Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters Contributor(s): Burch, Monte (Author)

Extend your working, living, and storage areas with low-cost barns, sheds, and animal shelters. Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters provides basic, easy-to-follow construction methods for attractive outbuildings. Here's complete information on tools and materials; foundations and floors; framing, sheathing, and roofing; windows and doors; wiring and plumbing; and finishing details. Specific plans and how-to-build instructions for popular home and family-farm structures include:

- Multi-purpose barns

- Woodshed, toolshed, and carport plans

- Combination small barn/studio

- Barn-style garage

- Underground root cellar

- Smokehouse

- Housing for poultry, rabbits, hogs

- Various fencing designs

A recognized authority on building and woodworking, Monte Burch has worked as a contractor, editor, freelance writer, photographer, and former assistant editor of Workbench Magazine. He is the author of more than sixty books with over a million copies in print, including Monte Burch's Pole Building Projects, Building Small Barns, Sheds & Shelters, and How to Build Small Barns & Outbuildings. He lives in Humansville, Missouri.