Learn how to build an a frame house (complete with a cozy sleeping loft) in this illustrated, step-by-step guide. One of the sturdiest of all structures is the A-frame, whose skeleton consists simply ...

Between the 1950s and early 1970s, A-frame houses were the vacation homes of the moment. Their cartoonishly oversized roofs became potent status symbols for post-war middle-class families with money ...