A Pandemic Woodworking Journey: Turning A Barn Into A Home
WBUR reporter Simón Ríos walks around the dining area of the barn he recently restored. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) It was a crazy idea: we'd sell my mother's house and turn a massive century-old horse barn into a modern abode. The proposal was to go in on a property together just south of Boston, consisting of a house and a barn just steps away. I would live in the house, and Mom and her partner would live in the newly-renovated building designed to their liking. It would bring Mom closer to her son and her granddaughter, and it would allow them to downsize and enter their seventh and eighth decade...