All About Barndominium, Floor Plans, Benefit, Cost / Price and Design

Barndominium – Long gone are the days when building houses was the norm. Taking a glimpse at mobile homes, they have made it home building easier, less time consuming, cheaper, and efficient.

All that is required is that a home be manufactured and transported to a site where they are permanently set up. In 2016, we predicted that barndominium will be one of the hottest means to owning a new home, and it seems we were right.

By now we’re sure that you have heard the news on this new style of homes and you are curious enough to have a go for them.

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You’ll also find that there are many barndominium floor plans and kits available for use.

Let’s take a look at this type of home, as well as what you can expect in terms of cost.

What is a barndominium?

A barn is often used as a storage room for machinery and other farm equipment. It is also a homestead for livestock. However, in the home building sector, it is totally different from the actual meaning of a barn.

It is an uprising style for building homes which involves erecting a residence through pole building, just like a barn. You can either opt to leave downstairs as a barn, for storage purposes, and build a living apartment upstairs.

On the other hand, some owners will prefer to turn the whole building into a complete residential home with high ceilings, concrete floor and large sliding doors.

Barndominiums can be great weekend and holiday deluxe homes where you can spend time with family cooling off.

In addition to being cost-effective, energy-efficient and low maintenance homes, you will find that barndominiums also feature:

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• 9 feet tall ceilings
• Engineered concrete slabs
• Energy-efficient windows
• Spray foam insulation
• Plumbing
• Tainted concrete floors

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There’s not much difference in the building of a warehouse or a barndominium, as they both apply the same building concept.

The only difference is that barndominiums are cost-effective classy homes with a beautifully decorated with masonry artistry exterior view.

Benefits of Barndominiums

Although they are still infamous, barndominium homes are gradually gaining popularity in Southwest parts of American and in Texas.

So what is appealing about barndominium homes? To most people, it could be the fact that they are affordable.

Unlike the means used to construct traditional homes, barndominiums are cheaper to build and are accompanied by low insurance and tax rates.

They are also faster to build with readily available material kits. This gives you the freedom to build your own home and assemble all the parts in a short span of time.

Alternatively, you could consider calling a professional contractor to install the building on your behalf at a reasonable price.

Barndominiums are spacious, providing home owners with enough space on which you can try out almost anything.

Whether you want to add walls, leave the space empty or add decorations, the decision is up to you. The best thing with barndominiums is that there are no limitations to the range of you can do with the free space.

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What can you do with a barndominium?

You can absolutely do anything you please with a barndominium. Whether you are comfortable with adding more rooms or just living the entire building free, then you got to go for it and you can furnish it as much as you’d love to.

There are no restrictions to what you can do with your barndominium and you can turn it into anything you like. You can use a barndominium as:

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• A shop
• An entertainment area
• A garage
• A conference for holding meetings
• A Church

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If you feel that your home needs a lavish look, then you can change it to adapt to your lifestyle.

An advantage with owning your own barndominium home is that you can transform it from just an empty free space and customize it with basically:

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• Hardwoods floors
• Granite kitchen counter tops
• Air conditioning units
• Hot tubs and showers
• Ceiling fans
• A picture frame wall

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Anything you can visualizing having in a traditional home, you can bring it to a barndominium and it will be like owning a customized traditional home.

Alternatively, you can contract a builder to help with customizing your home to your heart desires.

You should provide detailed information on what you’d like to be added, what you would prefer to have in your home and what you don’t want included.

The only difference arising from this is that you will incur costs to have your condominium remodeled to a deluxe looking home.

This will depend on the complexity of the job and the materials likely to be used with some costing more than others.

Should you live in a barndominium?

Most definitely, yes. We have seen that one of the benefits of a condominium is the space they offer. This means they would be a great family home and everyone can fit in comfortably.

In addition to that, you are not limited to how you’d like your home to look.

You can have as many add-ins as possible ranging from a hot tub, to air conditioning, and you can have as many rooms as there can be in the available space.

If you are not looking to make a home out of a barndominium, then you the freedom of making it your storage unit, a retail shop, or an entertainment area for family or business purpose.

Where should I build?

You can build a barndominium anywhere you’d like on your land property or estate.

However, at the moment, they are currently booming in business in Texas, Brazos Valley near College Station, Mineral wells, Horseshoe Bay and Marble Falls, west of Austin and in Weatherford, near Fort Worth.

If you are living near this are, you can comfortably build your own barndominium home.

For anyone looking to build or convert an already existing home structure, Garland Insulating will be at your service to ensure that your home is properly insulated.

Average barndominium cost / price?

It is difficult assigning a specific price to a barndominium since different places will charge differently.

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This will only cater for installing the entire building materials and any other additions such as walls and kitchen counter tables would incur more charges.

On the other hand, if you were looking for a basic shell, you can find places charging as low as $20 per square foot.

A basic shell basically includes setting up; the slab, plumbing, metal or wood, building electrical stub outs, showers, washrooms, vents and sinks.

However, it is an incomplete build and you are left out with framing work to do on your own.

There are also available shells that are completely built and ready to finish that go for around $26 per square foot.

This means no extensive frame work to do and only a bit of finishing touches are needed for the complete look. All you have to do is put up the walls and painting them as well as installing the doors.

Are there barn home kits?

There are several barn home kits that are available for sale in the market. A kit is an already planned home built that are available at a cheaper price and for a quick build.

There are a variety of floor and square foot plans which you can purchase for your perfect home build. The plans are offered by a number of building companies which you can find near you, depending on your location.

They typically offer their services to clients within a 100-mile range to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in transportation and building.

Barndominiums are available at low costs and there has been major changes in how homebuyers are trying to save money.

As much as the housing business is thriving, one thing remains that most first homebuyers cannot the homes sold in the market.

However, with this great barndominiums, you can now afford a home of your own with 50% of what you’d spend on a traditional home.

Barndominiums are durable as most of the housing material is made up of metal thus lesser issues with the foundation, roofing material as you would expect in a traditionally built home.

If you are on the hunt for a new kind of home, then you should consider barndominiums. Hopefully 2016 will be the year of barndominiums especially in areas with overpriced homes.

Small barndominium floor plans

336 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 1 bed, 1 bath – 14’x24′

525 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 1 bed, 1 bath – 25’x21′

30′ barndominium floor plans

600 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 1 bed, 1 bath – 30’x20′

900 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 1 bath – 30’x30′

1200 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 2 bath – 30’x40′

1200 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 1 bath – 30’x40′

1500 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 2 bath – 30’x50′

1800 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 2 bath – 30’x60′

35′ barndominium floor plans

700 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 1 bed, 1 bath – 35’x20′

1050 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 1 bath – 35’x30′

1400 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 2 bath – 35’x40′

1400 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 1 bath – 35’x40′

1750 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 2 bath – 35’x50′

2100 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 2 bath – 35’x60′

40′ Barndominium floor plans

800 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 1 bath – 40’x20′

1200 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 2 bath – 40’x30′

1600 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 2 bath – 40’x40′

2000 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 4 bed, 2 bath – 40’x50′

2400 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 5 bed, 2 bath – 40’x60′

50′ Barndominium floor plans

900 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 2 bed, 1 bath – 50’x20′

1500 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 3 bed, 2 bath – 50’x30′

2000 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 4 bed, 2 bath – 50’x40′

2500 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 4 bed, 2 bath – 50’x50′

3000 sq. ft. barndominium floor plans; 5 bed, 3 bath – 50’x60′

Barndominium designs Ideas

Many barndominiums include workshops and storage places which aren’t a necessity. Anyone planning on having a barndominium will tend to lean to a traditionally built home design.

Since the cost is low, most homeowners will invest their saving on luxurious home products such as granite counter tables or a swimming pool which will give their home a classic look.

When it comes to decorating a barndominium, you can implement as many design ideas you can find.

Pole building may have a simple look but homeowners can customize their homes to have a more rural appearance with antique decorations, faux brick walls and wood beams.

It’s just another step to giving your home a modern look with large sliding doors, open and airy spaces and full-length windows.

A misjudgment with barndominiums is that they need to have metal siding or a metal roof. This is nothing short of misguided beliefs since a pole building can be built and designed using any roofing and siding materials.

As much as barndominiums home kits are gaining fame, we can clearly tell why homeowners are shifting from the traditionally built homes.

If they feel like the perfect fit for you and your household, contact Hansen Buildings for a quote on a custom pole barndominium kit.

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