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| If you have one, or have pics of one please post :) If you have experience with any of the above share pros /cons/ advice. My husband I are tossing around the idea of building one some day and love to see what others have done. We really like the metal homes but they are not as common in our area as they are in our neighboring state of Texas. My husband really also likes the idea of building a barn/ house combo.
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Location: Texas | Here is the outside of our house. It is two stories, has an outside storage room and covered porches front and back. The floor is stained concrete, with carpet on the stairs and upstairs.
After living in it, I highly recommend a metal house.
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Location: N Texas | aggiejudger - 2014-10-28 8:50 AM
Here is the outside of our house. It is two stories, has an outside storage room and covered porches front and back. The floor is stained concrete, with carpet on the stairs and upstairs.
After living in it, I highly recommend a metal house.
My husband and I have been seriously considering going this route. What company did you use? I'm also curious about price. You don't have to divulge that info if you don't want, or you can pm me :) |
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| aggiejudger - 2014-10-28 8:50 AM Here is the outside of our house. It is two stories, has an outside storage room and covered porches front and back. The floor is stained concrete, with carpet on the stairs and upstairs.
After living in it, I highly recommend a metal house.
I really like that! I love the brick you added also. I want to do that but with adobe stone. I believe we would go with stained concrete as well. Are you happy with the stained concrete? I hear it can scratch easily, but I think that would be true with any hard surface flooring. Im also told with a metal home you normally see a decrease in your energy bills. |
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Location: Illinois | Here is the front of our house. It has the metal siding and a metal roof. It is basically built like a pole barn. I love it, so easy to maintain and clean in the spring. No shoveling snow off the roof, it is nice. We have a huge attached garage too.
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Location: N Texas | scwebster - 2014-10-28 9:21 AM
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Oh wow, that second one is gorgeous! |
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| My husband and I built a metal home about 4 years ago. Our building is 60 X 90 and includes our garage and shop. We too have stained concrete. I LOVE it. I will never go back to carpet, ever! We love our metal home. I will try to post pictures as soon as i figure out how. I have lurked on here for years (like I remember the pineapple thread and grandma under the tree thread) but I don't post much : )
I can't figure out how to post pictures. I do have the pictures in my album.
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Location: Texas | I wish I could take credit for our house. It was built in 2009, but we bought it in 2011. I know that metal homes do not cost as much as traditional ones. I love the metal and brick for ease of care. We power wash it in the winter to get the spiderwebs off, but no painting, etc. is required.
I do notice some wear on the concrete, but it gives it character and is not that noticeable. I do know that it is awesome for dogs and kids. Easy to clean up. If we ever build a home, I will do the stained concrete again. |
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| I like the stained concrete floors, but how is if you have bad knees or back? |
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Location: Illinois | We have stamped concrete in our kitchen and I have to say I love the look of it but it is hell on my feet if I am standing there cooking or something. I need to get some of those gel mats for in front of the sink and stove. We have hardwood over a concrete slab in the rest of the house and I love it. |
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Location: Displaced Iowegian | TryingToStayOn - 2014-10-28 9:34 AM My husband and I built a metal home about 4 years ago. Our building is 60 X 90 and includes our garage and shop. We too have stained concrete. I LOVE it. I will never go back to carpet, ever! We love our metal home. I will try to post pictures as soon as i figure out how. I have lurked on here for years (like I remember the pineapple thread and grandma under the tree thread) but I don't post much : )
I can't figure out how to post pictures. I do have the pictures in my album.
If you have pictures on FaceBook, you can right click to copy, then "paste" here........ |
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| I found this on the web of a cute barn/house combo.
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Location: My happy place | NJJ - 2014-10-28 11:16 AM TryingToStayOn - 2014-10-28 9:34 AM My husband and I built a metal home about 4 years ago. Our building is 60 X 90 and includes our garage and shop. We too have stained concrete. I LOVE it. I will never go back to carpet, ever! We love our metal home. I will try to post pictures as soon as i figure out how. I have lurked on here for years (like I remember the pineapple thread and grandma under the tree thread) but I don't post much : )
I can't figure out how to post pictures. I do have the pictures in my album. If you have pictures on FaceBook, you can right click to copy, then "paste" here........
I tried it and it looked like it worked but made the picture so big I deleted it. Looked like it screwed up the thread making people have to scroll to see. Also you could even see how messy my porch was. |
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| NJJ - 2014-10-28 10:16 AM TryingToStayOn - 2014-10-28 9:34 AM My husband and I built a metal home about 4 years ago. Our building is 60 X 90 and includes our garage and shop. We too have stained concrete. I LOVE it. I will never go back to carpet, ever! We love our metal home. I will try to post pictures as soon as i figure out how. I have lurked on here for years (like I remember the pineapple thread and grandma under the tree thread) but I don't post much : )
I can't figure out how to post pictures. I do have the pictures in my album. If you have pictures on FaceBook, you can right click to copy, then "paste" here........
I would but I don't Facebook. Thanks for the advice though. |
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| After this thread came up I found this one I really like...
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Location: on my horse | someone on here had an absolutely AMAZING old barn they had converted into a house with the concrete floors, etc. It was a super super old barn too and I think they did it all themselves. It was a thread within the last year. If anybody remembers who had it that would be great! I'll go looking for it and see if I can't bump it up  |
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Location: on my horse | found it and bumped it up. Roanrider's home is gorgeous! I'm not sure if it's what you were meaning but it's still super cool (= |
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| Roan riders house is defiantly cool!! I love seeing what others have done! |
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Location: Kansas | Check you local tax codes. Some places will tax you on all space as living area with house/barn combos. |
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