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Location: Nebraska | Does anyone live in one? We're thinking about buying some land and building a barn with an apartment then building a house later on. Has anyone done this? How much do they run? |
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Location: Arkansas | Think there was a thread on here a month or so back on this. |
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Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | Chandler's Mom - 2015-04-05 10:58 PM Think there was a thread on here a month or so back on this.
I thought so too, but must have been searching for the wrong thing? |
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Location: Winging It in KY | One of the previous threads:
Horse barns / Apartments
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | Price all depends on how fancy you want it. Check with your insurance because some won't cover them.
I have lived in 2 and I love them. One we built and one we rented. There are things I would change on both and things I would keep the same.
I would make sure you have some kind of mud room or something to seperate the barn and the house to keep down on the dust that comes inside.
The house we built was terrible about dust, the one we rented had a mud room and it helped a ton! |
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 "Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | http://www.twobadgerranch.com/BarnHouse.html |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | I couldn't cope with the flies and manure smell.......
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Expert
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Location: Bandera, TX | I was floored by our county assessmet when done. I recently paid for an appraiser thinking it would help with my Co. taxes. Nope they are not giving any breaks. Ours is masonry, rock and metal. Living is upstairs which I loved until recently after I hurt my knee. The horses are not inside all day long they have runs and the runs lead to a shared trap. mares on one side and geldings on another.
Our thoughts were to build the house later as well. Not going to do that as the taxes are already crazy. 40x72 barn with porches on each end. Around 40-50K for the outside, once we did the inside I have no idea. My husband would buy materials as he needed. I didn't skimp on the bath or kitchen tile & wood floors, granite tops and middle to top of the line appl. The cabints were 12K. The counter tops 7K The bath is my sanctuary. Had to have a whirlpool tub. I wish I could learn to make shower pans because the guys in our area get from 3-5K for doing them! My husband did the living area in Knotty Pine and the bath/bedroom/utility are sheet rock plaster with a monterry texture.
My husband did the building with the exception of laying the block walls and doing the dry stack on the rock. On the inside he had a guy come in to do the shower pan and decided last minute to let him do all the shower tile. We have an outdoor shower which we use a lot in the summer. The bath in the barn (downstairs) is just a half bath (unless you count the outdoor shower head off of it, to make it a whole).
If you think your going to save money think again. You will probably be better off building a house and putting up comfortable loafing sheds for your horses. Mine would rather be under a 50' majestic oak in a storm than in their stalls. Stalls are comfortable for us not for the horse! They would much rather be out. The only time they come in is during biting fly season or when the mesquitos are terrible they hudle under their ceiling fans in the stalls.
We are going to do things differently in the next year or so. Currently we are building a small 70-80 acre trap and putting up partition fences with loafing sheds, the sheds will have large turnout pens about 40x40 on them. So when I want to hold a horse before leaving for a rodeo I can do so. I've looked into pampering them with solar powered ceiling fans and found some neat ideas on the net.
The property is split between our current county and an adjoing, well, the taxes are better in the adjoining so thats where the house will go. Horses and my vineyard in the expensive county-as they are expensive too! The cheap cows, sheep and goats will live with me in the cheap county.
Think it out I thought I did and now wish I would have done the conventional house. I will return to this property possibly when I get frail and need to be close to town. We may build a little house at that time or redo a house we have in town that's just sat forever.
I worry about paying on so many meters and utilities so try to keep them to a minimum. I hope to go mostly solar on the ranch. My husband has played with some solar panels here a the farm and we've been pleased thus far. |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Saw this place in Texas. We were driving so my picture isn't that good. I think it's beautiful.
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
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| uno-dos-tres! - 2015-04-09 2:23 AM
I was floored by our county assessmet when done. I recently paid for an appraiser thinking it would help with my Co. taxes. Nope they are not giving any breaks. Ours is masonry, rock and metal. Living is upstairs which I loved until recently after I hurt my knee. The horses are not inside all day long they have runs and the runs lead to a shared trap. mares on one side and geldings on another.
Our thoughts were to build the house later as well. Not going to do that as the taxes are already crazy. 40x72 barn with porches on each end. Around 40-50K for the outside, once we did the inside I have no idea. My husband would buy materials as he needed. I didn't skimp on the bath or kitchen tile & wood floors, granite tops and middle to top of the line appl. The cabints were 12K. The counter tops 7K The bath is my sanctuary. Had to have a whirlpool tub. I wish I could learn to make shower pans because the guys in our area get from 3-5K for doing them! My husband did the living area in Knotty Pine and the bath/bedroom/utility are sheet rock plaster with a monterry texture.
My husband did the building with the exception of laying the block walls and doing the dry stack on the rock. On the inside he had a guy come in to do the shower pan and decided last minute to let him do all the shower tile. We have an outdoor shower which we use a lot in the summer. The bath in the barn (downstairs) is just a half bath (unless you count the outdoor shower head off of it, to make it a whole).
If you think your going to save money think again. You will probably be better off building a house and putting up comfortable loafing sheds for your horses. Mine would rather be under a 50' majestic oak in a storm than in their stalls. Stalls are comfortable for us not for the horse! They would much rather be out. The only time they come in is during biting fly season or when the mesquitos are terrible they hudle under their ceiling fans in the stalls.
We are going to do things differently in the next year or so. Currently we are building a small 70-80 acre trap and putting up partition fences with loafing sheds, the sheds will have large turnout pens about 40x40 on them. So when I want to hold a horse before leaving for a rodeo I can do so. I've looked into pampering them with solar powered ceiling fans and found some neat ideas on the net.
The property is split between our current county and an adjoing, well, the taxes are better in the adjoining so thats where the house will go. Horses and my vineyard in the expensive county-as they are expensive too! The cheap cows, sheep and goats will live with me in the cheap county.
Think it out I thought I did and now wish I would have done the conventional house. I will return to this property possibly when I get frail and need to be close to town. We may build a little house at that time or redo a house we have in town that's just sat forever.
I worry about paying on so many meters and utilities so try to keep them to a minimum. I hope to go mostly solar on the ranch. My husband has played with some solar panels here a the farm and we've been pleased thus far.
I would LOVE to see pictures!! |
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Location: Winging It in KY | Frodo - 2015-04-08 8:29 PM I couldn't cope with the flies and manure smell.......
If you keep your stalls / barn clean you don't have a problem. Have lived in one for over 20 years now. Never been an issue. |
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| Griz - 2015-04-09 6:25 AM
uno-dos-tres! - 2015-04-09 2:23 AM
I was floored by our county assessmet when done. I recently paid for an appraiser thinking it would help with my Co. taxes. Nope they are not giving any breaks. Ours is masonry, rock and metal. Living is upstairs which I loved until recently after I hurt my knee. The horses are not inside all day long they have runs and the runs lead to a shared trap. mares on one side and geldings on another.
Our thoughts were to build the house later as well. Not going to do that as the taxes are already crazy. 40x72 barn with porches on each end. Around 40-50K for the outside, once we did the inside I have no idea. My husband would buy materials as he needed. I didn't skimp on the bath or kitchen tile & wood floors, granite tops and middle to top of the line appl. The cabints were 12K. The counter tops 7K The bath is my sanctuary. Had to have a whirlpool tub. I wish I could learn to make shower pans because the guys in our area get from 3-5K for doing them! My husband did the living area in Knotty Pine and the bath/bedroom/utility are sheet rock plaster with a monterry texture.
My husband did the building with the exception of laying the block walls and doing the dry stack on the rock. On the inside he had a guy come in to do the shower pan and decided last minute to let him do all the shower tile. We have an outdoor shower which we use a lot in the summer. The bath in the barn (downstairs) is just a half bath (unless you count the outdoor shower head off of it, to make it a whole).
If you think your going to save money think again. You will probably be better off building a house and putting up comfortable loafing sheds for your horses. Mine would rather be under a 50' majestic oak in a storm than in their stalls. Stalls are comfortable for us not for the horse! They would much rather be out. The only time they come in is during biting fly season or when the mesquitos are terrible they hudle under their ceiling fans in the stalls.
We are going to do things differently in the next year or so. Currently we are building a small 70-80 acre trap and putting up partition fences with loafing sheds, the sheds will have large turnout pens about 40x40 on them. So when I want to hold a horse before leaving for a rodeo I can do so. I've looked into pampering them with solar powered ceiling fans and found some neat ideas on the net.
The property is split between our current county and an adjoing, well, the taxes are better in the adjoining so thats where the house will go. Horses and my vineyard in the expensive county-as they are expensive too! The cheap cows, sheep and goats will live with me in the cheap county.
Think it out I thought I did and now wish I would have done the conventional house. I will return to this property possibly when I get frail and need to be close to town. We may build a little house at that time or redo a house we have in town that's just sat forever.
I worry about paying on so many meters and utilities so try to keep them to a minimum. I hope to go mostly solar on the ranch. My husband has played with some solar panels here a the farm and we've been pleased thus far.
I would LOVE to see pictures!!
Me too! I wanna see your out door showers! My neighbor would just love for me to have one of those!  |
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Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | See, I wouldn't want to have a full on barn. I don't stall my horses and they're fine with that. I was thinking of having an overhang off one of the sides that they could stand under if they wanted. That's what I have now and it works well. For the inside, I'd just want 1 or 2 stalls and a tack room, nothing fancy. I'd rather have the space open so hubby could use it as a shop or we could park cars in it if needed. |
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 Ones with the Hotties
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Location: Centerburg, OH | we built a shouse 3 years ago. My husband and his Amish friend and a couple others built it, did the apartment septic well drive and my little barn for less than we could have bout a cheap modular home off the lot we love it all.
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 A very grounded girl
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Location: Moving soon..... | cuckleburr - 2015-04-09 7:48 AM Frodo - 2015-04-08 8:29 PM I couldn't cope with the flies and manure smell.......
If you keep your stalls / barn clean you don't have a problem. Have lived in one for over 20 years now. Never been an issue.
Our apartment was on one side of the barn and the horses were on the other side with 35' runs. We never had a smell issue because where we lived the winds were always blowing 20-30 mph. I miss that place. |
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