The first steps to
having a great country place are to find a great site and then
to plan it well. Here are some ideas on how to look at property
and how to lay out buildings on your land.
The building site is, of course,
the first thing to be considered. One’s first resolution
regarding it should be to avoid all anxiety to jump into the
road. A house crowding upon the highway loses all dignity and
home-like repose, and gains nothing but dust. Such choice of
location may possibly be an hereditary trait, coming down from
that long ago time, when houses grew up along the faintly-marked
trails of emigration, and closely clung there, as if in mortal
fear of savages and wild animals lurking in the back-ground. But
in these peaceful days, it is in better taste to sit back in a
leisurely and composed way, as if not afraid of one’s own
fields and woodlands, but at home and happy with them. Let no
site be chosen because of its proximity to the road, or because
it is "handy to water." Select the finest spot on the
farm - a place combining, if possible, elevation, eastern and
southern frontage, natural trees, a pleasant outlook, and make
all else conform to it.
Improve Your Country Property
Build a shed, deck, gazebo, arbor, pergola, greenhouse, small
barn, playhouse or garden bridge with these plans and DIY
building kits.
Homestead Help on the eBackroad Find
home and garden tools, products, furnishings and more. Check out
the free plans for country buildings and woodwork projects.
Country Outbuildings Plans, prefabs and
easy building kits for horse barns, garages, sheds, pole barns,
work shops and country outbuildings.
