Your New Barn
As you make a decision to build your barn there is a great deal on your mind.
Building a barn can be similar to building a brand-new home. Your will be investing in youir new barn – it will be a large monetary investment. Moreover, it will be an important and useful structure. It may be used to store imporant equipment or materials. Your new barn may be the primary shelter for your animals.
You need it to be:
- Well constructed
- Built on time on within budget
- Include the custom features you need and desires
- Have a distinctive style
- Built with quality materials
Key Objectives
A Modular Barn – An Option
Ask some key questions. Study the topic.
Define what you need and want and be specific. Don’t listen to those who may say “you can’t do that” or “you need to be realistic.” Right now, don’t be critical. Let your mind imagine your new barn.
Include in your research the range of construction methods and do not rule out modular barn construction.
Barn Types
“Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.”
Walt Whitman
Consider Your Options
You can build your barn using a timber-framed “traditional” approach or use a modular design and construction method. Both courses will produce a barn with an excellent look and rustic charm on the outside.
However, the design and construction method will be completely different from the ground up.
You may also want to brush up on some barn construction terms and definitions.
People have been building barns using traditional framing methods for centuries. Barns all over the country have been built this way.
However, this method has its challenges, one of which is that it is expensive. A modular barn solution is more manageable. The construction team will build many components of your barn ahead of time. It is, therefore, less costly and simpler too!
This is the case whether the barn of your dreams is a simple or small structure to large expansive projects.
Barns for Horses
Modern barn designs need to promote safety and good health for your animals. Create a beautiful and function barn worthy of your prized mounts.
A Good Option
“It will not always be summer: build a barn.”
Hesiod
Modular Barns: When using a modular barn design and build approach, all structural components are designed and crafted ahead of time to exact specifications. Your barn will not be built in place. Your barn building will be made on a foundation and assembled from the pre-built components that have been assembled somewhere else.
A modular barn building style is modern, allows for customization, and is efficient.
Books On Barns We Think You Will Enjoy
American Equestrian Design
Blackburn Architects leads the world in the design of equestrian facilities that are beautiful and innovative. The firm’s common-sense approach delivers impressive facilities for horses, while at the same time designing a structure that fits into the regional vernacular architecture with pleasing results.
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At Home in The American Barn
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 today.
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Stables & Beautiful Horse Barns
From the private to the historic to the state-of-the-art, a lavish tour of some of the most notable stables in the country. A celebration of horses and their “lodgings,” this exquisite book covers horse country across the United States.
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Visit A Barn Builder
Modular barns are better, less expensive, and more convenient than traditional options.