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In the Dec/Jan edition there is a step-by-step description of how to build a pole barn to include a how-to build trusses & roofs.....lots of photos, drawing & simple to follow instructions.....anybody could read that article and build their own barn.

I just posted a blurb on my website about how we used building placement and plantings to hide my huge garage from the street while focusing curb views on our house. You can read it (with photos) here: http://www.theautoist.com/garage-mahal.htm#30 September 2009:

In the new cathedral ceiling entry to my garage, I've made a "boo-boo". My 3-way light circuit operates in only one way. Lemme explain. I have a switch at the door from the breezeway connecting the garage to the house and another where you leave the entry/pantry & enter the garage; they are...

Many of you have followed along as I'm improving the entrance to my garage from the breezeway that connects it to the house and construction of a new full bathroom and upstairs grandson's gameroom/studio apartment/guy's hangout (http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27185). Or, if...

Kinda off topic but could affect anybody considering the build of a new garage... My wife inherited her family's country farm in Tennessee; her family has owned it since before the War of Northern Aggression. The old house was built around 1939 after the original house burned, & somewhere...

As some of you know, I'm building a studio apartment/gameroom in the 2nd floor of my garage....it's primarily a place for my grandson to hang out when he visits. I'm looking for a complete 1971 Chevy pickup grille assembly with headlight bezels. I want to mount it on the wall & store his hot...

Some time ago, I told a very good local contractor who primarily does renovations of 'antique' houses that when he got caught up and had some free time, I wanted him to finish part of the upstairs area I had envisioned during the original construction of my 'GarageMahal'. I also wanted him to...

So, I'm finally getting around to the floors in my garage....does anybody know anything about acid etching? I'm reading all the websites & have seen it in some upscale houses I've visited.....wonder how it'll work in a garage?

Some time ago there was a thread about Kitty Mac Fresh Air Screens (http://freshairscreens.com/description.html). Well, mine came in & I got them installed today. Half hour per door and no more leaves, insects or stray birds inside my garage. And they don't block any sunlight or darken the...

Beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Today, we rearranged the "inventory"...hehehehe Moved a couple of the Midgets into the finished 'Midget Room' - here's a photo (they both have their factory hardtops in place) even though they're still covered with construction dust...I have...

I want to come off the front of the 4-post lift in the photo below & build a mezzanine (about width of 4-post lift) where I can store 2 little MG Midgets...want to build it out of wood...I figure 4x6 posts along the glass wall banded with 2x8 & 2x8 joists - that's easy...however, on the inner...