Chris and Keri’s Blog

Here I'm just getting started priming the building. I used an airless sprayer but also went over it with a roller to push the paint into the heavily textured siding. It was much more tedious than painting normal house siding, but still faster than painting by hand.

I did the rest of the painting on a day Keri had to to work so no more progress photos, but here's the finished result. We did a chocolate brown color for the body and a tan for the trim. It ended up using almost twice the paint we expected it would. We're really happy with how it turned out though.

Here's the other side. The two windows on this side are double casement windows (from the ReStore, of course) so in the summer they can be opened for ventiliation. They'll eventually be painted tan to match. The section with the bare OSB will be a 6 foot sliding door when I get around to building and hanging the door. We just closed it off temporarilly so we could get the goats in for now. In the background you can see their temporary shelter I made using the cement forms from the radio tower foundation.

Here's a picture of the inside. On the left you can see the hay feeder and the opening that gives them access to the pen. On the right you can see the three blue plastic feed bins we put their food in and the white PVC thing is feeder for their mineral supplement.

The three ladies were watching us intently through the goat door as we got the barn ready. Always curious to see what's going on.