A barndominium at dusk with warm light glowing from every window and exterior lighting along the porch and roofline, a dark windbreak and open farmland behind it.
Illustrative, not a portfolio

Barndominium Gallery

Every image on this page illustrates a construction method, size, or feature, not a photograph of a specific completed address. We would rather show you honestly what each option looks like than pass off a rendering as a finished job. Real job-site photography goes here once we have it.

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The build process

Four stages every project passes through, from a raw parcel to a finished home.

Aerial view of an empty rural lot cut from the corner of a corn field beside a gravel road, with a farmstead, red barn and grain bins in the distance.
Stage one

The parcel

Zoning, setbacks, flood zone and utility access get checked before anything is drawn.

Overhead view of barndominium floor plan and elevation drawings spread on a workbench with a scale ruler and pencil.
Stage two

Design & sealed drawings

Floor plan and elevations, then drawings sealed by an Iowa-licensed professional engineer wherever the office that permits your parcel requires them.

An excavator grading a building pad on a cleared rural lot, with stripped black topsoil stockpiled to one side and survey stakes along the edge.
Stage three

Pad & permit

Clearing, grading and a compacted pad, while any permit the parcel needs works through review.

A finished barndominium at dusk with warm interior lighting glowing through its large windows.
Stage four

Frame to finish

Shell erected and dried in, then systems, insulation and interior finish through to move-in.

Construction methods

Nine ways to build, each with its own real tradeoffs. See the services pages for the full detail on each.

A flatbed truck delivering banded steel frame members and stacked metal roof panels to a building site beside a finished concrete slab.

Barndominium Kits

A steel shell package with sealed drawings for the design loads that apply at your address.

A completed barndominium home viewed from the front corner, with finished landscaping, a covered entry porch and an attached shop bay.

Turnkey Builds

Raw land to move-in under one contract, one schedule, one point of contact.

Barndominium floor plan and elevation drawings laid out on a drafting table with a scale rule.

Custom Plans

Floor plans drawn to your land and your program, not a stock design from another climate.

A post-frame home under construction, showing laminated timber columns on concrete piers and wide-span roof trusses with no interior bearing walls.

Post-Frame Homes

Wide clear spans with no interior bearing walls, framed with the roof open to the sky.

A red oxide primed structural steel frame partly erected on a concrete slab, showing bolted knee joints and anchor bolts.

Steel Construction

Red-iron frame erection, bolted knee joints and anchor bolts set to the tolerances on the sealed drawings.

The interior of a shouse where a finished living area with warm flooring meets a shop bay with polished concrete and a tall roll-up door.

Shouses

A finished living space and a working shop bay under one roof, separated by a rated wall.

A metal-clad home in light winter snow, showing snow on its standing seam roof, vertical wall panels, and a downspout carried away from the wall.

Metal Homes

Standing-seam roofing and vertical wall panels, with concealed fasteners and no exposed penetrations.

A dozer stripping black topsoil into a stockpile beside a compacted crushed-stone building pad, with a culvert pipe waiting at the entrance from a gravel road.

Site Preparation

Clearing, grading and a compacted pad, the stage that most often moves the budget.

A building permit submittal package on a desk with rolled construction drawings, forms on a clipboard, and a hard hat.

Permitting & Approvals

A sealed structural set and the submittal package it depends on.

Seen a method that fits how you want to build? We can draw it for your parcel.

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Sizes & styles

Common footprints and features, each explained in full on the floor plans pages .

A completed 40x60 barndominium showing a residential entry on one end and a wide shop door on the other under one continuous roof.

40x60 Barndominium

A 2,400 sq ft footprint wide enough for two rows of rooms and a real shop bay.

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A compact 30x40 barndominium sized like a starter home or cabin, with a covered entry porch and no large shop bay.

30x40 Barndominium

A 1,200 sq ft footprint built almost entirely as living space, not a shop-first building.

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A barndominium exterior showing a deep wrap-around covered porch with posts and railing along two sides of the building.

Wrap-Around Porch

Its own structure with its own footings, deep enough to actually use.

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A barndominium raised on a stem-wall foundation with steps up to the entry and enclosed storage space beneath the elevated floor.

Elevated Foundation

The realistic alternative where the ground will not give you a basement.

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A vaulted barndominium great room with exposed wood trusses, a wall of glazed sliding doors, and a stone-clad fireplace.

Vaulted Great Room

Exposed trusses and large glazed openings, genuinely cheaper to build in clear-span construction.

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A barndominium great room with an open loft level and railing built over part of the room, reached by an open staircase.

Open Loft

A partial upper level, not a second story, put to work over an open volume.

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A barndominium with a large, high-eaved garage bay attached to a lower single-story living wing.

RV Bay

Sized to the actual coach first, door height and depth follow from there.

A completed single-story barndominium with a long, low snow-covered roofline in a winter yard, with a conifer windbreak behind.

Single Story

The load path clear-span construction is naturally built for.

A completed two-story barndominium with visible second-story windows and a small covered balcony above the entry porch.

Two Story

More living space on a smaller foundation footprint than an equivalent single-story build.

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A barndominium with a smaller attached in-law suite wing that has its own separate covered entry, distinct from the main entry.

In-Law Suite

A separate covered entrance and its own fire-rated wall, distinct from the main home.

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Keep reading

These are illustrations of method and scale. Here is what turns one into a real project.

Turnkey Builds

What it takes to go from the parcel in these pictures to keys, under one contract and one schedule.

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Where We Build

Who issues the permit where your land is, and what the local rules ask of a new home.

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Custom Plans

How a building like one of these gets drawn to your land rather than pulled off a shelf.

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Want something like this drawn for you?

Start your plans and we will draw to your program, then confirm what your parcel will take. That conversation costs nothing.

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