"Rob was showing me old fixer-upper houses around Happy as I wanted to get into real estate," McCarrell said. He showed me ...

And of course, his cowboy hat and boots. Daddy had spent part of his retirement from teaching high school fixing up that old metal barn. He collected old items from around the family ranch and ...

who got to work on plans for a new white metal barn shaped like the structure. With 7,000 square feet on the ground floor and 1,000 more on the balcony, the new barn eclipses the old 3,000 ...

Proper use of scale, proportion and simple details can mimic the grace of old barns ... looking barns are designed to be no more expensive, perhaps even less so, than metal buildings.