Your Favorite Material Items

[peckinpahhombre]

My barn is my most prized possession (I assume you don't mean people). It was build by a Dutch guy who owned the house before me and he loved his wood and it is timber frame (as is the house). After I bought the place I rennovated it and put my mancave on the top floor and my office on the first floor. This is where all my pipe stuff is - I have a lot of space there to store tobacco since the barn is 1800 square feet on each of two floors. As I said, the guy loved his wood (and owned a very large woodworking company here in Niagara), so the thing has 7 solid mahogany double doors on it. They are a bitch to maintain for me though, but they are beautiful. The only external shot I have of the barn is one I sent my brother this past winter when we were in the midst of a really bad snow storm and I was out shovelling the driveway (5 times in one day!). The barn is on the right.

 

[allan]

Peck
I'd love to see the interior space of the barn if you can.
This photo reminds me of winter a'comin in the northeast. Ughh!!

 

[tbradsim1]

My daughter was in the Air Force and a little while in her duty away from her Gun Ship she drove Chuck Yeager,she mentioned to him her Dad was a vet and in the Navy and would like a Flag that flew over the Arizona week later he gave her a box and said send that to your Dad.Seems that they strike a new flag every day over the Battleship and if you ask you can get one from your Congressman. That and my French Marine Beret are my prize possessions.

 

[pchitti]

I really dont own anything I could not live without. Moved every year or so most of my life. Military moves most of child hood. Just continued the trend on my own after that. 3 years ago I got married, so now everything doesnt fit in one car...
Animals, pipes & tobacco, and my shotgun are the only things I would try to save from a fire. Everything else has been lost at one point or another in my life, so no real attachment.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Hey Allan, I need to get the wife to take some, which I have been meaning to do. I built a full pub bar up there (including keg tap) and put a 100 inch projection tv. The wood is the most amazing thing, if you like that sort of thing. As with the house, there is not a single nail in the timber frame - it is all just dowells holding the timbers together. It is very rustic - not "luxurious" in the urban sense of the word. Just wood and craftsmanship.
Another interesting point is that the guy was Orthodox Dutch - he didn't drive a buggy (in fact he drove a Porsche), but TV was not allowed in his religion. So neither the house nor the barn was wired for TV anywhere - was quite the challenge to add this later. Not sure why he didn't do this for resale alone. They did believe in technology somewhat - his mother was old and confined to a wheelchair when he built the house so he put in a full elevator for her. In fact, he even put in a separate wood elevator - so you load up the wood onto a dumbwaiter device outside and then the elevator bring up the wood to beside the fireplace in the l9vingroom. But no TV. Yeesh.