Covers tools, materials, foundations, framing, sheathing, wiring, plumbing, and finish work for barns, woodsheds, garages, fencing, and animal housing. 264,000 copies in print.
Twenty different homes represent a quintessential American icon, the farmhouse, in a fascinating look at a classic style reinvented and updated for modern everyday living, complete with floor plans, historical details, and more than three hundred color photographs. 50,000 first printing.
This newly revised and expanded version of this bestseller is now in color. Whether you are searching for top to bottom plans to build a horse barn, or simply searching for inspiration and tips, this book is a fantastic resource. From site selection to interior hardware, there are detailed plans and practical advice on building the perfect barn ...
First published in 1881, this illustrated volume presents dozens of practical and fascinating examples of barns and outbuildings, both large and small--complete with floor plans and building instructions.
The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their way of life. A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard ...
A reference guide to barns and other rural structures, this book explains the difference between Dutch and Swedish barns, for example, and those designed for animals or crops. It details their peculiar construction methods and architectural styles, as well as pinpointing their geographic location.
Constructing your own small barn, shed, or utility structure will improve the value and appearance of your property whether you have one acre or a hundred. Plus, building it yourself can save as much as half the cost. Now expert help for the do-it-yourselfer arrives with How to Build Small Barns & Outbuildings, the long-awaited sequel to the ...
The farm has a central place in American life and mystique. Here are beautiful images that capture glimpses of everyday chores, the bountiful land, the unique and varied architecture, and the lives of the people, animals, and crops it supports. The colorful photo vignettes preserve and enliven an endangered segment of our national heritage.
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 included in this fascinating ...
Exploring American farmsteads from the 17th century to the late-20th century, this volume includes 290 interior and exterior photographs as well as much detail about the lives of European settlers in North America.
From the rocky terrain in the North through the fertile pampa of the central provinces, all the way to the mountainous West and cold, desolate provinces of the South, the estancias of Argentina produced the high-quality meat and grain that gave the country one of the world's most powerful economies at the turn of the century. Built in a diversity ...
This newly revised and updated edition of our best-selling book features 18 exciting barn examples, complete with structural specifications such as wind velocity and snow load consideration. Includes new information on environmental considerations, and local building and zoning codes. The authors have enhanced the section on fencing, ever a ...
Farm buildings form an important element in the landscape. In their design they reflect the differences in types and methods of farming between one area and another and between different periods of history. A greay many have been converted to houses or some other use, others have been modified, or demolished or left to decay. The need to study and ...
Traditional designs for British farm buildings, including barns, mills, pigsties, cowsheds, dovecotes, and other types, originated in the Middle Ages and developed through the various agricultural revolutions, until the slump of the 1880s brought an end to new building. Since then changes in the rural economy have led to buildings designed ...
Most rural properties have a large number of buildings which should contrubute to the smooth and efficient running of the farm, but buildings which are poorly located, inadequately maintained or badly designed do not help on this score. For example, a badly designed shearing shed will require extra labour during shearing and reduce the quality of ...
The third edition contains a completely new and exciting chapter on the Vernacular Revival, which carries the story forward from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century, and is illustrated with Dr Brunskill's fine drawings, a feature of the book since the original publication. In addition, the Bibliography has been brought up to date, the ...
Brimming with 257 illustrations, this ecologically aware manual was written in 1881 with the farmer in mind. Its earthy, barn-building theories extend to dog- and bird-houses and are based upon principles that still shine brightly today: light and air, space, cost, beauty, and convenience.
Every building and structure on a farm tells a story. Traveling through time and seasons, countries and regions, this book documents various cultural traditions, styles, and influences reflected in the overall layout of the farm complex (in relation to the landscape) and in the individual structures and building materials. Over 200 color photos.
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