Beautiful Stall Upgrades for a Texas Horse Farm

Two different barns, two different types of stalls.

True North Show Horses, LLC is tranquil and spacious property located in Collinsville, Texas. After spending some time in northern Texas, the Sanders family fell in love with the area and ranch they now happily call home. They moved to Collinsville, the heart of North Texas horse country from the Pacific Northwest in 2015. Here their vision of breeding and raising quality APHA and AQHA show horses would come to life.

Recently American Stalls worked with True North to install a stall system in their brand new barn and make upgrades to several stall fronts in the existing barn. The project took ten weeks to complete with weather, holiday and material delays due to COVID. One of the biggest challenges was to maintain a hard finish date to accommodate upcoming foaling projections that weren’t going to wait for anyone.

New Barn

The new barn is a steel pole barn kit which is now the barn exclusively for mares and foals. It includes ten stalls which can be turned into six.

American Stalls worked on the interior, providing the stall systems. Everything in the barn is freestanding and nothing is fixed to a post. Each pair of stall systems has a hinged partition for foaling purposes, turning a 12′ x 12′ stall into a 12′ x 24′ stall.

Here, the partition has been opened to create a larger stall.

Exterior barn components including windows were done by Hugh Hamilton of Hamilton Welding Services in Sadler, Texas.

Primary Barn

This beautiful stone barn was already on the property when Sanders family bought it. Originally mares, foals and stallions were all kept in this barn. Now it is primarily used as the stallion barn. The t-shaped barn originally had 15 stalls but was modified to have 13 stalls.

This photo showcases the original stalls in the stone barn. American Stalls went through and retrofitted three of the barn’s stalls to include new sliding stall doors and added more mesh to the stall fronts for stallions. The remaining stalls were left as is.

From an aesthetic aspect, one of the client’s biggest goals was make sure the stalls looked rustic. They wanted a Western themed barn. The stall doors were coated in a tan powder coat since there is a lot of tan in the existing space. American Stalls worked closely with the contractor to go back and forth with measurements, but this process was relatively simple.