Timber Home Living

Across the Fruited Plain

Spend a few minutes inside Brent and Jen Moody’s Nebraska timber home, and you’ll be unknowingly carried through a tour of Midwestern farm history. Furniture, fixtures, walls, lighting — even the HVAC system — are creative applications of unlikely materials, including barn siding, corn planter boxes, pulley systems, irrigation pipes and window panes.

In an impressive display of Midwestern know-how, these treasures have been repurposed in vastly different roles from their original use. They all

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