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I'm going to put a plug for the Fine Woodworking and Fine Homebuilding magazines and websites here. They both also run excellent podcasts filled with inspiration and advice.

No connection to either, but they're institutions.

Inspired by Fine Homebuilding I'm setting out this summer or autumn to construct this building:

http://www.rodneydiaz.com/garden-shed/

If you've any desire to build your own house, accomplish a DIY or other wood built project - I have an especially good tip here.

Go to Amazon.com and search for "Fine Homebuilding on" or "Fine Woodworking on". These are incredible repositories of hard won knowledge on a specific topic for often literally $0.01 per issue.

The real benefit of all this wood using culture is though - is that you can say to yourself "I think I could do that" and this is invaluable.