Love of country: a barn-style Ohio home

As if made to fit, a salvaged wood sign reading 1949 hangs between two thick white oak posts in Deb and Ed Dick’s soaring great-room. “That’s the year of our birth,” Deb says of one of her favorite antique finds. “It just happened to fit perfectly in that walkway.”

Perfect matches are a dominant theme throughout the couple’s timber frame home in Kenton, Ohio, 65 miles northwest of Columbus. Click ahead to read how clever construction serves the couple’s needs for wheelchair accessibility within barn-style design. Find a buying guide on slide 12.