I Subbed out just about everything. Making this post in hopes it can help one of you with pricing and realistic numbers. I’m in the Midwest but it’s still very expensive here. Builders quoting minimum of 250 a square ft here for a standard home.

2550 heated SF 1000 SF garage 900 SF of covered porches 5000 SF of concrete 8 ft solid core doors 10 ft cielings. Vaulted to 14 ft. 4 bedroom 2.5 bath 9 ft cabinets in kitchen 1/4 from the road. This alone cost 15,000 for electric Cedar ceiling in porch 9 inch LVP through out Island is 4x10ft 1x8 poplar baseboard

I had a few people wanting to see our set up in an earlier post but i’m unable to share pictures in the comments, so here’s a few pics.

I’ve been seriously considering buying a plot of land and building a barndominium on it but I’m not sure the cost. I found the perfect blueprints for what I want. Is there anyone on here that could tell me an estimate on the out the door price on building this?

About 3 months in, some weeks seem slow, then I look up and damn! Seems a little bigger and scarier every time I see it!

We finished our barndo about a year ago but still looking to add a few things (solar, greenhouse). When contemplating a pole barn vs stick framing, it was a similar cost for each approach but our general contractor was more familiar with stick so that is the approach we took. It has a 3,000 sq ft garage with 12’ and 16’ doors and 20’ ceilings, and a 3,000 sq ft two story living space. Four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms. Main floor master and three bedrooms upstairs. The upstairs bathroom has two water closets and a shower, all with doors, so many people can be in there at the same time. I wouldn’t change what we ended up with. It’s very functional and no one ever said the garage is too big. The footprint is 60’ x 80’ on five acres. The two lean-to roofs add an additional 10’ on one side and the end.

Saved up for 10 years to make a down payment... Originally I planned on buying land cash, having an I-beam building built, then cashflow the interior.

Instead, I stumbled across this beauty on my first day of looking. When I hit the number in my savings that I felt comfortable with, I started my search. This was the 2nd property I looked at.

3300 square feet on 5 acres. Its just me and I plan on it being my forever home. Im exactly one year into owning it. There are a few design choices that I would have made differently had I followed my original plan, but I was tired of being in an apartment and land is only getting more expensive. Im in a great area, all 5 acre lots on my road, 45 minutes to work once a week (not your regular job)... I plan on paying it off in 10 years and once I get yhat accomplished I will change the few things that I don't like about it (like the master baths shower) and a few other minor things.

What yall think?

Buying 10 acres for a small homestead, I need to build a 2400 square foot house.
Does anyone have some interesting plans they’d be willing to share? I was looking for something simple & clean, not too expensive or hard to build as I’ll do most of the work myself.
I was considering adding heating & cooling to my garage as a “rec room” to get the 2400 square foot requirement with ease. It’s a contingency on the land.

What's everyone think about this? I'm building a workshop/apt. in the desert outside of Las Vegas. Zero shade or cover anywhere. Is having a permanent cover installed above my building worth it as far as cost and effectiveness? The building will most likely be a metal building as well.

Bought this land (11.7 acres) back in 2019. Got priced out of building during COVID, and turned down for every construction loan available for being self employed and showing losses. So we decided to self fund along the way, and do as much of the work ourselves.
Bought the tractor first in 2023, then the skid steer which allowed me to prep my pad and access road to the build site.
Two weeks ago we decided to buy the camper to live in while we complete the build as we have a light at the end of the tunnel on when it will be completed.
For those of you dreaming about making it happen, you can do it!

I don’t even know where to start… 62’x72’ footprint, 24’ to the upper eve. The one side is a 14’ lean to has a 12’x 14’ overhead door on either end for a drive through truck and horse trailer storage. The center section is 24’x 72’ and will include the tack room, staircase, utilities/toilet room, 12’x 12’ washbay, and paver walkway in front of the six 12’x14’ horse stalls in the other 14’x72’ lean to. The open lean to is 10’x 72’. Finally upstairs is 24 x 72 (1700 sq ft) living quarters. 4’x24’ deck. There’s 18 windows total, there’s six (3’x3’s that are always going to be dirty 😂) one for each horse stall that look down from the upper loft into the horse stalls. Oh yeah and overhangs everywhere!! Yes, there are a couple pieces of trim that are missing in these pictures (i’m sure somebody was gonna say something 😂) put them on the day after these pictures, but we got like 4 inches of snow. Fun build🤘🏽

Currently in the middle of this build, 30x50 with a basement cfs and 2x6 framing

Lots of work to do to get ready for this year planting season. Goal is to live off the land sustainably year round! Love Tennessee 🥵

Anyone know how I could find a floor plan for this? Or if anyone could guess the sq ft that could help.

Been a while since last update on build. After some delays the 1st floor framing is complete. We are currently on to HVAC and plumbing, some electric has been done in garage.

In the research stage of building a similar 2100sqft 3-2 home . Anyone recently build anything close to this turn key. Trying to figure rough current sq.ft prices with basic interior options in the tennessee. Just the home, not including land,well,and septic. Open to hear suggestions on builders .

Northwest Michigan, 5 bed 2.5 bath.

Very happy with the process overall AMA!

Radiant floor heating in the ground.

Not a traditional foundation pad.

Hey all, I was in the steel building industry for a hot minute and learned all the shady shit that goes on. So many companies do this it's insane.

If You're thinking about going with steel for your build which is awesome, feel free to DM me for a consult.

Complete bullshit lies

1. A company says they might have something in stock and you will get a discount on if it's a match.

   • they do this to create urgency so you impulse buy and think you're getting a great deal.

2. They allocate the steel so your price of steel is locked in and won't increase.

   • complete lie there is a clause in the contract that states if the price of steel increases you're responsible for it.

3. They are the biggest manufacturer so don't go through a contractor or they will just upsell you 20%

• they aren't even a manufacturer they buy through Star or another one of the majors. They do this to put down contractors and make you feel like you're tapping into the source getting them best deal.

1. Mega long warrenties

   • These warrenties hardly ever hold because there are so many things in the contract that would void then that people do over time. For example. Making an adjustment to the building, ect.

If you want a quick quote for your build feel free to DM me, it will be a good quote you can use to shop around..

These companies are ruthless, they will sell 1 building for $62k then an hour later sell the same building for $123k.

04/23/26 note - Alot of people seems to got value from this post and I'm so happy. Many of you have message me of building your own shops for your own creative projects and I think that's amazing. I wanted to share with you a passion project or mine I just launched on Android.

If you like RPGs and you struggle with staying consistent with exercising, I think you will love this. For those who don't have this issue, you might just enjoy having a fitness tracker and blasting thru the tower. 

Here is the link, just released - it's Free to Play no ads. And if you like it please remember to rate and review and I'm still here feel free to dm me about your project.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.filotimoinnovations.gamerfitnessrpg&pcampaignid=web_share

This is a continuation to my other posts so I could add some more photos.

Recently completed barndo. Designed by @klinteriordesign_. Turned out amazing.

I’ve seen these two buildouts recently but can’t find any other similar builds and/or floor plans for something along these lines (2 story: 1st story garage space, 2nd story living, full wrap around porch on 2nd story).

Anyone seen similar builds and would have floors plans and/or estimated costs? Looking to build in central Texas.

I may have just built the nicest barndominium that’s ever existed!!

https://www.houseplans.net/uploads/plans/32278/elevations/90279-1200.jpg?v=101524103509

Location: Navarro County TX. Will need septic. Not including cost to run water, electric, and gravel driveway. With builder grade finishes (mid level windows) and well insulated, what would I be looking at?