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?

A recent Old House Handyman column about painting the barn at the family farm drew emails from readers who wanted more specifics about how we did the work. We spent more than two days scraping, ...

TOWANDA, Ill. — Advertising signs painted on rural barns were once a common sight across the country in 1920s and 1930s, and they are making a comeback on Jo Morrison’s farm east of Towanda. Laboring ...

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When artist Chip Evans knocked on the door of the Farmhouse Inn at Robinson Farm in Woodstock last year to ask for permission to paint the massive barn there, he got a bewildered response from owner ...

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 ...