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Location: Oklahoma | We want a small house and have been checking different things and wow. I was thinking maybe a dome house or building that looks like a dome. I have seen pics of inside and looks like tons of room and have heard that heat and cooling would be cheaper. I know that a couple arenas are buildt this way and have heard good things. Does anyone have one house or arena and do you like or what do you all think? thanks
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | You need to proof read your title, lol.. I see you want to build a house not hours, 
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| It may be cool, but your resale value is going to be limited; there is a smaller amount of people that would actually be interested in it vs. a typical home.
You may not be wanting to think about resale now – but you never know what will happen in the next 5-10-15 years. It is probably safer to keep your options open and go with a more typical house plan that would be an easier sell.
As far as the cheapest house to build, your best bet would be to talk to a few contractors and get some ideas on what you can afford.
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Location: North Dakota | Turnburnsis - 2018-01-29 4:16 PM We want a small house and have been checking different things and wow. I was thinking maybe a dome house or building that looks like a dome. I have seen pics of inside and looks like tons of room and have heard that heat and cooling would be cheaper. I know that a couple arenas are buildt this way and have heard good things. Does anyone have one house or arena and do you like or what do you all think? thanks
Maybe I'm reading your post wrong, but if you want to build the house as cheap as possible, but yet have cheap heating/cooling bills ..... well, those two attributes don't exactly go together.
As with anything, you get what you pay for. If you want your heating and cooling to be effecient, then no skimping on insulation, doors, and windows (especially the windows). Quality materials are going to be more expensive when you purchase them, but it's the value and energy savings they give you going forward.
You'll also need to consider the TYPE of cooling/heating unit you want for your area. Powered by electric? Propane? Geo-thermal? Etc. There's a lot of options out there and depending on your area and/or market, what you choose can make a big difference going forward.
For example, we knew when we built our current house that electricity in that area is very expensive. So we opted to do propane for the major items (heating and cooling system). For our next house, since we're also going to have the barn and horses, we are looking at doing everything electrical AND putting up our own wind tower. It will be expensive to put up such a tower, but in the long run, it will save us a lot of money on electricity.
So it's really all about planning.
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | We moved a modular in and it is perfect. Everything is finished all we had to do was paint the inside. |
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| I had student that lied in a geodesic house and they hated it. Said the upper rooms were hot and down stairs was cold. They also said that you could hear every word that anyone said in the house. |
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Location: Idaho | What price range are you wanting to stay in? |
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Location: Oklahoma | we don't have a price range yet. We are just trying to decide which direction to go. thanks everyone |
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| We will be building a stick frame combo residence this spring. We initially were going to build a pole building through a national company, and have a local contractor frame the inside, but it turned out to be less expensive to have the contractor build one big stick frame building and partition it off inside into three sections: woodshop, garage/treatment area, and apartment. The garage/treatment area will be big enough for my husband's vet truck and a couple portable stalls for horses on fluids or in ICU. The apartment will have a completely handicap accessible main floor with one bedroom and full bathroom, and a master suite upstairs. Obviously the woodshop will be just that, a woodshop for Jake to make furniture in the slow months of winter.
We will be heating the apartment with a woodstove and two mini splits (one downstairs and one upstairs), which will be much cheaper than a whole heating/hvac system, plus the apartment itself isn't that large of a space.
Unfortunately, this is a super expensive time to build, as the housing market is going crazy and materials just keep increasing in price. We are trying to get by with doing as much as we can on our own (interior finish work, flooring, painting, etc.), and luckily our contractor went to school with my husband and is very willing to work with us on cost.
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Location: Idaho | We just built a stick built home around 1500sq ft. And and 50x80 pole building for around $265,000. We we middle to upper end on cabinets and appliances. We have a wood fireplace and back up propane heat. Open floor plan so its smaller but feels roomy. |
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Location: In the rockies. | TSlashO - 2018-02-02 6:40 AM We just built a stick built home around 1500sq ft. And and 50x80 pole building for around $265,000. We we middle to upper end on cabinets and appliances. We have a wood fireplace and back up propane heat. Open floor plan so its smaller but feels roomy.
Interesting! Could you post pictures?
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Location: East Texas | What ever you build.....self contract. Saved us about $100K
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Location: Idaho | GOBABYGO - 2018-02-02 3:33 AM
TSlashO - 2018-02-02 6:40 AM We just built a stick built home around 1500sq ft. And and 50x80 pole building for around $265,000. We we middle to upper end on cabinets and appliances. We have a wood fireplace and back up propane heat. Open floor plan so its smaller but feels roomy.
Interesting! Could you post pictures?
Thanks!
We broke ground May 30th and moved in October 21st. The barn is still in the works held up mostly by winter weather.
My pictures are too big to post. I put the building progressoon pictures on FB.
https://m.facebook.com/tobi.richardson.9/albums/1539679092723617/
Hopefully that link works :)
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| It’s been about 10 years now but my husband built our house for about $70k. It is on a slab, 24’x48’ with an attached 2 car garage. It is 1 bedroom 1 bath with in floor heat and we have a window AC. He self contracted it and did a lot of the finish work himself and with the help of family and friends. It is stick built with steel siding and a steel roof.
We plan to add on this spring and hope to do the addition for the same $ or less, again with us doing a lot of the work ourselves. Hoping to put up an indoor arena as well. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | SmokinGirlie - 2018-01-30 9:35 AM
We moved a modular in and it is perfect. Everything is finished all we had to do was paint the inside.
This is what I am looking into. I really don’t want a mortgage any bigger than a truck payment. My dad is very handy and could help us build but we’ll most likely be an hour away and between work and horses I know it would take forever to get done. With a modular a large portion of the work would be done. |
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