Product Description

Featuring 27 stunning barn conversions in full colour with the story of each one and details of architects, suppliers and main contractors. Featuring more than 300 colour photographs and over 30 illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13330 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Chuck out the chintz
I work in conservation and wouldn't normally be seen dead with anything entitled 'Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine', but I see so many dreadful barn conversions through work that I was desperate to find any credible UK examples. So whilst it is an education to peer into a world where all men are 'consultants' and women use the word 'homemaker' as a job title without any apparent irony or embarrassment, I have to admit this book is actually more useful than I expected. Tucked away amongst all the chintzy horrors are a few more contemporary schemes which actually exploit the barns' spatial characteristics, and demonstrate the sort of things we try (and usually fail) to encourage people to do.

The text is very engaging, as befits its glossy magazine pedigree, and each project has an interview with the owners detailing their construction horror stories, with floor plans, a cost breakdown and contact details for agents and suppliers at the end. Naturally every other article has a dig at 'the planners' but that's OK, we have broad shoulders, and you should hear what we say about you punters ! But seriously, if you take away one message from this book, it should be 'use an architect'; whatever their style, all the best schemes here demonstrate the 'added value' that only a trained, three-dimensional imagination will bring to designing a building.

Fantastic!
Brilliant, I haven't bought a book by homebuilding and renovating before and going by this they are well worth the money. Full of ideas, facts and something for everyone, from the very, very modern to the traditional. Whatever your style you can get tons of great ideas from this. Excellent!!!!

barn conversions
good book plenty of information about conversions, some good tips about budgets ect,could do with some updates some of the barns are 2001 ect so the cost does not mean alot