NB-T1-3040-SPN-01
Farmhouse
Weathervane
A 40 foot front porch and an open kitchen on a compact 1,200 square foot footprint.
$1,295
Simple build
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Barndominium plan sets, drawn to be built. Span, pitch, slab, ridge, home and shop square footage on every listing. Buy the plans, build for the way you live your way.
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Other catalogs bury the shop in a note. Here it is filterable, sortable, and printed on the card. Span, door height, and bay count too.
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Dimensioned sheets, a written license scope, and a named designer of record. You hire and contract with your own builder directly.
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Getting Started · 13 min
A 60 foot wall at quarter inch scale is 15 inches of ink. Print it "fit to page" on tabloid and it reads 55 feet, which is wrong by five feet and plausible enough to build. Here is how to read a set so that never happens.

Design and Layout · 12 min
Going from a 10 foot eave to a 14 foot eave on a 40 by 60 costs roughly $4,500 to $7,500. Adding it after the roof is on costs the price of a new building. Here is how to size the three dimensions that behave nothing alike.

Codes and Permits · 12 min
A permit is commonly valid for two years, but it dies if work does not begin within six months or stops for more than six months. Owner builders trip it constantly.

Construction · 11 min
A six month cabinet lead time is an annoyance you schedule around. A six week door lead time on a shell standing open is a building full of weather, and it is the same six weeks.
Plan drops
Spans, shop sizes, and what changed. No drip campaign, no pressure.