At Home in The American Barn

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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 these days, redesigning these incessantly-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 specializes in the barn as home. Every of the structures featured has been adapted from its original utilitarian purpose to allow for comfortable, joyous living. Built in the beginning as places for work, barns however incessantly demonstrate fine craftsmanship and artistry. This volume emphasizes the rare wonderful thing about these structures and shows during 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 any other. 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 any other, a wall of glass that lets in the sun. At Home in The American Barn shows the way that this will also be done successfully and artfully.

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