Over 300 striking photographs provide fresh design ideas for the conversion of barns into residences and business spaces. You will see a Pennsylvania stone bank barn converted into a stunning residence, an abandoned dairy barn made livable complete with office space in the old silo, and a Victorian era barn which now links the old farmhouse to the new living space. 

This informative and practical book makes a clear case for renovation versus teardown. In this new age of forced frugality, that's not a bad thing.

And endearing, nostalgic anthology with "down Home" tales of barns and their role in farming by familiar writers. Very nice photography.

The seaside resort towns and rural hamlets of the East End of Long Island, popularly known as the Hamptons, have served as havens for artists since the late 19th century. This book is an insiders look at the converted cedar-shingled barns and renovated farmhouses and cottages that became the studios and homes of artists such as Chuck Close, Robert Wilson, Larry Rivers and Julian Schnabel.