Books About Carriage Houses, Sheds, Garages, Horse Barns & Outbuildings
- Sheds & Garages
- by the Editors of Sunset Books
Start with a color picture gallery including 23 photographs of tool sheds, one & two car garages, barn style buildings, backyard structures, & a children's playhouse.
- Garage: Reinventing the Place We Park
- by Kira Obolensky
The book explores many uses for this ubiquitous space, from studio, library, & museum, to soundstage, playroom, & greenhouse. Garage takes this space seriously, after all. This book includes more than 200 color photographs of over 50 garages, shows how to create a garage "room" that meets one's needs for efficiency & style, & provides options for using existing space & floor plans for new structures.
- Additions: Your Guide to Planning and Remodeling - by Better Homes and Gardens, Denise L. Caringer (Editor)
- Building Great Sheds - by Danielle Truscott, Barry Hamel
- Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders
- by David R. Stiles
The book then presents several basic sheds, along with a number of more complex special-use sheds, including a pool shed, an Irish garden shed, even a Japanese boat shed. The all-new storage shed on posts allows you to situate your building of a slope.
Packed with detailed illustrations, plans, commonsense advice & an inspiring selection of color photographs, Sheds is like having a consultant at your side as you work.
- Retreats: Handmade Hideaways to Refresh the Spirit - by G. Lawson Drinkard III
- Rustic Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide
- by David R. Stiles, Jeanie Trusty Stiles
This is a delightful book that promises to deliver loads of fantasy & fun for anyone in need of a rustic place to rest, relax, & retreat from the speed & stress of modern living. The Stiles provide more than 20 step-by-step plans for low-cost outdoor buildings, among them a grape arbor, a hillside hut, a water gazebo (floating!), a log cabin, tree houses, a wigwam, a garden pavilion, a yurt, & a river raft.
- Horse Housing: How to Plan, Build, and Remodel Barns and Sheds
- by Richard Klimesh, Cherry Hill
Whether building a new barn or improving an existing one, Horse Housing is the perfect guide. From finding the best building site to choosing stall latches, this book is chock full of how to tips. It explains in detail which materials are good to use around horses, & how good lighting, flooring, & ventilation make a big difference to both horses & people.
- Barn: The Art of a Working Building
- by Elric Endersby, Alexander Greenwood, David Larkin, Paul Rocheleau
Endersby & fellow authors, using an intelligent combination of pictures, drawings, & text to successfully depict both finished buildings & structural detail, have written the definitive book on barns. They trace the lineage of American barns from their European roots in a lively, readable, informative format. In addition to it's functional qualities, the book is quite handsome, a stunning addition to the library of anyone who likes barns.
- Barns - by Nicholas S. Howe
- Eric Sloane's An Age of Barns: An Illustrated Review of Classic Barn Styles and Construction - by Eric Sloane
- Barns and Backbuildings: Designs for Barns, Carriage Houses, Stables, Garages & Sheds with Sources for Building Plans, Books, Timber Frames, Kits, Hardware, Cupolas & Weather Vanes - by Donald J. Berg AIA
- Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings: Placement, Design and Construction - by Byron D. Halstead (Editor), Castle Freeman (Contributing Editor)
- Backroad Home: Simple Country Designs of Cottages, Cabins, Barns, Stables, Garages and Garden Sheds with Sources for Blueprints, Kits, Building Accessories, Catalogs and Guide Books - by Donald J. Berg
- Carriage Barns: Sources of Building Plans, Kits, Products and Services to Help You Create a New Garage, Workshop, Stable, Backyard Office, Studio or Live-In with Old-Style Charm - by Donald J. Berg
- American Country Building Design: Rediscovered Plans for 19Th-Century Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings - by Donald J. Berg
- American Barns: A Pictorial History - by Jill Caravan
- The American Barn - by Randy Leffingwell
- Building a Multi-Use Barn: For Garage, Animals, Workshop, Studio
- by John D. Wagner
As a guide for dreamers as well as those who are "ready-to-build," this concise yet detailed overview of the construction of a large out-building will serve both beginning & experienced builders. From simple enclosures for storage to workshop space to fully finished living space, Wagner covers all the bases
- Building Small Barns, Sheds and Shelters
- by Monte Burch, Fred Stetson
Extend your working, living & storage areas with low-cost barns, sheds & animal shelters. Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters provides basic, easy-to-follow construction methods for attractive outbuildings. Here's complete information on tools & materials; foundations & floors; framing, sheathing & roofing; windows & doors; wiring & plumbing; & finishing details.
- Complete Plans for Building Horse Barns Big and Small - by Nancy W. Ambrosiano, Mary F. Harcourt
- Horsekeeping on a Small Acreage: Facilities Design and Management - by Cherry Hill, Richard Klimesh (Illustrator)
- Roofs and Rails: How to Plan and Build Your Ideal Horse Facility/a Western Horseman Book
- by Gavin Ehringer, Gary Vorhes, Leo Camarillo
This is a reference book that covers everything from basic windbreak shelters to elaborate show facilities housing many horses. It will help you plan & build your ideal horse facility. Some of the topics covered in this book are: building type & site; construction styles; siding; stalls; climate control; plumbing & much, much more.
- Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings (Library of New England)
- by Thomas Durant Visser
Thomas Durant Visser's field guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, & potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just their structure but their traditions & innovations before the surviving architectural evidence of this rich rural heritage is lost forever.
- A Guide to Medieval English Tithe Barns
- by James W. Griswold
This book is a must for all persons interested in historic barn preservation. It contains a wealth of information & knowledge of early timber-frame construction from the early cruck to post & beam techniques.
- Martha's Vineyard Plan Book: Designs for Houses, Porches, Additions, Guesthouses, Sheds, Garages, Barns, Outdoor Showers, and Garden Structures
- by James S. Weisman
Easy to understand, extraordinary construction plans you can't get anywhere else. Our plans describe homes that have been designed & built here on Martha's Vineyard Island. These plans were designed for real projects & because of this, they are better than 'generic plans' you may find available in most plan books.
- Building Backyard Structures: Sheds, Barns, Bins, Gazebos & Other Outdoor Construction - by Paul Levine, Tom Bengal, Dan Thornton (Contributor)
- Great Garages, Sheds & Outdoor Buildings: 101 Projects You Can Build - by Connie Brown
- Garages & Carports (Quick Guide Series) - by Jack Payne Jones, Timothy Bakke (Editor)
- How to Build Small Barns & Outbuildings
- by Monte Burch
Takes readers step by step through the fundamentals of general construction, from planning & laying out a site to do-it-yourself instructions on framing, roofing, wiring, plumbing, & much more.
- Low-Cost Pole Building Construction
- by Doug. Merrilees, Ralph Wolfe
This one-of-a-kind book will save you money, labor, time, & materials in building a small home, barn, or other structure. Involves limited grading, no excavation for a foundation, use of sites unsuited for other types of buildings, good wind resistance, & fewer materials. You can build it yourself with this book, illustrated with plans, drawings, & photographs which construction techniques are carefully explained.
- Practical Pole Building Construction: With Plans for Barns, Cabins, & Outbuildings
- by Leigh Seddon, Susan Williamson
This is a very complete book that doesn't leave the reader asking for details like so many others. It's written so beginners can understand & it contains all the design criteria, load tables, joint details, & so forth that an experienced builder needs to get a building permit & construct a building.
- Monte Burch's Pole Building Projects: Over 25 Low-Cost Plans
- by Monte Burch
Barns, garden structures, cabins, & sheds . . . every aspect of building is covered, including site, construction, siding, roofing, windows, finish details. Written for frost-free & deep-frost regions.
- Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them - by Rolfe Cobleigh
- Farm Appliances: A Practical Manual And How to Make Them - by George A. Martin, Forward by Denis Boyles
- Farm Conveniences and How to Use Them: Classic American Labor-Saving Devices - by Anonymous, Denis Boyles
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