Planing barn-board

My brothers in law came up with the idea of making things out of barn board after one of them bought a planer. We have not yet decided what it is we're going to make, though - a floor? Wainscotting? Who knows?

What I can say is that planed barn board is beautiful wood. What a wonderful thing - you take these rotted old gray boards, you run them through a planer a few times, and even though they are a century old, they look like newly milled wood, but with real character.

Here are some of Louis Garnaccia's paintings of barns.

http://www.louisguarnaccia.com/landscapes.html