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Customers' Small Pole-Barn, Garage and Workshop Plans

Are you thinking of building an unusual structure as your new backyard barn, garage, hobby shop, small animal shelter or country store? Architect Don Berg's small pole-barn and pole-frame garage blueprints are all designed to be easily modified to fit your needs. Scroll down this page to see a few of the beautiful little buildings that customers and their contractors created with the help of Don's plans.

"We ordered plans from you of your Ashokan Barn design. It was built over the winter,
painted this past Spring and landscaped last summer.  We get many compliments...it is a structure that demands both your respect and admiration.  We absolutely love it!" - C. and E.B - Middlebury, C
onnecticut

Click on the photos to learn more, to see what the original stock plans look like and to find out how to start on your own custom barn, garage, workshop, studio or...whatever.

Gift Barn

Ashokan Barn Plans  This attractive retail gift shop was created from our pole-barn plans and a little imagination.

 Small Vermont Pole-Barn

Small Vermont Apple Orchard Barn

Cold Spring Barn This little tractor barn, set in an apple orchard in northern Vermont was built with extra windows, a roofed shelter and finishes that matched old barns in the area.

Mini Pole-Barn

Candlewood Shed  Here's a mirrored version of the standard Candlewood Mini-Barn plans, used as a lawn tractor shed in Middletown, New York.

Two-Car Country Garage in Vermont

Two-Car Country Garage in Vermont - Side View

Ashokan Barn  This workshop in Perkinsville, Vermont looks just like the standard two-car version of the Ashokan Barn. But the owner/builder made some pretty dramatic changes. He used the exterior design only and changed his building to conventional stud-frame construction on a monolithic slab.

Connecticut Pole-Frame Garage

Ashokan Barn  This little barn, set in a pretty Connecticut landscape,  differs from the standard design only by the pitch of its roof. That's an easy change that many builders do to match the roof angle of a home or other buildings on the property.

Texas Mini Barn and ATV Garage

Texas ATV Garage

Candlewood Garage  The standard Candlewood Mini-Barn has a garage door on it's eave side and a small shed opposite that. The builder of this little barn, in Davidson, Texas, put doors on the shed to create a perfect size ATV garage.

Small Horse Barn

Chestnut Hill Horse Barn  The graceful custom doors and archways of this little barn in Boxboro Massachusetts open to horse stalls, a workshop and a loafing shed.

Hobby Barn with Loft Office

Barn Loft Office

Cold Spring Barn  This pretty little Wisconsin barn added a sheltering roof area and a finished loft to our standard plans. You can see the loft before and after it was converted into a home office.

Small Sheep Barn in Vermont

Battenkill Barn Our little car and tractor barn was converted into this sheep barn in Rupert, Vermont

Chestnut Barn Plans  Our three-stall horse barn was built as a retail flower shop on a market farm in  Lawrence, Kansas. This building was featured in Mother Earth News Magazine

Mini Pole Barn Potting Shed

Candlewood Shed  This beautiful gardener's potting shed in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, is the stock Candlewood mini-Barn with an added porch and a bunch of extra windows.

Apple Orchard Goat Barn - Interior View with Goats

Candlewood Barn The owners of Edwards Apple Orchard in Poplar Grove, Illinois built this Candlewood Barn with a steeper-than-standard roof a custom cupola and pens for their pet goats.

Flower Farm Pole-Barn

Candlewood Mini-Barn  Here's what the standard Candlewood Barn should look like. A whole website was built to show the construction progress for this little barn on a flower farm in northern Michigan. Take a look to check out the step-by-step process of building a little pole barn.

Small Car Barn

Interior of Small Car Barn

The Woodbury Barn/Garage  The owner/builder of this great hobby barn in the mountains of North Carolina mirrored the original design and added deep roof overhangs and a pretty cupola.

Small Pole Barn and Alabama Sunset

Woodbury Barn  Here's a fairly standard Woodbury pole-barn built in Alabama by a talented photographer.

Stone Coach-House Pole Barn

Ashokan Barn  How fancy can a small barn get? This two-car version of our little pole-barn was built, in Humbolt, Iowa, with stone facing and arched, coach-house doors.

Country Pole-Barn Garage and Carport

Walnut Garage  This big country garage is the stock design, customized with overhead doors, a side carport, a cupola and finishes to match the other buildings on the property.

Tennessee Backyard Pole Barn

Chestnut Barn  This backyard storage barn in Chuckey, Tennessee is a standard Chestnut Barn with an optional side shelter and workshop and some creative use of weathered board siding.

 Little Tractor Barn in Washington State

Candlewood Tractor Shed  The Candlewood mini-barn can be built as a garage, workshop, shed or all-purpose backyard barn. This pretty lawn tractor shed in Washington state was built on a stone foundation and with one fewer door than usual.

Wine Tasting Barn

See More Custom Designs  Don Berg's larger pole-barn plans and big pole-frame country garage blueprints have been used as retail stores, homes, lumber mills, workshops, automobile collectors' garages, artists' studios and more. Every owner and builder made choices of options, finishes and colors to make their buildings unique. Some have added unique features that have transformed them into unique custom designs. Click above see some of them.

"Everyone loves our barn, and comments on how it brings back the ole days of real barns." - A.S., Maryland

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

 

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