The WORST episodes of Barnwood Builders
Every episode of Barnwood Builders ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Barnwood Builders!
Mark Bowe and his crew of West Virginia master craftsmen salvage antique barns and cabins, reusing the wood to create stunning, modern homes. The Barnwood Builders are devoted to salvaging and will stop at nothing to give 200-year-old structures new life, providing entertainment, inspiration and awe along the way.

#1 - Topping Out
Season 18 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/18/2024
The Barnwood Builders return to Canaan Valley, WV to finish the biggest commercial structure they've ever built, a two-story, post and beam wellness center with heavy duty steel brackets and intricate scissor trusses inspired by a local church.
#2 - Building a Brighter Future
Season 12 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/25/2021
The Barnwood Builders teach two young apprentices how to build a timber frame barn in Weston, West Virginia. Mark Bowe explores the finished 4-H cabin at Jackson's Mill, and Mark Battle checks out a finished mountain top retreat in New Market, Virginia.
#3 - If it Fits It's Finnish
Season 14 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/21/2022
Mark and the crew salvage their first-ever cabin built by Finnish settlers.
#4 - Rebuilding After the Flood
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/22/2017
Not far from the Boneyard, the town of White Sulphur Springs was devastated by a recent flood. Mark and the guys step up to help their neighbor rebuild, Barnwood style. They repair a garage by wrapping it in barnwood and use log skins to transform a prefab shed into a log cabin playroom. Mark also visits a modern Montana home covered in log skins.
#5 - Turning a Tobacco Farm Cabin into a Tasting Room
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/6/2015
Mark and the guys save a log cabin from an old Virginia tobacco farm and to turn it into a tasting room for a local distillery.
#6 - Hitting the Barnwood Jackpot
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/20/2016
Mark's client wants to use the barnwood from an enormous Pennsylvania bank barn to outfit his Arizona restaurant. It's a beast of a job in the middle of a heat wave, but the Barnwood Builders just won't quit. They save 5,000 board feet of prized barnwood from the cattle stalls, granary floors and 40-foot walls. Mark also pays a visit to another restaurant decked out in barnwood for inspiration.
#7 - The Finished Product
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2019
Mark Bowe visits finished cabins he helped build in Montana, Texas, South Carolina, West Virginia, and North Carolina; a big surprise awaits Mark in Gatlinburg, Tenn.
#8 - High-End Timber Frame Kitchen in Brevard, N.C.
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/25/2017
The crew members build a timber-frame kitchen that will be the centerpiece of a high-end mountain retreat in Brevard, N.C.; later, Mark and the guys visit some of the architect's other spectacular log homes.
#9 - Taking Down The Lincoln Cabin and Building A Dog Trot
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/1/2013
Mark and the guys work to dismantle a barn built by Abe Lincoln's uncle around 1830. Can they save the 180 year-old logs? Back on the Boneyard, they use old tobacco timbers to build a new barn in the Appalachian dogtrot style.
#10 - Design Drama
Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/6/2021
In the hills of Alabama, the Barnwood Builders take on their most-complicated build ever to create a monster-sized wedding pavilion dreamed up by designer Karen Tillery. It's the perfect marriage of wood and steel!
#11 - The Cabin in the Quarry
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/6/2016
The Barnwood Builders float down the Ohio River and land in Paducah, Kentucky, where they try to save a little cabin in a big quarry. The cabin is in rough shape, but these guys don't give up on it. Their time in Paducah is filled with pioneer ingenuity. Alex Makes a chair, Johnny drives a dump truck, Sherman makes a quilt and Mark helps build a barnwood table.
#12 - Team Barnwood
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/19/2020
The Barnwood builders restore a cabin with major challenges. Mark visits the finished log skin mountain home designed by Karen Tillery. Katherine Shelton works at the boneyard blacksmith shop. And Alex makes a table from salvaged floorboards.
#13 - Cowboy Party Barn In New Braunfels, Tx
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/16/2017
Mark and the guys return to Texas to build a gigantic party barn out of an old timber frame. They use old-fashioned tools to retrofit the barn for modern use, and they install a rare swing beam in the center bent.
#14 - Saving a Rare Log Springhouse
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/8/2016
Mark and the guys wade in the water to save a dilapidated Springhouse. Johnny and Tim go exploring while Mark and Graham clean up the spring. Back on the boneyard, they rebuild the Springhouse and finish the inside of the Container Cabin!
#15 - Foldable Cabin
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/3/2017
Mark brings one of his biggest ideas to life, a foldable steel cabin. The crew takes the cabin on its maiden voyage and unfolds it for the first time in the boneyard, then they add a timber frame facade and a complete barnwood interior to finish it off in style.
#16 - Hometown Heroes
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/2018
Mark Bowe and the guys sit down to talk about a few of their favorite things: cabins and barns. With special guests, never-before-seen footage and hilarious outtakes. Mark also talks about his new house.
#17 - Complicated Carriage House
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/30/2016
The Barnwood Builders pull into New Ringgold, Pennsylvania, in a covered wagon, ready to take down and move a very complicated carriage house. They find all sorts of treasures in the 150-year-old pioneer garage before they carefully strip it, lift the roof off in sections and disassemble the beams.
#18 - Blacksmith breakroom
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2018
#19 - Moving the Last Cabin in Roanoke to a Local Resort
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/2015
Mark and the guys go way beyond the call of duty to save the last cabin from the old town of Roanoke, West Virginia. The Fox Sisters show up to watch their father's boyhood home get moved to a local four-diamond resort. And when the job is complete, the community comes out in full force to celebrate the new cabin.
#20 - Hope Rises in White Sulphur Springs
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/6/2017
After the flood waters recede, the builders join the recovery efforts in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; the team builds a timber-frame pavilion as the centerpiece of a memorial park, and community members build barn-wood picnic tables.
#21 - Log Kitchen Drop In
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/11/2016
The builders head to Cashiers, N.C., to build an antique log cabin in the middle of a huge, framed-out modern home; old wood meets new; Mark visits the client's decked-out timber frame barn, and Sherman shows off his horse-wrangling skills.
#22 - Coming Home
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/9/2020
In Middlebourne, West Virginia, the Barnwood Builders save an exceptional log cabin and help a local sheriff return to his family farm. And down in Alabama, Mark Bowe visits the finished lakeside cabin designed by Karen Tillery.
#23 - Mountaintop Retreat
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/28/2021
The Barnwood Builders travel to Eagle Rock, Virginia, to build a spectacular dogtrot cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Tim Rose travels to Halifax, Virginia, to see the finished log cabin they built five years earlier at the Springfield Distillery.
#24 - Rebuilding Grandma's Cabin in Montana
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/24/2016
Mark and the guys travel all the way to Montana to rebuild Grandma's cabin from last season. They give the 150-year old home a whole new life as a cliff-side lodge. They explore the cabins of the wild west and enjoy some Montana Ranch fun.
#25 - Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding in Gatlinburg, TN
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/2/2017
Mark and the guys travel to Gatlinburg, Tenn., to replace a log home lost in the 2016 wildfires; they bring with them the Beam Cabin, but it's no easy feat to move these massive logs up a narrow mountain pass; designer Karen Tillery works with Mark.