This book examines the details of twelve actual barns, ranging in complexity from the simplest sun shed to an eight horse barn with a spacious home overhead.

A guide to planning, constructing, and finishing barns, sheds, and other outbuildings, providing information on permits and codes, sites, tools and materials, foundations, framing, weatherproofing, wiring and plumbing, trimwork, and painting, and featuring designs, with photographs and drawings, for fifteen buildings.

Includes project plans for pole barns, horse barns, milk barns, equipment or machine sheds, garden tool sheds, sheep or goat shelters, canning and food preparation house, workshops, studios, home offices, garages, roadside stands, chicken houses, portable hen laying shelter, insulated dog house, individual calf hutch, child's playhouse.

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 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...