Colonial Barn Kit Series
Classic New England Style
Colonial
The Colonial style barn is beautiful in its simplicity. The Colonial offers a symmetrical roof line providing a uniform height throughout the inside, and the outside of the barn.
The Colonial Series, of timber frame as well as post and beam barns, offers a single story or 1 ½-story building. It can even be made into a full 2-story home or barn as well with a fully usable second floor.
Colonials can be set up with a cathedral ceiling, a simple loft, or a full second floor with a 40 pound per square foot residential load capacity. Access to the second floor varies from a simple ladder, pull-down stairs, or a full set of hearty hemlock built-in stairs.
Also in the Colonial Series
In Colonial times, a forge housed a hearth and bellows to shape metal. Our Forge Series is quite versatile and very affordable. There are so many uses for the Forge. The Forge is perfect for a workshop, garage, guest cottage, or simple cabin.
Granges, like other manors, were on estates used for food production, centered on a manor house and possibly including other facilities such as a mill. They could farm livestock or produce crops.
Harvest Moon’s Grange stays true to its farming tradition. Granges are perfect homes for farm animals, tractors, with a spacious upstairs to add a wood shop, craft studio, or anything else for that matter.
The traditional mill was a place where businesses could manufacture a product such as grains, cider, and even gunpowder. The term mill came from the fact that the early buildings were powered by a watermill.
Harvest Moon’s Mill is a larger gable style Colonial building. The Mill’s floor plan has a large center aisle with 2 rows of stalls on either side, making it perfect for horse stables. The Mill is often used to store multiple tractors, antique cars, or even a great spot to host a square dance. These beautiful buildings can be set with a partial cathedral ceiling or with no second floor at all. The principal purlin timbers are really something to see.
The Mill can also have decks on both gable ends to sit and relax and view the great outdoors.
HOW BIG WILL YOUR BARN BE?
Stories
1, 1-1/2
Dimensions
Available Depths:
12’ – 48’ or more / main barn
6’ – 20’ or more / shed
Common Depths:
20’ – 36’ / main barn
8’ – 14’ / shed
Available Lengths:
12’ – 120’ or more
Common Lengths:
30’, 36’, 42’, 48’, 56’
HOW DO YOU IMAGINE USING YOUR BARN?
Smaller Barns
Garden or Potting Shed
Tool Shed
Maple Sugar Shack
Smoke House
Out House
Wendy House
Firewood Shelter
Fort
Pool Cabana
Larger Barns
Barn Home Garage / Tractor Barn
Workshop
Horse Barn
Hunting Cabin / Cabin
Studio
Accessory Building
Garage & Apartment
Guest House
WE SOURCE OUR TIMBER IN THE USA
Rough Sawn Hemlock
Planed Hemlock
Rough Sawn Pine
Planed Pine
Rough Sawn Douglas Fir
Planed Douglas Fir
Rough Sawn Red Oak
Planed White Oak
See options below so you can make this barn your own.
Lean-To’s
• Open Air (partially or completely)
• Enclosed (partially or completely)
Length of Barn
Add or subtract a “Bay or Bent”
Roof Overhangs
• Increase or decrease the size
• Straight Cut or Plumb Cut
Barn Doors
• Sliding Barn Doors
• Swinging Barn Doors
• We will make any size you like
Cupolas
• Decorative
• Functional
Timber Frame Accents
• Add a hood over your man door
• Add a rain guard over your garage doors
Gable Peaks
Widow’s Peak / triangular or boxed
Removal of undesired mid-floor posts
Create a structural Truss
• Hammer Beam Truss
• Scissor Truss
• King Post Truss
Insulation
Any of our kits can be insulated without taking away from the frame’s beauty
Raise or lower the wall heights
Loft Area
• Decrease or increase your loft area size
• Create a catwalk
Change your Timber Species
Hemlock, Pine or Douglas Fir
Change your roof pitch
Steeper or shallower
Flexibility is what Harvest Moon does best; please make sure you get exactly what you want.
Typical Kit Inclusions & Exclusions
What's Included
Included in All Kits
- Design Plans
- Architectural elevations & section drawings
- Joinery detail
- Foundation plans
- Engineered and wet-stamped shop drawings including designed foundation / all 50 states
- Pre-Cut Timber Frame
- Species
- Eastern Hemlock / Eastern White Pine / Douglas Fir / Oak
- Rough Sawn / full dimension or planed smooth / nominal dimension (1/2” under)
- Traditional wood joinery with hardwood pegging / no visible metal fasteners
- Posts / typically 8×8’s
- Tie Beams / typically 6×8, 8×8, 8×10 depending on span
- Plate Beams / 8×10, 8×12, 8×14, 8×16 > 8×20 for longer spans
- Ridge Beams / 8×10, 8×12, 8×14, 8×16 > 8×20 for longer spans
- Siding Nailers / 4×4’s these are cut on site
- Knee Braces / typically 4×6 or 4×8 if curved
- Roof System
- Traditional rafter system
- Rafters / typically 4×10 48” on center or 3×10’s 36” on center
- Traditional rafter system
- Traditional Timber Bent System
- Bent rafters / typically 8×12’s at each post location with 6×8 or 6×10 cross purlins
- Species
- Fasteners
- Hardwood pegs
- Lag screws
- Turnbuckles for hammerbeam trusses & scissor trusses (if needed)
- Siding / optional inclusion can be removed if preferred by the customer
- 1×8 (.75” x 6.75”) Eastern White Pine ship-lap boards / kiln dried / random length
- Cut to fit on site
- Roof Decking Boards / optional inclusion, and can be removed if preferred by the customer
- 2×8 (1.5” x 6.75”) Southern Yellow Pine tongue & groove boards with decorative v-groove edge / kiln dried / application pattern supplied / cut to fit on site
- Construction Support
- Specific builder recommendations provided if desired
- Pre-building conversations with customers selected builder
- Phone support prior and during construction
Not Included
- Site prep, foundation & pressure-treated sill plate
- Doors & windows typically / A supplier will be recommended so the customer receives exactly what they would like
- Final roofing material (asphalt, metal, etc.)
- Mechanicals / HVAC, electric, plumbing, etc.
- Nails for siding, roof decking, and loft flooring if applicable
- Interior separation walls
- Installation of kit
Experienced in Tradition
Hand-Cut Details
