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HOLIDAY SEASON HOURS
The Barn will operate with our regular hours on all days during the holiday season with the exception of the dates below. Our regular hours can be found at the bottom of this page.
Christmas eve 10am to 3pm
Christmas day closed
Boxing day closed
New year’s eve 10am to 3pm
New year’s day closed
Understandably we’ve been getting asked a lot of questions regarding the big announcement we made last of week. The question we are being asked most is, will there still be new arrivals? The answer to that question is yes, there will be new arrivals daily for many months to come. Below are a few photos of new arrivals from the past couple weeks. New arrivals highlights worth noting include an eight piece walnut Anthes Baetz bedroom set, and from our Jodhpur line, the Millbrea four door bookcase.
December 3rd, 2024
The Barn is Closing to the General Public in 2025
Frank, the long time owner of The Barn, is ready to retire. We’ve decided to restructure our business and close our retail operations. We want to thank our many loyal customers for their decades of support. We know many of our customers will be disappointed by this decision. However, it is time for us to move in a new direction, and we hope everyone will respect our decision.
The Barn will close to the general public before the end of 2025. In 2026 and beyond, The Barn will operate as a prop warehouse for film, television, and streaming productions, and the building will be used for production shoots. We will not be open to the general public beyond 2025. An exact closing to the general public date will be announced in the second half of 2025.
As many of our loyal retail customers know, our retail store is not the only aspect of our business. Our business began as a wholesale business, we continue to supply other antique dealers as well as some online stores and auctions. We also supply props and furniture to film & television productions, and we rent out The Barn for production shoots. All aspects of our business will continue in 2026 and beyond, except for our retail store. After we close to the general public, The Barn will be open by appointment only, for set decoration buyers, location scouts, and selected wholesale clients only. We will not have opening hours for the general public, nor will we open to the general public by appointment.
After we close our retail store, we may at some point occasionally open to the general public for a one or two-day sale. However, we have no plans to ever return to having regular hours for retail customers. Operating a retail store like ours is a tremendous time commitment, and we are no longer able to make that time commitment. All announcements related to openings and closings will be made on the What’s New page of this website.
Lots of big changes are coming. To begin, we will be having the first sale in our history. For the remainder of 2024 we will pay the HST on all in stock items! Then starting in 2025 we will have a different sale every week until we close. All this will be on top of our already low prices.
The Barn has been around for so long that we have fourth generation customers. Great grandparents who shopped at The Barn in the 1970’s are brining in their great grandkids to purchase items. We know closing to the general public will be upsetting news for many of our customers. About once a month, one of our customers tells us that The Barn is their favorite store. We truly appreciate those sentiments, and we know some tears will be shed over our closing. Market changes, changes in retail habits and expectations, increased government bureaucracy, and the fact that we are a small family business and are just getting older, are all factors that made our decision to close our retail operations inevitable. For us it just feels like the right time to move on. Again, we would like to thank our many loyal customers for their years, and in many cases, decades of support. There is still some time left, so stop in and say hello, or goodbye as it may be.
Below are some questions related to these big changes, with answers.
When will The Barn close to the general public?
The honest answer is, we don’t know yet, we’ve never done this before. We plan to liquidate a tremendous amount of inventory before we close, and we don’t know how long that will take. We will announce a closing date at some point in the second half of 2025.
Will there still be new arrivals?
Yes, we have thousands of pieces including hundreds of pieces of furniture in storage still to bring in, and there is more on the way. What will change over time is that when we run out of items, they will not be restocked. This is a “get them while they last” situation. Items will not be restocked once we sell out.
Can I still place an order?
Yes, we will continue to accept orders until the end of June 2025. If you want to order a piece from Springwater Woodcraft, Arcadia, Nature Form, or any of our reclaimed wood furniture lines, we will do our best to fulfill all orders. After June 30th, 2025, we will no longer accept any orders. Starting in July 2025, only pieces that are on display will be offered. All sale prices will apply to in stock items only, sale prices will not apply to orders.
Are you liquidating all inventory?
No, our business will continue after we close our retail store, so we are not liquidating. However, some items we carry are mostly for our retail clientele. So, certain product lines will be liquidated, others will not. We also need additional space in the building to accommodate production shoots. So, there will be a significant reduction in inventory before we close.
Are you accepting offers on items?
No, we’ve always had fixed prices at The Barn, that will continue. Some customers want to negotiate on items, some customers don’t. We’ve always believed that having the same price for all our retail customers was the fairest option. However, there will be sales, see below.
Will there be any sales?
Yes, we have tons of inventory to liquidate before we close to the general public. To help that along we’ve decided to have a different sale, bonus offer, or giveaway, every week in 2025, until we close. Every Monday morning, we will post the week’s sale on the What’s New page on this website. We will also have a sign in store with every week’s sale. We are going to have some fun with this, some of the sales are going to be weird, stay tuned.
Will there be outdoor/garden new arrivals for Spring 2025?
Yes, we have a big batch of reproduction outdoor metal birds and wind spinners that is due to arrive in February. Plus, lots of antique outdoor items ready to bring in once the weather warms up. But this will be the last year of spring outdoor new arrivals. Once we run out of stock, that will be the end.
Where can I find updates regarding The Barn?
All updates regarding changes in store hours, opening and closing dates, sales, and everything else relevant to these big changes at The Barn will be made on the What’s New page of this website.
November 25th, 2024
Well, it’s now officially the holiday season because The Barn’s famous Christmas trees with the red lights are up. Lots of antique new arrivals over the last week. A few photos are below.
November 18th, 2024
Just in time for Christmas shopping we received a shipment from our Nature Form line. New Nature Form arrivals included: hand carved canes in 15 different designs, puzzle boxes, handblown stump vases, double stump vases, stump bowls, elephant tables in two sizes, salmon drums, puppets, hand carved elephants, bears, & Iguanas, jewelry boxes, and lots of child’s animal stools.
November 11th, 2024
There are a lot of photos with this update because so much cool stuff kept showing up!
We got in a new batch of Tiffany style lamps. Photos of some of the new lamps are below. Our Tiffany lamp supplier is retiring, and we’ve bought out the last of their remaining stock. So this may be our final shipment of Tiffany style lamps.
We also started unpacking all the vintage Christmas decor that we’ve been collecting all year. Some photos are below. Lots more to come, we are still unpacking.
If you have a big house, we brought in a couple of enormous pieces this past week. There is a photo below of an antique 8foot high two door armoire. From our Jodhpur line we brought in the Cayley Jumbo Sideboard, a photo is below, its 97inches long, definitely jumbo.
Lots and lots of antique new arrivals as well, too numerous to list.
And there is a new shipment from our Nature Form line about to arrive. We will share some photos from that shipment in our next update.
November 1st, 2024
Lots of fun new arrivals since our last update. A terrific collection of antique rulers arrived. We put a batch of vintage newspapers on display a few weeks ago. They sold out quickly, so we put out another batch. A collection of antique wooden vessels also came in. Photos of some of our recent antique new arrivals are below.
On the reproductions side of our business; we had a bunch of new arrivals from our WoW and Jodhpur lines. A couple of photos are below. More photos can be seen on our Reproductions page.
October 21st, 2024
Our long overdue Springwater Woodcraft shipment has finally arrived! There is a new Springwater colour, Aqua! New Springwater arrivals included: lots of 3foot & 4foot bucket benches, ladder shelves, tall sideboards, jam cupboards, panel coat hooks, chimney bookcases, and Tremblant nightstands. Photos of Springwater new arrivals are below.
NOTICE: There is a Clarkson BIA Halloween event on Saturday, October 26th. The Clarkson BIA plans to close Lakeshore road for one block from Clarkson road North to Meadow Wood road from 10:30am until 2:30pm. There will be no vehicle access to The Barn for those four hours. The event will take place from 11:00am until 2:00pm. The Barn will be closed for the three hours of the event. The Barn will reopen after the Clarkson BIA’s Halloween event is over at 2:00pm.
October 17th, 2024
We keep promising photos from a new Springwater shipment. That shipment is finally scheduled to arrive tomorrow! We will share some photos of that shipment on Monday.
In the meantime, we brought in a bunch of new pieces from our Jodhpur line. Highlights from the Jodhpur new arrivals included the Solana Table Group. Solana pieces are made of heavy cast iron bases, and mango wood tops. The cool pinwheel pattern in made by painstakingly attaching individual small wood strips to a solid mango wood case. More photos of Jodhpur items can be seen on our Reproductions page.
We through in a couple of photos of antique new arrivals.
October 8th, 2024
In our last update, we promised photos from a Springwater shipment. However, that shipment has been delayed until next week. So, we brought in lots of antiques instead! We will share Springwater new arrival photos next week.
Highlights from antique new arrivals included a terrific grandfather clock, a bunch of crocks, and 10 new oil lamps. Some photos are below.
Sept 30th, 2024
We brought in lots of antiques over the last couple of weeks, some photos are below. We always try to get in a shipment of reproductions from our Springwater Woodcraft line around this time of year. Springwater benches are popular when the fall weather arrives. They are great for mud rooms, for taking off boots. A shipment of Springwater benches and lots of other fun Springwater pieces, is due to arrive in the next few weeks. We will post some photos of Springwater new arrivals in our next update.
Sept 16th, 2024
We received an overdue shipment of replica tin signs, a new shipment of products from our Nature Form line, and lots of antiques. So, we thought we would share some photos. This Nature Form shipment had a lot of larger items; Canoe bookcases, Tiki totem poles, and some really cool benches and tables. Highlights from the antique side included; chandeliers, lots of chairs, a couple of cast iron water pumps, and a bunch of French furniture.
Sept 9th, 2024
Photos of some of our new arrivals from the past few weeks are below. From our Jodhpur line we finally brought in the Cayley bedroom set. Cayley bedroom pieces can be purchased individually or as a set. On the antique side of things, lots of sterling silver, and brass keep showing up. Both are great sellers at the moment. The last time brass was this popular was in the 1980’s.
