drywall it. At this point our deadline was fast approaching so we enlisted in help from the Kids.
Then we had the ceiling dry walled, spackled, wired, the whole shebang. We moved the landscaping, added a bench and a light.
Final touches included painting, carpets, and lights.
We are almost finished moving things in, when we finish we’ll post pictures :)
