SPEAKING OF BARNS....

A good friend of mine (Terri) moved to California several years ago.  She took her horses with her and boarded them at a couple of different places, always wishing that they could eventually buy a property with enough land for her to bring them home.  Unfortunately, she lost one of her horses that had been in training with one of our horses.  Charlie and Target spent some time together doing classical dressage and now they are both gone.  Anyway, Terri picked up another horse...was able to move to her dream property and has put up one of the most interesting little barns I've seen.

Here it is!

A nice overhang .

Two big stalls with plenty of good ventilation...

This is under the overhang....the door is to the storage area.

Simple and very functional.

These doors slide over the back openings of the stalls in case of heavy winds or rain.

If you are in the barn building mode...this seems like one of the better plans to me.  (Even if you are in the East it would be perfect for a couple of lucky ponies).   You did a great job with this Terri!

I just got the following message....

"Mitch and I designed it to suit the climate out here. We even put skylights in the tack/feed room. Even all the lights and outlets are solar powered. We had the metal divider and doors and back panels made to fit by a local welder. It took a while to plan, but it’s worked out beautifully. What I really love is that if they are in their stalls with the back doors open, the stalls dry out very quickly. We also put 8 inches of stone down, then covered that with landscape cloth and then put down 8-10” of sand. It’s soft for them to sleep on but drains well."