Larry Haun

"From one of Fine Homebuilding's best-loved authors, Larry Haun, comes a unique story that looks at American home building from the perspective of twelve houses he has known intimately. Part memoir, part cultural history, A Carpenter's Life as Told by Houses takes the reader house by house over an arc of 100 years. Along with period photos, the author shows us the sod house in Nebraska where his mother was born, the frame house of his childhood, the...

Larry Haun shows how to build the roof of a basic 1,600 square goot house starting from the of the walls through installing the lookouts and purlins.

Gives step-by-step instructions on the entire process of framing a floor of a basic 1,600 sq. ft. house. Topics include sills, joists, posts and girders, sheathing floors.