Tour a Dreamy White Barn in Connecticut

When I first spotted DarkHorse, a private barn built by Sequoia Contracting Company, I knew I had to share it on Stable Style. Alan Megerdichian is the owner of Sequoia Contracting Company, he gave me all the details on this beautiful facility.

“I have ridden and been around horses for the majority of my life. Sequoia has primarily been building custom homes for the past 35 years, but in recent years, we have been in the business of building high-end equine facilities – which has always been a personal goal of mine. Because of my many years in custom home building, I am able to apply my expertise and attention to detail with a unique perspective, as opposed to a traditional barn builder. As a result of previously building a custom residence for the owners of Dark Horse, they were highly confident in the quality of my work and extended free rein to both my team and myself throughout the entire building process of this barn.”

See Part II of DarkHorse here >

The barn is a 36′ x 84′ space with 14 stalls. Three of the stall spaces were used to make room for an indoor treadmill (below).

A local metal crafter fabricated a custom light fixture to go over the treadmill area as well as cabinetry pulls, shelf brackets, and coat hooks for the tack room. Alan also commissioned a glass blower to create custom shades for the light fixture over the treadmill.

The barn has a tack room, powder room, feed room, kitchen, grooming stall and wash stall. There is an office/lounge located on the second floor. The kitchen, office, tack room, and feed room are all conditioned spaces with AC and heat.

Each stall has two cold water spigots to individually fill up the buckets from the aisle. Every stall has its own fan with individual speed controls.

“For the ceilings of the barn, we used tongue and groove pine breadboard and painted them with Benjamin Moore ‘classic grey’, Alan explained. For all the walls of the barn, we used random-width knotty pine tongue and groove boards, stained the boards with pickling stain and applied two coats of water base polyurethane for easy cleaning.”

The stall fronts were manufactured by Sunset Valley Metal Craft in Pennsylvania. No details were spared when it came too the barn floor.

“The aisle has a concrete border that’s been edged and a has a broom finish. Within the concrete borders of the aisle, we used Unilock ‘Copthorne’ as a detail and in filled with Unilock brussels pavers set on one-inch stone dust base,” said Alan.

The tack room offers plenty of storage. It is another beautiful room where function and great design meets.

Custom hooks for the tack room.

Saddles neatly stored and put away.

Inside the feed room, a Smeg mini fridge is used for storing medical supplies.

The wash and grooming stalls are both outfitted with two Infratech infrared heaters that are controlled by timers.

A washer and dryer are concealed behind a sliding barn door.

Here is the bathroom in the barn.

The kitchen.

Sequoia installed a commercial grade ice maker in the kitchen for the horse’s ice boots!

The office located upstairs.

Thank you Alan of Sequoia Contracting Company for sharing this amazing project with us! Be sure to keep up with @sequoiacontracting and @darkhorse_equestrian on Instagram to see even more dreamy photos.

See Part II of DarkHorse here >

Photos by Tim Lenz Photo