I bought 3/4 acre in Cedar Park, TX with city electric and water/sewer. Building restrictions call for a primary residence over 1,100 sq feet and an allowable secondary home that is a smaller structure at a sliding percentage of sq ft of the primary residence that I saw as a potential income producing upside.
Here is the SIP I was originally considering. I'm an empty nester with a son graduating from Tarleton State in May and a daughter who is a sophomore at A&M. I loved this split floor plan with covered patio that gave me options to only live in one side, give privacy to my college aged kids when they came home, and potentially rent out the separate 2 bedrooms and bath on the left via Airbnb.
To get that SIP http://www.greencabinkits.com/prefab-cabin.htm from Kerrville, I was looking at 35k plus shipping via 2 eighteen wheelers. Then I wondered if I wanted more sq footage ultimately then about 1,500 sq feet. Then I started leaning towards the barndo...
My lot is 100 feet wide and 300 feet deep roughly. Since I liked the floor plan, I hired an architect to draw something to that effect that had about 2,000 sq feet. But it doesn't look like a barn, and the garage is a 3 car detached side entry behind the house that is perpendicular to rectangular barndo (steel building).
Is the barndo more cost effective? Or do I go back to a SIP? Or do I just build a good old fashioned house?
Here is the SIP I was originally considering. I'm an empty nester with a son graduating from Tarleton State in May and a daughter who is a sophomore at A&M. I loved this split floor plan with covered patio that gave me options to only live in one side, give privacy to my college aged kids when they came home, and potentially rent out the separate 2 bedrooms and bath on the left via Airbnb.
To get that SIP http://www.greencabinkits.com/prefab-cabin.htm from Kerrville, I was looking at 35k plus shipping via 2 eighteen wheelers. Then I wondered if I wanted more sq footage ultimately then about 1,500 sq feet. Then I started leaning towards the barndo...
My lot is 100 feet wide and 300 feet deep roughly. Since I liked the floor plan, I hired an architect to draw something to that effect that had about 2,000 sq feet. But it doesn't look like a barn, and the garage is a 3 car detached side entry behind the house that is perpendicular to rectangular barndo (steel building).
Is the barndo more cost effective? Or do I go back to a SIP? Or do I just build a good old fashioned house?
