Olivia Nienaber dipped a paintbrush into a can of Sherwin Williams’ Calypso blue last week, wiped off a few excess drips and carefully painted a straight, smooth line onto a white sheet of plywood.

As late-winter brown gives way to spring green, a drive through north-central Minnesota offers some surprising and unexpected flashes of color on barns, businesses and other buildings. The oversized ...

Phyllis DeWys wasn’t expecting to get as inspired as she did while accompanying her husband on a pheasant hunt. “I go out in the field,” she said. “I don’t carry a gun. I don’t find any pleasure in it ...

A Shawano artisan group created a NFL draft barn quilt. Barn quilts are eight-foot-square panels painted as if they were quilts. They are often installed on barns. The Shawano Country Barn Quilt ...

When Rick Carroll retired as a heavy equipment mover, wife Sandy laid down the law. There would be no dozing in front of the TV all day. The pair found plenty to do in their garden, a fanciful ...

BUIES CREEK - At age 90, Burgess Marshbanks figured it was time to take up a new hobby. In the years since his 1982 retirement, Marshbanks had kept busy restoring antique cars. But he was hankering ...

Much of modern farmhouse style — the shiplap, natural materials and distressed finishes popularized by magazines and shows such as HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” — evokes a simpler time in a vague, nostalgic ...