Anyone here built or bought a barndominium?

Be sure you can build one with the local zoning codes the property is subject to.

I was looking at barndominium packages this weekend. 
500K 

After I factored in land and, bringing in utilities, I went back to the drawing board. I haven’t seen any already built and, on land for sale here in Washington. If it was a viable option, I definitely would do it.  They’re pretty bad ass in my opinion. Especially the ones with shop space as big, if not bigger than the house/living area. 

Simpson was a good company however many years ago. If you need financing, that could end up being annoying. Many lenders still aren't well setup for it.

Yeah my issue is that as these have become popular, the price of building one has become as expensive as building a comparable home in the last 4 years. You use to be able to build a really nice barndo for 150k finished thay would rival a 250-300k stick built home. Area dependent obviously as some home for 300k are just small boxes lookin at you California and Chicago.

Even woth me and my subs doing 90% of the work for a nice barndo I could build a house and drop a small 25x40 shop for not much more.

I think in the next 2 years the price will come back down a bit due to them not being the newest trend anymore.

That's good just have an understanding of county and township laws.

One of the barn kit manufacturers had a well run Supercross team for a few years.

I've been wanting to build a barndominium for a while. Way cheaper and designed how I want.

Why not an HOA? I mean, it's not like they are going to wait until you are done building it, and then say that you violated their bylaws because it's the wrong shape, then decide to fine you $1,000 and put a lien on your property, force you to sell it, and then keep all the proceeds for themselves or anything. Oh, wait.... yes they would. 

There are getting to be more and more of them in Eastern Washington on the outskirts of towns. The coolest ones have a large second story balcony which is the overhang for a car port.

We looked at building one a few years ago but ended up building a shouse by the time we compared numbers. 

50’x80’ concrete slab with floor heat throughout. 40’x50 living area 40’x50’ garage area.

 17’ walls so living area has upstairs on each side with center open. Garage has mechanical room, and hunting room under a mezzanine leading up to one side of the upstairs. Stairs in living quarters to get to the upstairs on other side. 

Spray foam insulation all exterior walls and sound deadening R13 between living/garage wall. 

Floor heat and spray foam worth every penny. 

I like to call them a simple house with a large attached garage because that is what most of them are. You rarely save any money per sq ft like people think you do. The biggest con when we were thinking of one is that it is hard and expensive to keep the shop area issues separated from your living area like chemical smells, dust and fire hazard. If you are just using your garage area for storage and light work it is great, Start painting, welding, sanding and all that other fun stuff that most do in a shop and you will wish it was separated from your home. Most people will end up spending more on this style home per sq ft, especially if you are in an area that requires frost walls.

Almost done with our off grid Hybrid Barndo style home.  Finishing up shop trim this week and then will be building safety rails for the upstairs deck after that.  Almost there!  We can then chill and get moved in and finish inside trim as we feel like it.  

We built it ourselves while living in a camper on site for the last year.  My wife is a general builder and I’m an Electrician so that helped a ton with cost. 
The steel building is from Central states.  Very pleased with it.  Our original plan was full barndo but our AHJ would not allow it as it didn’t match the surrounding ascetic.  Cost to build for us including 5 acres of land the Well and Off-Grid Solar is roughly $130-140 per house foot.   

 

Building your own house isn’t for everybody.  Lots of early mornings and late nights..  You won’t know what you don’t know till you know and sometimes you pay good money to go to school.  
 

I say build it.  And build it off grid.  

I would spray foam the shop if I were to do it again.  I will have to fix a few insulation mistakes here and there but I’m pleased with the building overall. It went together super smooth.   But our anchors and foundation were spot on so that helps.  Layout is critical. 
I had a 3 man crew and sheeting with insulation was tough!  If you go with rolls have 4 or 5 guys to help keep things straight and tight. 

 Do it!!

One of our guys wanted to do that. Could not find a lot, even in the unincorporated area that would allow it. And if it did, was so expensive it didn't make sense.

We built a pole barn with a kit from Menards two years ago.  There is a decent(idiot consumer grade) design tool on their website that lets you design size, shape, height, color, etc and gives you a ballpark price on the pole barn aspect.  They don't do steel frame, only wood.  Obviously you have to figure out everything to finish the inside but it was an easy company to work with for just the pole barn.  We designed it then it went to an in-house engineering firm through Menards.  They changed the built spec to match local requirements for wind, snow load, etc.  They also provided stamped engineered plans for the county permits.  There was a decent cost involved but very easy, plus they sent the new plans to Menards to have the build kit updated with everything we needed. 

Scaffolding and a telehandler were expensive and necessary tools needed to build.  We rented the telehandler for a month and used it to unload trucks, set posts, trusses and purlins and a little bit of material movement to the roof for roofing.  I might have been able to do the telehandler rental for 1-2 weeks but I'm not a builder and none of my help were either so it didn't go quick.  We are all pretty handy and mechanically inclined but definitely not professional builders.  The month rental was a couple hundred more than a 2 week rental so I just did the full month.  Large scale, wide scaffolding with casters and leveling jacks is recommended.  It allows you to move around a little free-er at height, more comfortable on the bottom of your feet than ladder rungs, more room for tools and material storage.  Buy the scaffolding, you can always chose to keep it or sell it after your project is complete.

There is a small complex of them on the edge of town .

I would prefer to have a private set up with some land ..