Review\nComplementing the step-by-step instructions, materials needed and plans are lots of illustrations along with some colour photographs... While I haven't made any decisions yet regarding a shed in my future, I am enjoying perusing the pages in this book and discovering sheds - and features of sheds - that look promising. -- Glenn Perrett ― Toronto.com Published On: 2021-04-29\n[Review of earlier edition:] Covers all project parts from the foundation to the crowning cupola with everything in between. -- Joy Kraft ― Cincinnati Enquirer Published On: 2007-04-28\n[Review of earlier edition:] Even if it's never before occurred to you to build [a shed], reading this book may provide a sudden rush of inspiration. -- Carolyn Leitch ― Globe and Mail Published On: 2007-08-24\n[Review of earlier edition:] Procrastinate no more: Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders will get you fired up and hammering before you're even back from a lumber-shopping spree. -- Shari Kulha ― National Post Published On: 2013-06-13\n[Review of earlier edition:] Step-by-step advice on planning and building shed, from a simple home for tools to an elaborate Japanese boat shed with a veranda. ― Staten Island Advance Published On: 2007-04-05\n[Review of earlier edition:] Step-by-step advice on planning and building sheds ... along with dozens of hand-drawn illustrations, safety tips, advice on tools and materials and a labor schedule. ― The Modesto Bee Published On: 2007-04-08\nThe humble, and not so humble, shed is one of the most convenient ways of expanding the area of the home. The authors have again revised, updated and expanded their guide in this 4th edition. Most Highly Recommended ― Fire Reviews Published On: 2021-01-25\nProcrastinate no more: Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders will get you fired up and hammering before you're even back from a lumber-shopping spree. 
--National Post 
Even if it's never before occurred to you to build [a shed], reading this book may provide a sudden rush of inspiration. 
--Globe and Mail 
The fourth edition of this classic guide is expanded and updated to include 23 sheds to suit all needs and tastes. It covers all of the issues, from design principles, obtaining permits and safety to basic construction skills, precise explanations of what to buy, how to cut it, where it goes, what to do if it goes wrong and more. By following the book carefully with patience and care, even inexperienced DIY builders can succeed. 
The how-to section is heavily illustrated with plans, assembly cutaway drawings, specifications and finished sheds. The projects list materials, tools, a daily schedule and step-by-step directions. A primer on construction covers framing, foundations, roofing, insulation, windows and more. The designs are based on a basic 8x10 shed. 
In addition to the new designs are the basic sheds (e.g., gardening, firewood), and the more elaborate ones like the Irish Garden Shed, Japanese Boat Shed, a shed on posts and special-use sheds like a pool shed and a wood shed. The authors help the DIY builder think through all of the issues involved in the project, including intended use, size, cost, placement, degree of difficulty and much more. 
This new edition will inspire homeowners to create the ideal functional addition to their property. It will help them decide on the right plan, finesse it for their needs and tastes, shop for materials, organize their time, and put together their one-of-a-kind shed.

Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Stiles, Jeanie

Stiles, David

Gardening & Landscape Design

Firefly Books

Remember the handcrafted mischief of the gangs on The Little Rascals, Gilligan's Island, and The Swiss Family Robinson? This cleverness is back in the old-fashioned fun of Treehouses and Other Cool Stuff You Can Build. Imagine building an old-fashioned go-cart, an A-frame treehouse, a portable lemonade stand, a seesaw, a scooter skateboard, a tub fiddle, and even the ultimate in entertainment-an erupting volcano. Also included is a useful section on carpentry tips and tools such as: Sawhorse, Saw Guide and Crosscutting, Ripping Wood, Pilot Holes and Drilling Screws, Toolbox. Author bios David and Jeanie Stiles have been writing "how-to" books together for the past twelve years. Most recently, the couple built a treehouse on The Today Show in Rockefeller Center in New York. They divide their time between New York City and East Hampton, where they live in a renovated barn.

Treehouses and other Cool Stuff: 50 Projects You Can Build

Gibbs-Smith

Live large by building small! Do you daydream about downsizing your living space? Or perhaps you long for a more eco-friendly and sustainable way of life. The tiny house movement continues to gain popularity as more and more people look to simplify their lives and reconnect with nature. Building Small is your key to joining the tiny house revolution with designs for homes as well as a range of backyard buildings including workspaces and sheds. There's tons of practical how-to construction advice including best practices, common pitfalls and tips for the do-it-yourself carpenter. Within these pages you'll find: • Complete plans for seven tiny houses • Strategies for outfitting your tiny house with lighting, water, heating and waste removal • Ideas for floor layout and interior design • Success stories and inspirational photos of tiny homes Whether you're considering a timber-framed cottage or a modular cube-style home, Building Small offers a wide range of approaches for planning and building your small structure.

Building Small: Sustainable Designs for Tiny Houses & Backyard Buildings

Crafts & Hobbies

Popular Woodworking Books

Build your own treehouses, swing sets, skate ramps, Ninja courses, and more! Kids and families of all ages are rediscovering the great outdoors, including their own backyards. It is more important than ever to be able to entertain our kids at home, teach them about nature, and give them a great time building, exercising, staying in shape, and working together. All of these actions help foster independence, confidence, and growth. In Do-It-Yourself Backyard Playgrounds, authors Jean and David Stiles offer user-friendly plans (all hand-drawn by David) and step-by-step instructions to help you build something great in your own backyard. They offer a range of easy, timeless projects that can be made in an afternoon--trolley ride, treasure chest, circle swing, lemonade stand--alongside more ambitious projects, like the warped wall and treehouse. Learn how to build a complete Ninja adventure course and see how the treehouse can double as a home base for the adventure course that radiates from it! &nbsp; The book includes photos of projects (during construction and completed), and explanatory step-by-step illustrations.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Backyard Playgrounds: Build Amazing Treehouses, Ninja Projects, Obstacle Courses, and More!

Skyhorse

Build a lifetime of Memories 
 Whether simple or architecturally fanciful, a playhouse can be a magical place for your child. David and Jeanie Stiles use their own experiences to guide the amateur carpenter through the steps necessary to build an imaginative playhouse -- for the backyard, basement or playroom. 
 Designed to be put together with easy-to-obtain materials and common handyman tools, with clear step-by-step diagrams, these playhouses can be constructed by anyone who has basic carpentry skills (or a willingness to learn) and a weekend or two of spare time. 
 Projects include: A cardboard-box playhouse, a gingerbread playhouse, a fiberglass whale, a barn bed playhouse, a spook playhouse, a U.F.O. playhouse, a tree house, a log playhouse, a garden trellis playhouse, a three-legged fort and a complete selection of accessories.

Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Weekend Project Book Series)

Home Improvement & Design

"Clear, practical book ... full-color photos help do-it-yourselfers realize their dreams." -- Log Homes Illustrated The best-selling Cabins is back in print, at the same great value of its original price. This authoritative how-to title gives readers all the information they need to build their own cabin, including: <li>A useful list of essential questions to consider during the planning process 
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<li>Types of cabin construction, such as pole built, stick built, post and beam, stone, cordwood, wood siding, and the advantages of each 
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<li>Site preparation, foundations, windows and doors, ladders and stairs, insulation, roofing, electricity, water systems and heating 
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<li>Essential information on log cabins 
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<li>Cabin designs and their advantages 
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<li>Furnishings and accessories Construction methods are clearly illustrated in meticulous line drawings and precise plans with measurements. Cut-away cross-sections and exploded diagrams give the builder the true perspective and detail needed to obtain the best result, allowing readers to get the most enjoyment out of their newly built wilderness retreat.
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Cabins: A Guide to Building Your Own Nature Retreat

Ideas and techniques for designing and building workspaces inside and outside the home. 
 Workshops are not just for carpenters and builders. The workshops in this book have been designed for writers, artists, furniture makers, boat builders, gardeners, collectors and those who like to maintain and restore old cars. 
 And workshops don't have to be expensive - one of the workshops in this book was constructed inside a closet. Even the most elaborate separate building can be put up for a very reasonable cost if you follow the instructions in this book and do the work yourself. 
 Based on the success of their previous best selling books - Cabins, Sheds and Playhouses You Can Build - the author team of David and Jeanie Stiles have combined their skills and experience to walk you step-by-step through the selection and construction of a workshop that will give you years of enjoyment and add to the value of your house when you come to sell. 
 Just a few of the other fact-filled chapters in this book include:
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Why and Where to Build -- how to design and plan a workshop in your basement, garage, attic, or building an addition or separate building</li> <li>
Building the Workshop -- construction and design fundamentals</li> <li>
Portable and Mini-Workshops -- no matter how little space you have, you can make something worthwhile</li> <li>
Skill Review -- a basic primer on woodworking skills that covers all the basics - no experience necessary.</li> </ul>
 Workshops You Can Build is packed with over 300 detailed and beautiful illustrations by the author which show every step of the building process in detail.

Workshops You Can Build

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Easy-to-follow shed designs with loads of color examples. 
 The new edition of this classic do-it-yourself guide for backyard builders now contains more material and photographs than ever. 
 Sheds helps the do-it-yourself builder think through all the issues involved in designing and building a shed: intended use, size, cost, placement, degree of construction difficulty, and much more. Following a chapter on construction basics, the authors preview each step of building a beautiful and useful shed -- from foundation to cupola, and everything in between. 
 Sheds contains:
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<li>Material lists</li> <li>Cost estimates</li> <li>Step-by-step illustrations</li> <li>New tips and hints</li> <li>Detailed instructions</li> <li>Schedules</li> <li>16 pages of color.</li> </ul>
 Packed with detailed illustrations, plans and commonsense advice, this new edition of the classic book on building a shed is like having a professional carpenter beside you, making the project easy to control and successful.

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

Provides plans and instructions for creating simple storage projects, including under-counter storage, open shelves, bread box, wall file, and bulk storage bins

Storage Projects You Can Build (Weekend Project Book Series)

Stiles, David R.

Chapters Pub Ltd

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Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders

Treehouses and other Cool Stuff: 50 Projects You Can Build

Building Small: Sustainable Designs for Tiny Houses & Backyard Buildings

Backyard Playgrounds: Build Amazing Treehouses, Ninja Projects, Obstacle Courses, and More!

Playhouses You Can Build: Indoor and Backyard Designs (Weekend Project Book Series)

Cabins: A Guide to Building Your Own Nature Retreat

Workshops You Can Build

Workshops You Can Build

Sheds: The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders

Storage Projects You Can Build (Weekend Project Book Series)