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Hoss

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By two story do you mean taller, or do you mean an interior stick frame structure with stairs?

with 2 floors and stairs and shit. But to be clear, the other half of the building just had that much more ceiling.
 

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with 2 floors and stairs and shit. But to be clear, the other half of the building just had that much more ceiling.
Got it, yeah I'd imagine that would double costs, maybe even more than double as you need framing, drywalling, finishing, etc.
 

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Because our dirt is so bad we wanted to get an engineer to design the foundation. That's about another $1200-$1500. But the engineer also needs a soil survey (about $1200) and an architect's drawing. The architect quotes I'm getting are around 5 grand. This is why people don't do shit the right way.
 

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Alright, I'll put myself out there a little bit. Cribs, rural AR style. This is a 60x40 that the previous owner built. 14' side walls, 18' peak. He ran a business out of it for a decade or more. It's not a perfect setup for how I'll use it, but nothing is ever really perfect. These pictures will hopefully give you all ideas what you can do with your spaces. The next thing I'm doing is getting a batting cage in here. The open area is roughly 42' and change lengthwise, and the "loft area" makes up the rest of the length of the building. Storage underneath, with a handy nook for scrap lumber.

The front office had a large wall mount A/C that was busted. I had a left over window mount A/C, so I pulled it, sheet rocked the opening, and simply covered up the opening on the exterior.

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Nija

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Office space pics.

Downstairs, including the wifecave.
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Upstairs, kids area / eventually art room plus some of my network/server gear in the corner. Will get a full size rack when I find a cheap used one.
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Fucking sweet man. That is exactly what I want.
 
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Fucking sweet man. That is exactly what I want.
Yeah, essentially what I'm struggling for right now is how much it will cost me to find this, on between 5-10 acres of land, where I can also shoot my guns... And somewhere in the northern half of Texas....
 

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Wife and I are looking to do similar. I really like the style of this shape of this barn and the lady really nailed her look on the inside. We have been looking at land in the NE GA mountains at the North Carolina line in the Nantahala River area. The prices to build the shell, insulated, windows, doors, and concrete floor are being quoted around $65k we would have to build out the rest.


 
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Wife and I are looking to do similar. I really like the style of this shape of this barn and the lady really nailed her look on the inside. We have been looking at land in the NE GA mountains at the North Carolina line in the Nantahala River area. The prices to build the shell, insulated, windows, doors, and concrete floor are being quoted around $65k we would have to build out the rest.





whenever i see someone remodel a barn, remember the old house working on one from 1800's. they ended up having to tear it down and norm made doors and some other stuff from the wood.

years ago, the restore was a great place to get stuff, but now they price most stuff to match ebay or 75% of amazon/lowes/etc. did get a pound of cut nails for 75 cents on my last visit, so there are some deals.
 

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Yeah, I doubt the wife will be doing the deals thing the way that lady did, she doesn't have the patience for it. I know I am pretty much going to be paying retail to have it built lol.
 

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Yeah, essentially what I'm struggling for right now is how much it will cost me to find this, on between 5-10 acres of land, where I can also shoot my guns... And somewhere in the northern half of Texas....

West of Ft. Worth, around Mineral Wells/Weatherford/Stephenville and then south all the way to San Antonio is hill country. You can get into some nice looking areas out there and the Brazos has a few lakes on them, if that's your thing.

I know some people who just bought 10 acres somewhere out near Mineral Wells (Jack/Parker/Palo Pinto/Hood county) for ~$200,000, and they said it was a little on the high side, but they wanted the view. Also asked what was the top price they saw and there were a few (outrageous) listings their realtor had sent that were $40-50,000 per acre.

Goatface Goatface A "barndominuim" is a new house using steel pole/Morton/barn building techniques. It is a big square building that you arrange your floor plan into. The only real limit is how wide they want to make it, which looks to be 40 foot, in most plans. So, 40 by 100 is common, but you could make it 40 by 200, if you wanted. It is advertised as being cheaper due to building your shop and house at the same time.

The big square at the top, on the left is the shop, the right side is a zoom in on the "house." The renderings of the house are a mirror of the plans.

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West of Ft. Worth, around Mineral Wells/Weatherford/Stephenville and then south all the way to San Antonio is hill country. You can get into some nice looking areas out there and the Brazos has a few lakes on them, if that's your thing.

I know some people who just bought 10 acres somewhere out near Mineral Wells (Jack/Parker/Palo Pinto/Hood county) for ~$200,000, and they said it was a little on the high side, but they wanted the view. Also asked what was the top price they saw and there were a few (outrageous) listings their realtor had sent that were $40-50,000 per acre.

Goatface Goatface A "barndominuim" is a new house using steel pole/Morton/barn building techniques. It is a big square building that you arrange your floor plan into. The only real limit is how wide they want to make it, which looks to be 40 foot, in most plans. So, 40 by 100 is common, but you could make it 40 by 200, if you wanted. It is advertised as being cheaper due to building your shop and house at the same time.

The big square at the top, on the left is the shop, the right side is a zoom in on the "house." The renderings of the house are a mirror of the plans.

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Wife wants to know if you have a link to the site for the plans on this one. thanks
 

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I will be moving sometime in 2022 and will be building the most amazing study of my dreams. I am pumped about it
 
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I have 2 on my Northern MI property. One is like 20x30 and the other is way larger maybe 30x50 and much taller? But the larger one does not have electrical ran. It has a sunlight at the top. But it would be easy and pretty cheap to power it up though. They are mostly used for storage of our snowmobiles, boat, golf carts 4 wheelers, shit like that plus some tools in both. But tentative plans are to retire there because it such cheap living. Probabaly tear down the cabin there which is small and put a manufactured 1200 sq/ft home over a basement.
When you say North MI do you mean like, the "thumb" or whatever the fuck it is called?
 

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LOL anything north of Detroit is called northern MI around here. But yeah, its more like Mid north around the two lakes there...

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Asshat Foler

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What’s the consensus on buying plans for pole barn structures versus hiring someone to design it? I like the idea of being able to visually shop it but I also need something that is A++ quality and able to withstand Florida hurricanes.

Im looking for something like this except maybe nixing the right covered parking and just making the enclosed parking wider. So enclosed storage to park UTV/other equipment in then covered parking for maybe one or two vehicles.

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