Sheds: The Do it yourself Guide (3rd Edition): The Do-it-yourself Guide for Backyard Builders

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:

• Material lists
• Cost estimates
• Step-by-step illustrations
• New tips and hints
• Detailed instructions
• Schedules
• 16 pages of color.

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.

David and Jeanie Stiles are the authors of 15 do-it-yourself books and write frequently for magazines and newspapers. They divide their time between New York City and East Hampton, New York. For a total escape, they retreat to a one-room cabin they built overlooking a pond in the Hudson Valley.