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Small Barn Plans for Owner-Builders

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Only basic info on planning a project and included plans are just a teaser to get you to purchase complete plans. There are much better general barn/shed books.

No one knows more about small barns than Craig Wallin. He builds beautiful little barns and country homes in Washington state. The structures that he designs for Homestead Design, Inc. have been built all across the US and Canada. Here, he gives you a step-by-step guide to planning and building the perfect storage barn, workshop, horse barn or country garage for your place. He gives good, practical, no-nonsense advice on determining the space you need, building and property plans, getting permits, finding good contractors at fair prices, and on do-it-yourself building. This book is packed with plans, details and great ideas. I learned a lot from this book. You will too!

It's marginally useful with hand drawn, black & white diagrams. You do get a sense of what building a horse barn or shed is all about. There are other reference books out there that deal with the subject in a more polished way though.

We've sought advice on building structures for horses serveral times. This is the first book that covers design options, materials, project budgeting and handling a contractor for the do-it-yourself-er or the owner/supervisor. It is a terrific resource for horse owners.

This is a great, thorough, from start-to-finish explanation of how to build a barn for your property. Beautiful, functional plans, expert easy-to-follow construction detail. Even how to manage the building permit process. Highly recommend it!

If only I knew when I built my barn what the author shares in this book, my life would have been so much easier.

I found this book to be an excellent source of information. It has greatly helped me do the planning for the construction of my barn.

The cover bills it as 'complete' plans for 12 different barns- actually, to get complete plans that would be needed to get building permit do construction or buy materials, you have to order a set form the authors website. The book has nice practical ideas about working with subcontactors, and the designs and sources are quite useful.

Compiled and presented by Craig Wallin, Small Barn Plans For Owner-Builders is a practical and impressive reference that will enable any amateur or professional barn-builder to save both money and effort in the process of building a barn on their land. Included are the complete construction plans for twelve of the most popular barn designs. In addition to the in-depth design plans which make Small Barn Plans for Owner-Builders an ideal and economical resource for property owners in need of a barn, Wallin offers cogent step-by-step advice regarding legal codes and regulations, working with building inspectors and contractors, avoiding common construction and design pitfalls, and much, much more.

It was a good book to prepare for a small barn building project.