Garage rebuild with man room/apartment on second story

[Deleted member 28227]

Plus it would look like a top heavy, ugly 2 story garage.

 

[BackofBeyond]

That was kinda my assumption, and the “?”.

Still though, what do you think the incremental cost would be on the thread’s project. 10-25% on supplies? Marginal cost on labor.

8ft ceilings suck, only being able to hang elk heads in the gables sucks.

Agreed, 8’ sucks. Our house has 7’8” (really really odd) and I hate it.

Overall material costs for something like this probably get you in that range, but the labor delta is going to be much more than “marginal” just because the lost productivity. Now each stud has to be cut, the drywall finisher will be doing it off a rolling scaffold instead of stilts (much slower), Sheetrock being hung off a scaffold… I’m sure there’s a lot more, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve done any residential work.

Best S.W.A.G. - 30% to be conservative.

 

[BigHornRam]

Did I mention it will look uglier than a mud fence?

 

[TheJason]

Did I mention it will look uglier than a mud fence?

I drive by one quite often that makes me shake my head every time. It has doors tall enough for a big RV, then a full living area on top. Added into a 1960-70 neighborhood. I can’t imagine how much the neighbors must hate that thing.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Did I mention it will look uglier than a mud fence?

Pretty excited to build my own home and piss off all my boomer neighbors.

 

[BackofBeyond]

Pretty excited to build my own home and piss off all my boomer neighbors.

Then don’t build new, remodel and add on - in the most cut-up, make no sense, short term vision possible.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Then don’t build new, remodel and add on - in the most cut-up, make no sense, short term vision possible.

A GIS guy running wild in CAD, going to be years for pent up retribution for engineers not understanding what a projection is and how to use it.

 

[BigHornRam]

Then don’t build new, remodel and add on - in the most cut-up, make no sense, short term vision possible.

Bitterrooters can't hold a candle to the cobbled up craftmanship of North Idahoians.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

@BigHornRam @Backofbeyond could you take the op design and then make the second floor a loft over the bay that’s the “shop”, the on the truck bay there is no second floor, and then a railing down the middle on floor 2.

Hang your elk heads on the now 16ft+ ceiling above the truck bay?

Not quite what I have in mind but kinda….

 

[Hem]

Something to be said for thoughtful design. Latest trend of barndominians annoys the crap out of me.
That said, half of Montana is happy to live in a double wide to afford a UTV, full size tricked out truck, and a new school muscle car.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Something to be said for thoughtful design. Latest trend of barndominians annoys the crap out of me.

Right… god I hate poors so annoying

 

[Hem]

Right… god I hate poors so annoying

Spare me the drama.
Thoughtful design can absolutely be affordable. But you want to live in a box knock yourself silly.

 

[KB_]

Something to be said for thoughtful design. Latest trend of barndominians annoys the crap out of me.
That said, half of Montana is happy to live in a double wide to afford a UTV, full size tricked out truck, and a new school muscle car.

thats because a double wide is going for over 450,000k LOL

 

[elkduds]

Something to be said for thoughtful design. Latest trend of barndominians annoys the crap out of me.
That said, half of Montana is happy to live in a double wide to afford a UTV, full size tricked out truck, and a new school muscle car.

 

[KB_]

I actually like the Barndo places. However my wife hates them. So problem solved, never going to happen.

Really want a steel polebarn tho.

 

[Hem]

Top tier movie on my list. Hilarious.

 

[Scott85]

Do you work on your own vehicles? If so I would also get a lift capable of holding 10-15k and I would make the ceiling high enough to lift a full size truck all the way up. I really like the inside picture in post 29 that @wllm shared.

 

[noharleyyet]

Paris, TX has a legacy of O&G service eff-U money...just NE outside of town on the road to Idabel/Broken Bow, OK, there's a cluster of very nice barndo-maxiums built on rolling manicured acreages commensurate to scale. To me, they're every bit as appealing as the McMansion statements nearer Paris urban.

 

[BackofBeyond]

Bitterrooters can't hold a candle to the cobbled up craftmanship of North Idahoians.

Where do you think I learned it?

 

[BackofBeyond]

Something to be said for thoughtful design. Latest trend of barndominians annoys the crap out of me.
That said, half of Montana is happy to live in a double wide to afford a UTV, full size tricked out truck, and a new school muscle car.

I can see doing a barndo if it’s a “we’ll live in the shop while we build the house” kind of thing, but there’s lots to be said about thoughtful design - as in I wish it happened more, specifically in the commercial side.