Q. This week: The question you answered last week about painting a house was in some ways, but not all, pertinent to what I'm going to do this summer - paint my barn. What should I use, latex or oil?

Dad and I measure a good weekend by several factors: the time we spend together, the number of things we can check off of our to-do list and the quality of our Friday night dinner. We hit the trifecta ...

Beginning with the earliest American settlements and continuing into the 18th century, most barns weren't painted at all. Early American barn builders took sun exposure, temperature, moisture, wind, ...

Ever drove down the countryside and wondered why all the barns are painted red? The answer, like most things, lies in our history. New England settlers didn't have enough money to paint their farms.

When Scott Weber first started working for his dad in the painting business, there were plenty of barns needing attention in Walworth County. "We'd drive down a country road and we'd have work all ...

Scott Hagan paints Commodore Abraham Whipple on a barn near Marietta, Ohio. Historians say the shipbuilder lived in the area. The barn on state Route 821, just outside of Marietta on the eastern edge ...

WADENA, Minn. — Hundreds of brightly painted barn quilts brighten the back roads and highways of central Minnesota. Mounted on barns, fence posts, parks and community spaces, these large-scale, ...

Upon taking a barn quilt class at Rocori Senior Center in Cold Spring this fall, I became interested in the history of these decorative squares of wood on buildings that is gaining popularity in ...

LEXINGTON, Ala. (AP) - Imagine taking a three-month tour of the United States and being allowed to use the sides of old barns as a paint canvas. That’s what one woman from Australia is doing. The ...