Ultimate Guide: Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings, Updated 4th Edition

This do-it-yourself guide gives you the information you need to enhance your property by constructing barns, sheds, and other outbuildings. Select from dozens of ready-to-build plan packages and order readily available construction blueprints, CAD files, cost estimates, and materials lists.

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Editors of Creative Homeowner

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Build a better backyard!

• Over 100 outbuilding projects and plans for barns, sheds, and garages
• Step-by-step instructions for every aspect of the construction process with coordinating full-color photography
• An overview on planning, tools, materials, and safety tips
• Detailed chapters on foundations, framing, siding, roofing, wiring, plumbing, and finishing touches
• Blueprint plan packages are easily ordered, including PDF and CAD files

Enhance your property with a new beautiful outbuilding! Adding a backyard storage shed, a new detached garage, an attractive playhouse, or any other type of utility building not only improves the functionality of your home, it also adds value to your property.

Whether you want to build one yourself, order a project plan, or you just want to know the basics before you hire the work out to someone else, this updated guide will help! This book contains step-by-step instructions for constructing and designing more than 100 barns, sheds, and other types of outbuildings in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Providing an overview on safety, planning, tools, and materials, you'll also learn everything you need to know about foundations, framing, roofing, wiring, and more. Then, choose between designing and building a shed or barn from scratch, buying a kit, or ordering a plan package within these pages. Inside, you can select from dozens of ready-to-build plan packages and order readily available construction blueprints, CAD files, cost estimates, and materials lists.

Written with the do-it-yourselfer in mind, Ultimate Guide: Barns, Sheds, and Outbuildings will help you prepare, plan, design, and decide which outbuilding option is best for you!