Posted 2015-02-05 3:13 PM Subject: Steel Buildings house/ barn
Veteran
Posts: 234 Location: Oklahoma
So my husband and I have been talking about possible housing options we would like I have been looking into the steel buildings and have my barn attached to it.. Plus and minus to this? Who have people used and what size plans? Im wanting something like in the picture.. What are some most knows about doing it this way?
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Posted 2015-02-05 3:21 PM Subject: RE: Steel Buildings house/ barn
Unknown Drip
Posts: 5624 Location: Back in MT BABY!!!
I like that layout....We looked into some of these and what was a draw back to me was the barn either under the house or right next to it. Even though I am used to the smell of my horses I didn't want my house to smell like a barn. This layout atleast has the garage as a buffer for the house from the barn.
Posted 2015-02-05 3:51 PM Subject: RE: Steel Buildings house/ barn
Veteran
Posts: 234 Location: Oklahoma
Karol How big was the apartment did you finish the inside yourself?? IM not to worried about the mice I lived in an indoor some years back and the mice were never terrible, I think I would get lots of barn kitties lol.. No worse then what they r when we were living in a double wide.
Posted 2015-02-05 4:27 PM Subject: RE: Steel Buildings house/ barn
Party Girl
Posts: 12293 Location: Buffalo, Wyoming
This is the house we sold 2 years ago, it is up for sale again. I would love to build another one like it but just a little bigger. My SO did all the outside work, we did the bathroom together and then hired the rest of the inside out to a local contractor. We lived with just plywood inside for sometime. It was a great house for just the 2 of us but we hated the area it was in.
Posted 2015-02-05 4:44 PM Subject: RE: Steel Buildings house/ barn
Expert
Posts: 2457
My SO and I looked into building one of these too!! I lived in one when I first moved to KS and wish to heck the landlord would not have sold the place but ... such is life. I loved feeding my horses in my slippers in the morning!
Check insurance providers ... many will require a type of "fire buffer" between the horse space and the human living space. The OP picture has a garage used in this manner. Just something to think about when planning one out!
Posted 2015-02-05 4:58 PM Subject: RE: Steel Buildings house/ barn
Party Girl
Posts: 12293 Location: Buffalo, Wyoming
lindseylou2290 - 2015-02-05 3:44 PM My SO and I looked into building one of these too!! I lived in one when I first moved to KS and wish to heck the landlord would not have sold the place but ... such is life. I loved feeding my horses in my slippers in the morning!
Check insurance providers ... many will require a type of "fire buffer" between the horse space and the human living space. The OP picture has a garage used in this manner. Just something to think about when planning one out!
We did have to put a "firewall" up before we could put ours on the market. I think all ours was, was more plywood and sheetrock on the barn/garage side.
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