“A vacation without ever leaving home,” was the MO for these executive homeowners who spend a great deal of time on the road.  The solution: an onsite timber frame sports barn replete with a full kitchen, a lounge, and generous covered wrap-around porches. The centerpiece of this barndominium, is a regulation basketball court designed for their basketball-loving family to be the stars of their own team. The finishing touch is a towering turret that pays homage to the soybean silos of the barn’s Midwest locale.

The barn is expansive and multi-use. It stores farm equipment, keeps the kids busy, and spotlights several high-craft spaces where the homeowners can have large or small family gatherings. It’s a rustic resort with modern amenities, lots of light, and spaces for any recreational activity you can imagine.

“My wife and I also wanted something that represented place—the central prairie of the United States. So, the turret was designed pay homage to the soybean silos that mark our surrounding areas.” Another way that the barn expressed a connection to its surrounding landscape was through its sylvan siding choice.

Pioneer Millworks provided our sister company New Energy Works with both the sustainable exterior siding and interior reclaimed flooring for the barn. On the outside of the building is our sustainably harvested Farmed Board, crafted and aged in the U.S.A. from domestic softwood lumber that has been carefully exposed to natural elements, weathered gracefully over time to give it a classic barn-board appearance.

Our Farmed Board siding provides the perfect visual appeal and a touch of pastoral panache to the high class and large expanse of the barn area.

Installed in all the interior areas, minus the basketball court area, is Pioneer Millworks Settler’s Plank Reclaimed Oak. Salvaged from agricultural timbers and joists from long-enjoyed structures across the north and southeast, this flooring provides history, character, and texture to the inside of the barn.

The perfect marriage of high craft future and an agrarian past, the combination of Pioneer Millworks reclaimed materials with the contemporary amenities of the basketball barn equates to a structure that looks back and forward.

Architect: New Energy Works Design

Builder: Prestige Homes, LLC

Eclipse Engineering 

Photography: Michael Lipman Photography