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This $3.8-million home was made from five reclaimed barns

While it might look timeworn, this newly listed seven-bed, four-bath home in the township of Uxbridge, Ontario—about an hour’s drive northeast of Toronto—was only built in 2018. The sellers, Brad and Maxine Lawrence, bought the land in 2010 with plans to eventually move there from Pickering, Ontario, and build a log cabin–style home for them and their four children. It’s on the market now for $3.8 million.

At the time, Brad was a regular viewer of Barnwood Builders, a TV show about a West Virginia company that converts old barns into modern homes. Inspired by the show, and by fond childhood memories of summer days spent playing in a barn on his family property in northern Ontario, he began fantasizing about taking on an old barn conversion project of his own. 

“So many barns are lost. They just get taken down and plowed under,” Maxine says. “Our home would give these barns a breath of life.”

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