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Barndominiums

Your Guide to a Perfect, Inexpensive Dream Home
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Barndominiums by Chris Peterson offers a comprehensive guide to planning and building your dream barn-conversion home. Packed with real-life examples and stunning photographs, the book explores the benefits and versatility of barndominiums. It includes detailed chapters on design ideas, material choices, construction processes, and styling tips, helping readers create a personalised, cost-effective, and stylish home.
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Format: Hardback
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Ideal for home improvement enthusiasts, DIYers, and anyone curious about innovative and flexible housing options like barndominiums.

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In Barndominiums, you'll find guidance, inspiration, and design ideas to create your own beautiful, affordable home.

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Plan your barn-conversion dream home guided by inspiring real-life examples and practical, cost-effective solutions.

Move over she sheds, the next innovation in real estate is a full-on house! That's right: the customisable and cost-efficient barndominum, offering plenty of space and plenty of style. In Barndominiums, author Chris Peterson, a three-decade veteran home improvement author, tours through barndos nationwide in search of the latest and greatest in barndominium living.

Chapters include:

Why a Barndominium: Learn all about the benefits of the barndominium, including its flexibility, easy design, cost-effectiveness, and more!

Barndominium Gallery: Gain an inside look at barndominium interiors, exteriors, and even some sample floorplans.

Designing Your Own Barndominium: Plan out your personalised dream home, including which materials you'll use, a design guide for specific rooms, and finalising your plans. (Also, pros and cons to prefab vs. custom.)

The Building Process: Your guide to every step of the construction process, including hiring a builder vs self-contracting, site prep, windows and doors, insulation, flooring, and much more!

Choosing Your Barndominium Style: Learn about all the different kinds of barndominiums, furnishing guidelines, colour schemes, accessorising, and outdoor rooms for your customised dream home!

With beautiful photographs from real-life owners and builders, this book will guide you to create your perfect barndominium!

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Library Journal describes this book as "a great introductory book for readers who love home design or DIY books or are interested in learning more about the growing demand and popularity of barndominiums."

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760382264

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 907g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Chris Peterson is a veteran home improvement and design author. Among the many books he has written are 5-Gallon Bucket Book, Building with Secondhand Stuff, Manskills, four books in the Ideas You Can Use series, and many books in Cool Springs Press's BLACK+DECKER Complete Guide series. He has also co-authored numerous home design books with noted media celebrities. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.

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