Offers traditional advice on home designs, siting, construction, and furnishings, and includes antique floor plans

How to Build in the Country

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Berg, Donald J.

Crafts & Hobbies

Ten Speed Press+

Gathers traditional advice about garden planning and preparation, vegetable cultivation, harvesting, and compost making, and describes a variety of vegetables

The Kitchen Gardener's Guide

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Methods

Octavo, PP.144, Old Time Common Sense Advice On How to Plan, Plant &amp; Maintain A Beautiful Home Landscape

The Door Yard

Gardening & Landscape Design

Modern American Dwellings, 1897

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Antiquity Reprints

In this revised and enlarged edition of his popular 1986 book, architect Donald Berg presents time-tested design ideas and building advice from the best of last century's architectural books, builders' guides, farm journals and garden magazines. This new book is arranged as a step-by-step guide for today's country home builder, and is illustrated with hundreds of beautiful old-time engravings.

How to Build in the Country: Good Advice from the Past on How to Choose a Site, Plan, Design, Build, Decorate & Landscape Your Country Home

Donald J Berg

If you're dreaming of moving to the country, retiring to a smaller house or just getting away from big home mortgage and maintenance costs, this is a book that you should take a look at. It's a sourcebook and guide to the best small, simple, inexpensive and easy-to-maintain country homes. Seventeen of America's best country architects and designers contributed 86 plans of vernacular-style cottages, cabins, backyard barns, garages and garden sheds. Home sizes range from just over 2,000 square feet for a traditional New England farmhouse and a gracious Southern cottage with a wrap-around porch, to just 144 square feet for a tiny getaway cabin. Addresses, phone numbers and website information will help you reach any of the designers directly to order construction blueprints or to see additional home designs.

The Backroad Home: Simple Country Designs of Cottages, Cabins, Barns, Stables, Garages and Garden Sheds With Sources for Blueprints, Kits, Building Accessories, catalogs

If you love the look of traditional buildings and need a new garage, guest house, small home, backyard office, stable, studio or workshop, this is the book for you. 
Seventeen talented architects and designers provided drawings of 44 of their best Carriage Barns. All have the charm of yesterday's carriage houses, but they're all modern designs that you can build from efficient blueprints or building kits. Since many of the buildings have flexible plans and optional sizes, there are actually 142 different layouts here for you to choose from. 
The book includes a gallery of 26 authentic 19th century carriage barns for your inspiration, and a directory of 168 catalogs and websites with sources of old-time hardware, vintage timber frames, coach house lamps, stable equipment, cupolas, weather vanes, and much more.

Carriage Barns: Sources of Building Plans, Kits, Products and Services to Help You Create a New Garage, Workshop, Stable, Backyard Office, Studio or Live-In With

"Provides an excellent introduction as well as suggestions for using these plans to add architectural detail to your own home...an excellent bibliography."--Victorian Homes "The best home, barn and landscape designs...in a charming book....[It] contains numerous original illustrations showing a wealth of construction details, site plans and plantings."--Fine Homebuilding This classic bestseller contains the finest collection of architectural designs from a bygone era--and it's a boon for anyone hoping to construct that dream house or add charming touches to a modern one. Hundreds of illustrations from actual 19th century building plans feature architects' blueprints and drawings, full-color photos, and more. The buildings range from humble farmers' cabins to summer getaway cottages for the rich, and there's plenty of detail work, including built-in shelves, dormers, and turned balusters. With this information, an architect could easily create anything shown on the pages.

American Country Building Design: Rediscovered Plans For 19th-century American Farmhouses, Cottages, Landscapes, Barns, Carriage Houses & Outbuildings

Home Improvement & Design

Union Square & Co.

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