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Farmstead Outbuilding Designs from North Dakota State University Agricultural Extension Service  Get great ideas from free design plans and building details for useful small farm buildings: farm stands, smoke houses, chicken coops and much more.


Bumper Gate Design
Want to drive your tractor or pickup into your pasture without stopping to open a gate. Here's a clever design from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Purple Martin Birdhouse

Roadside Farm Stand
An attractive and practical 6'x12' portable sales booth with a sheltering roof overhang and sales counters that hinge up to close up shop when not in use.

Roadside Sales Stand
12'x24' Permanent sales booth with a sheltered front counter and built-in display reacks.

Smoke House Design
Design, details and material lists for building a 6'x8' homestead smoke house with wood or concrete block.

Wooden Smoke House
A simple design for a 6'x8' home smoke house with a free-standing fire box.

Poultry Coop
6'x8' Shed-roof design to be built on skids.

Shed Roof Poultry Coop
Permanent 18'x30' building

Hen House
20'x20' Poultry Barn with Straw Loft

Portable Poultry House
8'x12' Coop for 25 hens.

More Poultry and Small Animal Shelters
 

About These Cooperative Extension Plans:  These plans were developed over many years by engineers at U.S. Land Grant universities. They are generally older plans that need to be revised for today's construction methods, codes and standards. They provide design ideas and conceptual information for planning purposes. The plans were prepared through the USDA Cooperative Farm Buildings Plan Exchange.

Buildings must resist various forces from snow, wind, earthquake and use. They also must adhere to local building and zoning codes. A local building inspector, engineer, building supplier, or building contractor can help you determine what is a safe and legal building for your area.

 

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If you can't find a free plan that's just right for you, check out these websites for hundreds of great designs, inexpensive blueprints, do-it-yourself design software and easy-to-assemble barn building kits. 

Do-It-Yourself Garage and Workshop Design/Build Software  Design your own garage or workshop. This easy software from Big Hammer lets you create construction drawings, 3D building views and a materials list. Your one, two or multi-car garage can have a hip or gable roof, doors and windows right where you want them, and materials of your choice. With side walls up to 14' high, you can shelter your car, RV, camper, truck or boat. The software includes a step-by-step building guide.

Design Your Own Barn, Garage or Shed with Plan3D  Plan3D is a new online service that helps you create a new home, garage, shed or barn and then see how it will look on your property. View your work from any angle - inside and out.  Scan existing plans into Plan3D and take a virtual walk through in lifelike 3D. Everything is online so you can get started today.

Barn Plans, arn Kits, Custom Designs and Building Help at aBetterBarn.com  Find barn, stable, garage, shed, pole-barn, workshop and storage shelter plans, kits, designers, prefabs, builders, hardware, barn doors, cupolas, weathervanes and building and restoration guide books.

 

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Have all plans reviewed by your building department or by an experienced building professional who knows local conditions, before you start to build. Plans may have to be modified by a local professional to suit your site's building code and weather requirements.