Download or read book At Home in The American Barn written by James B. Garrison and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Home in the American Barn examines the fascinating possibilities for living and adaptive reuse provided by the expansive spaces and rough-hewn look of these traditional structures. Nationwide, Americans are turning to structures such as the barn with a mind to renovating them to fit the lifestyles of today, redesigning these often-wonderful places of the past into residential spaces. At Home in the American Barn embraces the dream to slow things down and return to basics and shares some success stories, as made plain by the buildings themselves.This richly illustrated volume focuses on the barn as home. Each of the structures featured has been adapted from its original utilitarian purpose to allow for comfortable, joyous living. Built at first as places for work, barns nevertheless often demonstrate fine craftsmanship and artistry. This volume emphasizes the rare beauty of these structures and shows throughout elegant solutions for living in these beautifully imagined homes. Soaring rafters here allow for dramatic chandeliers in one home or a wall of magnificent bookcases in another. Spaces that are unconventional in a traditional domestic sense here serve as springboards for inspiration that allow for, in one home, a spiral staircase of fantasy made from hand-planed wood, and, in another, a wall of glass that lets in the sun. At Home in The American Barn shows the way that this can be done successfully and artfully.
Download or read book The American Barn written by Randy Leffingwell and published by Crestline Books. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of nearly 400 years of the American barn’s form and function illustrated with more than 200 of the authors stunning photographs. Barns come in many flavors: freshly painted or collapsing, adorned or plain, towering or long and low; tucked away in valleys or spotted from the highway; wood, stone or brick. The American Barn will be treasured by anyone intrigued by the country’s rich agricultural history and these deceptively complex buildings.
Download or read book American Barns written by Jan Corey Arnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-20 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of every working farm and ranch, the barn is an icon of rural America. This book chronicles – and celebrates – all the main types, and looks at how these treasures of early American architecture developed. It explains how a wealth of immigrant construction methods and range of environments and climates resulted in a fascinating variety of barn styles in the United States, from the earliest rare Dutch examples to simpler English types and others in more surprising shapes (round or even polygonal) crafted by the Shakers in the 1800s. It highlights the most notable, famous and historic barns that the reader can visit, and features the efforts of conservation groups to preserve America's barns and find innovative ways to repurpose these glorious old structures as homes and studios – and as living monuments of rural heritage.
Download or read book Quilt Block on American Barns written by Eleanor Burns and published by Quilt in a Day.. This book was released on 2010-04-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Diana created a warm, down-home country feeling with her choice of Kansas Trouble fabrics by Moda. Her quilt fulfills a drem of driving down country roads in America's heartland. It's perfect to snuggle under by the fireplace on a cold winter day"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book American Barns and Covered Bridges written by Eric Sloane and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lovingly written book presents reliable records of such vanishing forms of architecture as the American barn and covered bridge. Delightful anecdotes accompany accurate line drawings of barns attached to houses, an "open" log barn in Virginia, a "top hat" barn in North Carolina, and more. Over 75 black-and-white illustrations.
Download or read book The Old Barn Book written by Allen G. Noble and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From hay barns to corn cribs, from fences to chicken coops, from silos to outhouses, 'The Old Barn Book's' clear drawings, photos, maps, and descriptions make it easy to figure what's what around a farm.
Download or read book Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement written by Suzi Parron and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America’s tourist and folk art map. Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails. With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.
Download or read book Barn Weddings written by Maggie Lord and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideas, advice, and how-to for one of the hottest wedding styles. A barn is a magical place for a wedding. Steeped in history and evoking the simplicity of a place that time has forgotten, the classic American barn has been an irresistible subject for artists, poets, and city folk alike. In Barn Weddings, Maggie Lord offers ideas and advice on how to create a barn wedding, including information on the different styles and décor as well as tips from the pros for making the day a special one to remember. Part indoor, part outdoor, but all beauty, history and romance, barn weddings are as practical as they are rife with opportunity for charm and creativity.
Download or read book The Old Barn Book written by Robin Langley Sommer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial tribute to North America's vanishing rural heritage, as seen in the variety, simplicity, and homely beauty of old barns across the continent.
Download or read book Barn at Night written by Michelle Houts and published by Feeding Minds Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you grow up on a farm, adventures happen all day long - even at night! On a cold winter evening, a father and daughter go out to the barn and are welcomed with a warm scene. Who is awake, who is asleep, and who is just making their first appearance in the barn?Michelle Houts' lyrical poetry paired with Jen Betton's glowing watercolors create a warm and wonderful bedtime story - best shared together.
Download or read book Barn written by Susan Hauser and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2017-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you ever wanted to learn about traditional American barns is here--from barn history to types of barns to pop culture and mythology about barns.
Download or read book Historic Barns of Ohio written by Robert Kroeger and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the glacier-flattened northwest to the Appalachian hills and valleys to the east and south, barns dot the Ohio landscape. Built with wooden nails and mortise-and-tenon joints and assembled with beams hand-hewn from nearby trees, some of these magnificent structures have witnessed three centuries. Many display the unique carpentry of masterful barn builders, including "mystery" wooden spikes and tongue-and-groove two-inch flooring. Sadly, a number of these barns, neglected for years, risk crumbling any day. Join artist and author Robert Kroeger on a trip to each of Ohio's eighty-eight counties to view some of the state's oldest and most historic barns before they're gone.
Download or read book Barns written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H and R Book of Barn Conversions written by Ovolo Publishing, Limited and published by Ovolo Books. This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand new selections of barn conversions in one of our most successful books. The appetite for barns with both traditional and contemporary fi nishes continues unabated. This book is illustrated with hundreds of high quality colour photographs and the full stories of the conversions as well as design, building and supplier contact details.
Download or read book Tuttle s Red Barn written by Richard Michelson and published by Putnam Publishing Group. This book was released on 2007 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining woodcut illustrations with inspirational prose, this picture book follows the Tuttle family, who, through the years, witnessed many historical events as they passed down their farm from generation to generation.
Download or read book The American Barn written by David Plowden and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to the American barn reflects the photographer's visual documentation of numerous structures that nostalgically represent simpler and historical periods in U.S. history. 10,000 first printing.
Download or read book The Round Barn written by Jacqueline Jackson and published by Jacqueline Dougan Jackson. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final installment in a warmly amusing and historically detailed account of a Wisconsin farm family.
