Its already May, 2016 and I feel as if this year is flying by. Before you know it, autumn will be upon us. One of our goals for this 2016 year was to begin keeping a regular blog that shares not only our life in the woodshop but life outside of it as well. So many things have happened in the past couple of months that it has been hard to keep up. To sum it up, I will give you a quick play by play as to what happened outside of our day-to-day woodwork and full time jobs: Janua

​ Last weekend we spent our Saturday helping tear down a portion of a barn in Greenfield, Minnesota that was built over 100 years ago. As we spoke with the owner of the barn, he shared with us some of the history of the barn. This old barn used to be a dairy barn. There was a birthing room for the calves, which was located in the front left corner of the main bar. There was also a special room just for milking, which is what you see coming off of the front of the barn here. L

Hey. It's Kristina & Joe Donner - husband and wife for almost a whole year now. Together, we are just begining our adventure that is: Beams & Boards Woodshop. Based out of Prior Lake, Minnesota we are a team that loves to create. Even growing up, this desire to create things has always been innate. Joe grew up fixing things, going to shop class and tinkering with everything he could. From as early as I can remember, I was drawing, painting, and creating in the majority of my