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Design and build the ideal garage, barn or workshop yourself.  This easy click-and-drag software lets you create the perfect building and then print plans and a complete list of the materials that you’ll need.

Cuatom RV Garage and Workshop

Custom RV Garage and Workshop

For do-it-yourselfers who want to add extra storage space or just want to protect their car from the elements, BigHammer Software’s Garage Designer is the tool to use. Garage Designer uses a grid system that allows you to precisely create the exact size building you need by clicking and dragging. It is so precise that you can size your building to the inch.

Design your dream garage, workshop or storage barn. Then, click and drag it to the exact size you need. Choose a wall height from as low as 4′ up to 16′ to accommodate RVs and other large vehicles. Then, choose between several types of entry doors and garage doors.

After you’re happy with the design, Garage Designer provides all the information you need to transform your garage, barn or workshop plan into reality. You can see your building in a variety of ways, including 3D, plan, and dimensioned front, back & side views. Then, you can print your custom plans and have them at hand throughout your building project.

You can also print a complete material shopping list. You’ll know all your material quantities immediately so you can get accurate prices before you start to build. Garage Designer assures that you’ll never be caught running back to the lumber yard for forgotten supplies. Instead, you’ll be efficiently constructing your ideal, do-it-yourself garage. Your personal shopping list will help you buy everything you need the first time, right down to the nail.

The inexpensive, downloadable program comes with a free, full color garage building guide book that will take you step-by-step through the construction process.

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Need a shelter for a lawn tractor, ATV, snowmobile or motorcycle? A drive-thru design is a great idea.

This attractive mini-barn, designed and built by Monte Burch, was featured on the pages of Extreme How-To magazine. It’s 8′ wide by 11′ deep with two wide doors at each end. If you have a hard-to-maneuver implement or vehicle, like a garden tractor with a tiller or trailer, you can just drive it in one door and out the other. Of course, you could also omit one set of doors for a more conventional storage shed.

Pole-style construction provides an economical method of building, even if the shed is built on a sloping lot. A dirt or gravel floor makes the little barn easy to drive in to. It also saves the cost of a wooden platform or concrete slab floor. This project is a great way to learn pole building techniques. And, you’ll have a pretty, gambrel roof yard barn when you’re done.

The illustrated, step by step building guide includes clear diagrams and photographs. Monte Birch is the author of Pole Building Projects and other popular do-it-yourself books. He knows how to build and how to explain the process to the rest of us.

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Are you planning to build or improve a home, cabin, barn, garage, shed, workshop or backyard structure? Are you looking for practical and beautiful do-it-yourself projects? Then you should be getting our Back Home Newsletter. You’ll enjoy seeing fresh designs and reading about design ideas that will help you create the perfect project.

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The Back Home Newsletter presents free building plans, videos and woodwork projects from a variety of sources. It also covers inexpensive blueprints, do-it-yourself kits and easy-to-use design/build software. Most importantly, it focuses on buildings and projects that are simple and inexpensive to build and to maintain.

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These small pole-barn plans are designed to look like traditional American farm barns and carriage houses. You can use one as your garage, workshop, horse barn or storage building.

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In previous posts, I’ve mentioned how pole-frame construction saves cost by eliminating the need for continuous frost wall foundations, and by making floor slabs optional. I also told you that lofts are the least expensive way to get extra storage space in a permanent building. Lofts take up no additional land on your property, so there’s no cost of site work. And, they use same roof as a one-level building would need, so much of the construction of the extra storage space is free.

A Custom Barn from the Applewood Plans

A Custom Barn from the Applewood Plans

What happens when you combine the two? Well, you get a very economical building that actually looks better than most pole barn designs. Lofts make pole barns look like traditional American farm barns and carriage houses.

I designed a series of pole-frame buildings with lofts and drew up inexpensive plans a few years back. Hundreds have been built across the US and Canada. They’ve been featured in The Old House Journal, Mother Earth News and many other magazines. People use them as yard barns, garages, horse barns and workshops.

All of the blueprints come with a variety optional shed-roof structures for the sides and back of the main barn or garage. They let you customize your building to the size and shape you need. They also let you build small now and expand later with your choice of add-on garages, workshops, carports, greenhouses, storage sheds, horse stalls, run-ins and equipment shelters,

If you’re looking for a practical and attractive accessory building for your home, please take a look. You might find just the set of plans that you need.

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