Contains "over 100 outbuilding projects and plans for barns, sheds, and garages, an overiew on planning, tools, materials, and safety tips, detailed chapters on foundations, framing, siding, roofing, wiring, plumbing, and finishing touches, step-by-step instructions for every aspect of the construction process with coordinating full-color photography. Blueprint plan packages to easily order, along with PDF and CAD files, [and] a terms glossary and...

"One hundred years ago, many hands raised a red-cedar barn. Now the barn stands tall, smelling of freshly cut hay and dusty horses. As the animals wake and wander through its weathered doors, the barn watches the day unfold. Chickens peck, cows shoo flies with swishing tails, swallows fly in and out, and a cat crouches in the grass to hunt for dinner. When peepers start their evening song and the animals settle in their bedding again--the horses in...

Join author Tina Lonski on memorable visits to barns around Blissfield, the small town in southeast Michigan where she grew up. You’ll follow her to a round barn and a Mail Pouch Tobacco barn. Her stories tell of a scary bull eye-balling her and her sisters and a mystery barn with a pile of bones inside. Tina grew up in an area where farming was the major industry and barns were everywhere, some even inside the village limits. Playing in a neighbor’s...

"A steadfast old barn shows she's sturdy enough to save the day. Beam by beam and board by board, Bess the barn is built by able hands to keep the farm's animals safe and sound. Through many seasons and celebrations, that's just what she does, until she starts to sag...and creak...and slump. Then new everything comes along: a new farmer and a shiny new barn. A mean storm arrives not far behind, putting both barns to a dangerous test-can old Bess...

"Barn feels a chill. Her weathervane spins. She braces her beams. A snowstorm begins..."--Cover page [4].

Suzi Parron, in cooperation with Donna Sue Groves, documented the massive public art project known as the barn quilt trail in her 2012 book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement. The first of these projects began in 2001, when Groves and community members created a series of twenty painted quilt squares in Adams County, Ohio. Since then, barn quilts have spread throughout forty-eight states and several Canadian provinces. In Following...