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, roofing; windows and doors; wiring and plumbing; and finishing details.

Specific plans and how-to-build instructions for famous home and family-farm structures include:

• Multi-purpose barns
• Woodshed, toolshed, and carport plans
• Combination of small barn/studio
• Barn-style garage
• Underground root cellar 
• Smokehouse
• Housing for poultry, rabbits, hogs
• Various fencing designs

Become more reliant on yourself and your land with the Mother Earth News Premium Issue: Self-Sufficient Living.

Learn how to hatch your flock of chickens, grow food in less space, find your perfect country property, and get your no-mortgage natural cottage. Get the best tips for keeping livestock, harnessing natural energy from a DIY wind generator, and making your own medicine.

Save money and live healthily with all the best tips for living self-reliantly. Feel a true sense of accomplishment with the help of all the tips from Self-Sufficient Living.