/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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To add 'barndominiums' are becoming more common too, I wrote most of this before your second post, but seriously look into barndominium ideas. Which can be as complex and beautiful or simple as you please. Pretty much a building that's mostly the shop/garage with a place to live. Which is what I plan on making at some point when I get back out west. You could have Pic related with a machine shop/garage on the bottom and the 2nd floor is your home.
We built them often as a summer homes, room to put your RV, ATVs and boat, and often the living space was around the size of a trailer or so. I was building in Montana, so it also gets chilly.
With post framing since you have no load bearing walls inside you can really do whatever makes you happy inside for design. Depending on your level of finishing. You could build something then in a year or so trial say no this layout isn't for me and just take it down and reconfigure yourself. Obviously if you sheet rock everything in it won't be convenient but it you just throw together some plywood you can get an idea.
The insulation is better because. Instead of every 16" having a stud to break up the insulation you can span 10' then have a 6-8" wide post that breaks it up. Roof insulation should be fairly heavy stuff tho.

There are post frames that you would never be able to tell. They don't have to be metal or even resemble a barn type building.
I'm personally planning something like a 100x40 maybe wider monitor building. Being a monitor building it makes the trusses smaller and easier to work with. I'm thinking make a 2nd floor, it'd run down the middle roughly the length of the building for ~2000sqft of living space. I've only started planning and thinking but looking like materials to get me a little bit past the shell should be ~50k.