About this season
Mark Bowe and his crew of West Virginia master craftsmen salvage antique barns and cabins, reusing the wood to create stunning, modern homes. The Barnwood Builders are devoted to salvaging and will stop at nothing to give 200-year-old structures new life, providing entertainment, inspiration and awe along the way.
Episodes (13)
1. Rebuilding Grandma's Cabin in Montana
0.5Aired 24 April 2016 • 60 min
In the Season 3 premiere, the team return to Montana to rebuild Grandma's cabin.
2. Building the New England Barn in South Carolina
Aired 1 May 2016 • 60 min
The guys face a huge build in a family retreat previously featured during Season 2.
3. Saving a Rare Log Springhouse
Aired 8 May 2016 • 60 min
Mark and the guys wade in water to save a dilapidated springhouse, then they rebuild it back at the bone yard.
4. Saving a Hand Hewn Cabin and a Rare Hand Cut Chimney
Aired 15 May 2016 • 60 min
Mark and the guys explore a pioneer settlement, where they save a classic log cabin and re-purpose its rare hand-cut sandstone chimney; Sherman helps local stonemasons turn the chimney into a fire pit.
5. Salvaging Rose's Cabin From the Woods
Aired 22 May 2016 • 60 min
Mark and the guys have to build their own road to reach a cabin that has been overgrown for 11 years; while Rose never got to finish her dream cabin, Mark salvages some of its wood to make a rose inlaid table for her daughter.
6. Building a Double Pen Log Vacation Rental
Aired 29 May 2016 • 60 min
Working with a passionate client, the crew builds a huge double-pen log cabin on a platform 13 feet off the ground.
7. Reclaiming a One-Room Log Schoolhouse
Aired 5 June 2016 • 60 min
The Barnwood Builders go deep in the holler to reclaim a rare one-room log schoolhouse full of history. Back on the boneyard, the schoolhouse gets a whole new life.
8. Rebuilding the 100% Cabin and Restoring a Legacy
Aired 12 June 2016 • 60 min
The guys visit South Carolina to tackle the 100% cabin and renovate it into a hunting cabin.
9. Rocky Mountain Cabin
Aired 19 June 2016 • 60 min
The team brings an Appalachian-style cabin all the way to western Colorado. At the Canyon of the Ancients Ranch, they explore the stacked stone ruins of the ancestral Puebloans and also leave behind a legacy of their own. Before they leave, they also rebuild the Virginia spring house which will support a living roof.
10. Drive-Through Corn Crib
Aired 26 June 2016 • 60 min
Mark and the guys use over 100 antique logs from two tobacco barns to build a dramatic entrance for their client's property. The drive-through double corn crib requires a whole lot of teamwork, and involves some of the trickiest notching they've ever done.
11. Barnwood Leftovers Get Upcycled
Aired 3 July 2016 • 60 min
The Barnwood Builders are finding creative uses for all of their leftovers! Every time they take a cabin down, they end up with extra inventory. So instead of burning the small beams, they'll use them to build a Parts and Pieces Pavilion to sell their scraps as upcycled products.
12. Wild Rock Pavilion
Aired 10 July 2016 • 60 min
In the shadow of the New River Gorge Bridge, the Barnwood Builders work with three centuries of materials and techniques in one project. Using custom 21st century steel brackets and hand-hewn 19th century beams, they create a one-of-a-kind pavilion for the Wild Rock Community Center.
13. Bird's-Eye Barn
Aired 17 July 2016 • 60 min
The guys take down a massive double-pen barn in southern Indiana. While they work to save every log and barn board, Mark visits an incredible lodge built from a different barn they took down in nearby St. Meinrad.