Reinventing The Chicken Coop : 14 Original Designs With Step-by-Step Building Instructions

Build a stylishly modern home for your poultry. Backyard chickens meet contemporary design in this inventive compilation from authors Matthew Wolpe and Kevin McElroy. Reinventing the Chicken Coop presents 14 complete building plans for chicken houses that range from the purely functional to outrageously fabulous, with designs that include water-capturing roofs, built-in composting systems, and modernist architectural details.

Matthew Wolpe and Kevin McElroy are the authors of Reinventing the Chicken Coop. Together they designed and built a chicken coop called “Chick in a Box” in 2010 that won an Editor’s Choice award for design at the Bay Area Maker Faire. As owners of Just Fine Design/Build they produced original pieces of furniture and small structures. Kevin lives in West Marin, California.

Matthew Wolpe and Kevin McElroy are the owners of Just Fine Design/Build, a studio that produces original handmade furniture and small structures. In 2010, they designed a chicken coop called “Chick in a Box” that went on to win an Editor’s Choice award for design at the Bay Area Maker Faire and was featured on theMake Magazineblog, theFarmhouse Modernblog, and theTreehuggerblog. Matthew also is a Senior Mechanician for Furniture and Carpentry at the University of California Berkeley's College of Environmental Design and teaches woodworking at The Crucible, a non-profit arts school in Oakland. Both authors live in Oakland, CA - Matthew in a 120-square-foot tiny house he designed and built.