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<title>my barn conversion forum &#187; Forum: Design &#38; Architecture - Recent Topics</title>
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<title>iancauston on "good basic design website"</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>iancauston</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;If anyone is looking for an 'easy to use' design website try sweet home: &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.sweethome3d.com&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&#62;http://www.sweethome3d.com&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I am currently converting a barn to live in and found this free website very useful to plan and picture my design. I had tried using some CAD sites but found them very complicated and only for a trial period.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Hopes this helps someone
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<title>zb12xy on "How to Amass Massive Wealth With a wow pitted gold band"</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<title>peter_912 on "Respect for the building you are converting"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>peter_912</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;William Morris would turn in his grave if he saw the example of a barn conversion you show on your website cover page. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;When converting a barn to habitable use there are some subtle things you can do to respect the barn you are converting, which I'm afraid the example shown does not get anywhere near. &#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Haywain entrances: The haywain entrance should always retain its doors for starters, and the glazing to the haywain entrance should really be minimal or recessed - not expressed as a vast window. Haywain entrances were either shut or they were open spaces, and the new architecture needs to be sensitive to this.&#60;br /&#62;
Roof Structure: The roof structure of the example barn is stiff and formal looking - as though it has been 'straightened out'. The roof structures should be retained in-sutu and not rebuilt with straight lines. Barn roofs often display subtle fluid-like flow patterns on their roofs as the result of gentle settlement of walls or structural members. Only an insensitive designer could fail to notice and value these signs of age and grace.&#60;br /&#62;
Meters: Abominations like the electricity meter cabinet in the foreground of the picture should never be allowed to be seen.&#60;br /&#62;
Solar panels and rooflights cluttering the roof: The proliferation of solar panels and rooflights on the roof of the example barn is most insensitive, along with the inappropriate and not even technically needed roof vents (use vapour permiable roofing felt instead). The roof should be kept as clear as possible and the only rooflighting should be one or two small assymetrically-placed modern cast-iron like rooflights of the type that farmers might have put in at some point in the past. The rooflights used are patently modern and inappropriate. Solar PV or thermal should not be allowed to mar the beauty of any barn roof  - they can instead be sited in a fixed or tracking array off to the side where it may be visually disengaged from the barn itself.&#60;br /&#62;
Windows: Windows need to be carefully considered and not proliferate like those in the example building. Animals were not deemed to need much light and barns did not generally have windows as such, or if they did they were usually quite small. They did frequently have open 'wind-eyes' which were arrowslit-like portals to allow air in to dry grain. New windows need to be confined to small dimensions and the casements pulled right back so that the frames dont show.&#60;br /&#62;
Dressed stone: One of my pet hates is seeing dressed stone quoins added to barn corners and openings. Luckily the example barn does not have these! Barns were build by local men for local men and they never contained architectural vanities like dressed stone quoins, which are mostly installed by people who do not understand or have any sympathy for the essential informality of barns.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I want to challenge the owners of this website to show a better example of barn conversion (literally), and to promote a more enlightened approach to those who would live in barns. They can do this by providing an online guide to website visitors that will describe a more sensitive and appreciative approach to their conversion than is evidenced by the appalling example illustrated on the website entry page. Barns are in my view the most beautiful and functionally honest buildings this country has ever produced. We need to spend more time promoting practical ways that we can preserve their special character.
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<title>farmer lydia on "help with arrow slits"</title>
<link>http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/topic/help-with-arrow-slits#post-47</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;Hi there, me and my partner are working on a barn conversion on our farm. We are doing as much of the work as possible ourselves. We have to build an internal block wall to create a cavity and can't leave any of the barn walls exposed. We have now built up as far as the arrow slits and are not sure what to do about them. My partner thought the windows would go on the inside, with a wooden frame to match the rest of the windows but I like the idea of glazing them on the outside and having a deep window ledge.&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;I've seen the picture on the website and the arrow slit looks great but I can't see how the glass is held in place and if it is double glazed. Also, did you use plasterboard and if so did you put damp proof behind it?&#60;/p&#62;
&#60;p&#62;Any advice would be welcome. Cheers, Lydia
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<title>earthsoul on "Female needing advice!!"</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;Hi,&#60;br /&#62;
I live in Llandysul, in Wales and I am intending on converting my mothers barn to live in. It is shown on planning laws as the original house.&#60;br /&#62;
The barn was rebuilt as a barn in 2000, so it has a damp course, a new roof, a second floor (stairs of which are outside), and is sound structurally.&#60;br /&#62;
So where do I start?&#60;br /&#62;
I want to do the conversion as ecologically friendly as possible, but I am a nurse by profession, I am also a single parent, so I do not have unlimited funds to make it happen.
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<title>elwood123 on "Site office/Steel lock up/Toilet block for sale"</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;Ideal for a barn conversion or renovation .Secure site office 24x8 foot, socket, heaters and lights, clean and good condition.&#60;br /&#62;
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<title>mchidgey on "Barn conversion in progress in Somerset."</title>
<link>http://forum.mybarnconversion.com/topic/barn-conversion-in-progress-in-somerset#post-9</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mchidgey</dc:creator>
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<description>&#60;p&#62;I have recently purchased a stone barn barn in Somerset. The barn is to be converted into a four bedroom dwelling. The progress of this project can be followed at &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.barnbuild.blogspot.com&#34; rel=&#34;nofollow&#34;&#62;http://www.barnbuild.blogspot.com&#60;/a&#62;
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