<i>At Home in the American Barn</i> examines the&nbsp;fascinating possibilities for living and adaptive&nbsp;reuse provided by the expansive spaces and&nbsp;rough-hewn look of these traditional structures.&nbsp;Nationwide, Americans are turning to structures such&nbsp;as the barn with a mind to renovate them to fit the&nbsp;lifestyles of today, turning these often-wonderful&nbsp;places of the past into residential spaces.<i>At Home in the American Barn </i>embraces the the&nbsp;dream to slow things down and return to basics and&nbsp;shares some success stories, as made plain by<i></i>the&nbsp;buildings themselves.<br><br>This richly illustrated volume focuses on the barn as&nbsp;home. Each of the structures featured has been&nbsp;adapted from its original utilitarian purpose to allow&nbsp;for comfortable, joyous living. Built at first as places&nbsp;for work, barns nevertheless often demonstrate fine&nbsp;craftsmanship and artistry. This volume emphasizes&nbsp;the rare beauty of these structures and shows&nbsp;throughout elegant solutions for living in these beautifully&nbsp;imagined homes.<br><br>Soaring rafters here allow for dramatic chandeliers in&nbsp;one home or a wall of magnificent bookcases in&nbsp;another. Spaces that are unconventional in a traditional&nbsp;domestic sense here serve as springboards for&nbsp;inspiration that allows for, in one home, a spiral staircase&nbsp;of fantasy made from hand-planed wood, and, in&nbsp;another, a wall of glass that lets in the sun.<i>At Home in The American&nbsp;Barn</i> shows the way that this can be done&nbsp;successfully and artfully.