Author : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2013-01-23
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0486156273
Complete plans for 16 low-cost permanent and vacation homes and cabins: wood-frame, A-frame, pole-frame, concrete masonry, and log cabin. Includes sketches, floor plans, hints on construction, materials, location, installments, and much more.
Author : Oliver Kemp
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 048681632X
This vintage guide from over a century ago offers timeless, practical advice on building log cabins. Simply stated, well-illustrated advice ranges from felling trees to furnishing and decorating interiors.
Author : The United States Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 18,6 MB
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1510739823
Homesteading is a lifestyle that people around the world gravitate toward—and for good reason. In today’s high-stress world, many people dream of heading off to their own cabin in the woods or to their large rural oasis to escape the anxieties and complexities of daily life, to live in a more natural state. Others have embraced the agricultural lifestyle of farming as a career, serving as fundamental contributors to sustaining society. With this classic guide from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), learn about the architecture of rural life and the design elements of these amazing structures. This manual, originally published and distributed in 1972, includes government-issued designs and requirements for log cabins, farmhouses, firepits and barbecues, greenhouses, storage sheds, stables, and more! Black-and-white diagrams and illustrations fill these pages, displaying the intricacies and dimensions of these incredible structures in their entirety. Brimming with ideas and inspiration, Log Cabins and Outbuildings is the perfect starting point for building your new rural retreat.
Author : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1978-07-01
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 0486236315
Complete plans for 16 cabins, vacation homes, and other shelters.
Author : Ralph Kylloe
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1423617096
Room-by-room inspiration for the affordable mountain retreat of your dreams, from the author of Rustic Elegance and Ralph Kylloe’s Rustic Living. A foremost authority on rustic design and furnishings, Ralph Kylloe chose for this book his most inspiring images from twenty years of photographing mountain retreats across America. Richly layered images of living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, and recreation rooms are a springboard for cabin planning and vacation dreaming.
Author : Robbin Obomsawin
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 14,17 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781586853150
Designed to bring the true spirit of cabin style back to its roots, Robbin Obomsawin's latest book Log Cabin Classics is inspired by nostalgic, old-world cabins and filled with tips for meeting today's current needs. Since place-not space-is what true harmony with nature and cabin living is about, Log Cabin Classics includes practical construction advice, straightforward and creative design, advice on using local materials and choosing a site, architectural details, and handcrafted artistry. These principles are applied to a collection of one-of-a-kind plans you can use as springboards for creating your own "log cabin classic." Log Cabin Classics features 20 classic cabin designs under 1,500 square feet. Robbin Obomsawin is the construction manager and general contractor for Beaver Creek Log Homes. She has served as vice president of the American/Canadian Log Builders Association for Handcrafters. She is the author of Small Log Homes, Best Log Home Plans and The Not So Log Cabin. She lives in Westdale, New York.
Author : Derek Diedricksen
Publisher : Storey Publishing, LLC
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 2015-09-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1612123546
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a microshelter of your own. You’ll also find guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable and easy to inhabit.
Author : Sunset
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
A variety of ideas for cabin design accompanied by directions for construction and many photographs.
Author : Judith Miller
Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781849758017
Wooden Houses places the wooden house into a historical and decorative context, explores the decorative potential of wood in our homes and provides inspiration for anyone who appreciates the beauty of this wonderful natural material. Wooden Houses places the wooden house into a historical, social and decorative context, explores the decorative potential of wood in our homes and provides inspiration for anyone who appreciates the beauty and soul of this wonderful natural material. Wooden houses range from rustic log cabins and timbered country cottages to traditional alpine chalets and elegant clapboard houses with shaded verandas. Wood has always played an invaluable part in construction, architecture, and interior decoration and has long been valued for its practical benefits. Indoors, wood surrounds us in so many different ways. Structural elements such as beams and vaulted ceilings become features in their own right. Wood can be used as further embellishment in the form of beautiful panellng or carved and turned banisters and staircases, and in original furniture designs. Whether it is left in its natural state to show the variety of grains and depths of colors, or used as a bare canvas for paint techniques, wood is a beautiful and timeless resource.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1992-10
Category :
ISBN :
Log Home Living is the oldest, largest and most widely distributed and read publication reaching log home enthusiasts. For 21 years Log Home Living has presented the log home lifestyle through striking editorial, photographic features and informative resources. For more than two decades Log Home Living has offered so much more than a magazine through additional resources–shows, seminars, mail-order bookstore, Web site, and membership organization. That's why the most serious log home buyers choose Log Home Living.
