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| Barn: Preservation &
Adaptation |
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Barn preservationists
Elric Endersby and Alexander Greenwood take readers on a tour of
barns throughout America. he book discusses the form and function of
American barns. It gives their complete history--from Colonial times to
the present, the old and the new--and illustrates the incredible range
of styles of these structures. Barn explores
renovations, interior design options, and structural and cosmetic
changes that have kept these traditional farm buildings vital and
functional into the twenty-first century. Order
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| Complete Plans for
Building Horse Barns Big and Small |
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This
new and completely revised color edition provides even more information
to help you bring your dream of a horse barn to reality. Two leading
barn design experts present outstanding examples of 22 different barns,
from the elaborate to a simple run in shed. Determine the best type of
barn to suit your number of horses, climate, function and zoning
requirements. Receive sound guidance on site selection and prep,
planning, materials, and construction. Whether you are a
do-it-yourselfer or hiring an architect, one of these well designed,
soundly constructed, attractive and economical barns could be more
attainable than you think. Also includes a restoration guide for
revitalizing the barn that already exists. Order
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American Country Building
Design
Rediscovered
Plans for 19th-Century Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns,
Carriage Houses & Outbuildings |
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This
classic bestseller contains the finest collection of architectural
designs from a bygone era--and it's a boon for anyone hoping to
construct that dream house or add charming touches to a modern one.
Hundreds of illustrations from actual 19th century building plans
feature architects' blueprints and drawings, full-color photos, and
more. The buildings range from humble farmers' cabins to summer getaway
cottages for the rich, and there's plenty of detail work, including
built-in shelves, dormers, and turned balusters. With this information,
an architect could easily create anything shown on the pages. Order
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How
to
Build Animal
Housing
60 Plans
for
Coops,
Hutches, Barns, Sheds, Pens, Nest Boxes, Feeders, Stanchions, and Much
More |
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An
indispensable guide
for small-scale farmers, hobby farmers, and animal lovers, How
to
Build
Animal Housing helps you
evaluate the housing needs of your animals
and provides dozens of adaptable shelter plans, including sheds, coops,
hutches, multi-purpose barns, windbreaks, and shade structures. Carol
Ekarius
has your animals' best interests in mind and begins with a careful
discussion
of animal welfare, behavior, and general safety issues.
You’ll
also get
tried-and-true advice on the importance of planning ahead and budgeting
adequately. The detailed plans are supplemented with an entire section
dedicated to construction techniques. Reviewed in The
Book Stall. Order
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Barns, Sheds and
Outbuildings
Plan, Design, Build |
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Written with the
do-it-yourselfer in mind, Barns,
Sheds & Outbuildings
gives readers the information they need to plan, build, and finish a
utility building. This revised and expanded edition presents a variety
of buildings, from the simplest garden shed to a huge gambrel dairy
barn, to even a backyard artist's studio. Part One begins with design
and planning information to help potential builders locate their
building, decide on its design, and decode architectural plans and
building codes. Individual chapters detail the basics: building
foundations, framing walls and roofs, closing in the framing-which
includes all types of roofing- and siding--and window installation.
Other chapters cover the basic wiring and plumbing needs of barns, as
well as options for interior and exterior finish work. Part Two
presents 12 design concepts with photographs and detail views of
various buildings that readers can build. Order
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| How to Build Small
Barns & Outbuildings |
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This
book takes the
mystery out of small-scale construction. Projects are offered with
complete
plans and instructions. The author takes readers step by step through
the fundamentals of general construction -- from planning and laying
out a site to do-it-yourself instructions on framing, roofing, wiring,
plumbing, and much more.
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Barns
and Backbuildings
Designs
for
Barns,
Carriage Houses, Stables, Garages & Sheds with Sources for
Building
Plans, Books, Timber Frames, Kits, Hardware, Cupolas & Weather
Vanes |
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A
complete
guide to
great backyard buildings with ninety four designs of barns, stables,
garages,
sheds and garden structures; plans that you can purchase directly from
their designers; a directory of hard-to-find building products, guide
books,
kits, timber frames and prefab buildings; and good advice on site
planning
and construction. Order
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| The
Ultimate Book
of Historic Barns: History,
Legend, Lore, Form, Function,
Symbolism,
Romance |
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The
contemporary reawakening
of interest in the historic folk buildings of North America has made us
see old barns with new eyes, even as many of these simple, dignified
structures
vanish from the landscape. With spectacular full-color photographs, The
Ultimate Book of Historic Barns
is a fascinating pictorial essay
into
the history, geography, symbolism, ethnic roots, design and technology,
and lore and legend of these vernacular buildings - - the focal point
of
the family farm when agriculture was a way of life for most people. Order
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| Renovating
Barns,
Sheds, and Outbuildings |
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Barns,
sheds, garages,
and storage buildings all age as houses do. And, like houses, they will
eventually need renovation to save them from disrepair and to restore
them
to their former glory. And they can even be converted into spaces that
are once again useful to their owners, including a storage area, a
studio,
or a home office. Reviewed in The
Book Stall. Order
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| Small
Barn Plans
for Owner-Builders |
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A
complete
reference
for managing your own barn building project -- in just four easy steps.
Includes professional construction plans for 12 designs. Includes floor
plans, elevations, building cross-section, floor framing plan, roof
framing
plan, structural details, and a cupola plan! The
Book Stall
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Building a Shed
Siting and Planning a Shed, Building Shed
Foundations,
Adding Custom Details |
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This
well-illustrated guide offers a range of building options, with
complete instructions and plans for four popular projects: saltbox
potting shed, garden storage shed, storage barn, and lean-to tool
locker. Author Joe Truini walks the reader through each step, from
evaluating storage needs to basic construction to putting the finishing
touches on the roof. Over 350 color photos and black-and-white
illustrations are included. Order
Online. |
| Building
or Renovating
a Small Barn for Your Horse |
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Storey
Country Wisdom
Bulletin A-238. Order
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| David
Plowden: The
American Barn |
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A
tribute
to the barn
by the master documentarian of our time. For most of his life as a
photographer,
David Plowden has admired and photographed barns. In recent years,
as
their disappearance accelerated, he made it his mission to document
these
beautiful structures, before they too are lost. The result is this
beautiful
book, his hymn to the American barn. 130 duotone photographs Order
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| Complete
Plans for
Building Horse Barns Big and Small |
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If
you're
mechanically
inclined, this book may be all you need to build anything from a run-in
shed, to a fence, to a six-horse barn with attached cottage. It takes
you
from bare land (including warnings about neighbors, planning boards and
zoning laws) to a full-fledged horse farm. The authors attack their
projects
with common sense and horse-savvy. From water to tack room to feed room
to hay storage, it's all here. Order
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| Horse
Housing:
How to Plan, Build, and Remodel Barns and Sheds |
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A
comprehensive guide
that leads horse owners through the maze of designing, building, or
remodeling
horse barns, featuring 16 plans and 150 color photos.
Order
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| Barns |
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Barns
presents
a broad, fresh, and newly informed visual analysis of one of America's
fundamental building types. In a nation founded on agrarian principles,
with a cultural and physical landscape as vast as it is diverse, the
barn
has long been recognized as an American icon. Drawn from the vast
holdings
of the Library of Congress, nearly 1,000 illustrations provide a tour
of
barns across the United States, from New England to the Great Lakes,
the
South, the Midwest, and the Far West. Barns
traces geographical
and chronological continuities of type, design, and construction, and
the
Dutch, German, French, and Spanish influence. Captions identify each
document
and building, and all images are included on a CD-ROM (runs on both
Windows
and Macintosh platforms, requires Internet access) linked to the
Library's
high-resolution files. Barns is the first comprehensive visual resource
of its kind, an invaluable tool for architects, historians,
students-and
anyone who loves barns. 1,000 illustrations. Order
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| The
Old
Barn Book: A
Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm Structures |
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A
guide to
features
of the North American landscape that reflect the history of each region
includes information about all types of barns and farm structures in
the
United States and Canada, and explains how their designs reflect their
purposes. Order
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| Building
Small Barns,
Sheds and Shelters |
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Provides
basic, easy-to-follow
construction methods for attractive outbuildings. Here's complete
information
on tools and materials; foundations and floors; framing, sheathing and
roofing; windows and doors; wiring and plumbing; and finishing details.
Specific plans and how-to-build instructions for popular home and
family-farm
structures include:
-- Multi-purpose barns
-- Woodshed, toolshed and carport plans
-- Combination small barn/studio
-- Barn-style garage
-- Smokehouse
-- Housing for poultry, rabbits, hogs
Order
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| Building
Backyard
Structures: Sheds, Barns, Bins,
Gazebos & Other Outdoor
Construction |
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Complete
instructions
cover the basics of small shed building that are common to all the
projects,
along with tips on planning, selecting materials, and
choosing a
style and color that looks good, as well as technical aspects
of
selecting a site, dealing with grade levels, and water runoff.
Construction
techniques come with hundreds of photos that show exactly how to lay
foundations,
set up framing, put on roofing, install siding, and finish doors and
windows. Order
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| Barn:
The
Art
of a Working Building |
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A
celebration of an
ancient symbol of shelter and harvest, with more than 200 full-color
photographs
and an informed text by two expert practitioners of the art and craft
of
barn restoration. Here is the barn as history, architecture, heritage,
and, finally, as living space, an example of preserving authentic
structures
to fulfill present needs.Order
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| Building
a Multi-Use
Barn: For Garage, Animals,
Workshop, Studio |
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How
to
build an all-purpose
13' x 24' barn with site plans. Plus how to adapt this basic barn for
use
as a garage, carpenter's shop, artist's studio, apartment, or
garden/animal
shed. Order
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| Barns,
Sheds &
Outbuildings: Placement, Design
and Construction |
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Although
it
dates from
a time before power tools, electricity, and gasoline, this book abounds
in simple ideas that rural householders and farmers find useful today.
Barns, poultry houses, piggeries, corn cribs, ice houses, spring
houses,
granaries, smoke houses, root cellars and even kennels and birdhouses
are
includes in this fascinating compendium from days gone by. Order
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| Michigan's
Heritage
Barns |
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During
her
time as
an art student in New York City, Mary Keithan never imagined that one
day
she would drive the state of Michigan's labyrinthine back roads in
search
of architectural subjects for her photographs. But, in 1990, shortly
after
acquiring an 8" x 10" view camera, she began just such an odyssey. In
the
process she captured on film and preserved images of the rural
landscape's
most endangered visual treasures, its aging, historic barns. Order
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| Without
Right Angles: The
Round Barns of Iowa |
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Black
and
white photographs
of 160 barns with historical and architerical reference. Order
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| Field
Guide to New
England Barns and Farm Buildings |
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A
recognized authority
on historic barn preservation, Visser has combed the New England area
for
the representative barns and outbuildings featured in this collection.
Two hundred of Visser's photographs accompany the text, which includes
accounts from 18th- and 19th-century observers, describes key
architectural
characteristics, historic uses, and special features such as timbers
and
frames, sheathings, doors, and cupolas.Order
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| Barns
and Outbuildings: And
How to Build Them |
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Here
are
time-honored
designs for erecting any farm structure from dairy barn to smokehouse.
It includes 250 historical and practical illustrations.
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| The
American Barn |
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This
beautiful and
nostalgic history of the barn in America features over 200 color photos
chronicling "working" barns--those still being used daily on working
farms
from all regions of the U.S. and Canada. Order
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| The
Round Barn |
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A
first
novel about
desires postponed, thwarted, and sometimes fulfilled. Suzi Wizowaty
weaves
multiple story lines, told in a variety of voices, around the
acquisition
and relocation of a historic round barn by a museum in northern
Vermont. Order
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| Classic
Barns |
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From
the
tobacco fields
of Connecticut to the grain fields of the Midwest, barns rise above
rural
landscapes like cathedrals of the countryside, signposts pointing
toward
America's agricultural heritage. This book examines the
functional,
aesthetic, and almost spiritual appeal of these beloved structures with
more than one hundred stunning, full-color photographs. Order
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| Barns
of
the Midwest |
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Articles
and essays
tracing the origin of barns in Europe and the development of unique
American
types. Several chapters discuss barns meeting the needs of
dairying,
corn/grain belt and tobacco farmers. Order
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| Practical
Pole Building
Construction: With Plans for
Barns, Cabins, & Outbuildings |
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Author
Leigh Seddon offers original plans
for a lean-to barn, horse barn, hillside house, garage/wood shed,
mountain pole cabin, and a coastal house. Pole building construction
saves money, time, labour, and materials because it involves limited
grading, no excavation, flexibility on site, and few materials. Order
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| Barns |
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