Timber frame barn kits

New England's working barns were timber frames — mortise-and-tenon joinery in heavy timber, built to carry hay lofts and outlast the families that raised them. We cut the same structures with modern CNC precision: barns, workshops, equipment storage, and barndominiums, delivered as ready-to-raise kits.

Start with a catalog frame

Several of our catalog frames carry classic barn proportions and work well as barns, workshops, or storage buildings without design changes:

• 24×30 King's Post (starting at $42,000) — the traditional barn shape: king post trusses, open great-room span, and a loft that works as storage or finished space.
• 24×27 Arch Truss (starting at $52,000) — clear-span first and second floors. The lower level is built for workshop, garage, or equipment use; extendable in 13' bays.
• 20×32 Center Post Colonial (starting at $37,000) — a flexible workshop or outbuilding footprint, expandable in 16' bays as your needs grow.

Every kit ships with the timber cut and labeled, braces, pegs, splines, and hardware, plus engineer-stamped plans. Kits are designed for owner-builder or contractor raising.

Custom barn designs

Dedicated barn layouts — drive bays, lean-tos, gambrel profiles, wider spans, animal housing — are custom work at this point. We design and cut them the same way we cut our catalog frames: you tell us the footprint and how the building needs to work, we produce the design, engineering, and a cut-and-shipped kit quoted for your project.

If you have a barn in mind, start an inquiry with your rough dimensions and use, or read how our custom frame process works. Custom frames are typically 6–12 weeks after approved plans, plus freight.

Barndominiums

A timber frame makes an honest barndominium — real structure, not steel siding pretending. The Arch Truss is the natural starting point: living space above, garage or shop below, with clear spans on both floors. Catalog frames can also be modified toward a barndominium layout as a custom quote.

Wedding & event barns

Wedding barns are big in Maine, and exposed timber trusses are the reason people book them — the frame is the venue. Clear-span designs like the king post and arch truss keep the floor open for seating and dancing, with the joinery overhead as the backdrop.

Venue builds are custom work with their own code requirements. See our dedicated wedding & event barns page, or start an inquiry with your site and guest count.

What a barn kit costs

Catalog frames run $36,000–$52,000 for the cut-and-shipped kit. A custom barn is quoted on footprint and complexity — the frame kit is usually a fraction of total project cost once you add foundation, enclosure, and site work. Our cost guide walks through full-build budgets, and the barn guide covers planning a barn build end to end.

Ready to talk through a barn? Start an inquiry