A barndominium at dusk on desert acreage, warm light in every window, with saguaro silhouettes and a mountain range on the horizon.
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 undeveloped desert lot with creosote, palo verde and saguaro, a dirt access road and a dry wash across one corner.
Stage one

The parcel

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

Overhead view of barndominium floor plan and structural 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 Arizona-registered professional engineer wherever the office that permits your parcel requires them.

An excavator working a graded building area cut into desert ground, with white caliche in the cut face and survey stakes in the foreground.
Stage three

Pad & permit

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

A finished barndominium at dusk in saguaro foothills, warm interior light 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 desert 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 in the desert viewed from the front corner, with a deep covered entry porch and an attached shop bay.

Turnkey Builds

Raw land to move-in: we build it from your plans and kit, one contract from pad to keys.

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 pole barn home under construction on open grassland among granite boulders, with heavy timber columns and wide-span roof trusses.

Pole Barn Homes

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

A red-primed steel frame partly erected at one end of a concrete slab in the desert, with anchor bolts standing in the slab.

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 meets a shop bay with polished concrete and a tall roll-up door open to the desert.

Shouses

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

Exterior detail of a metal-clad home showing standing seam roofing, light vertical wall panels, a deep overhang and a downspout onto a rock splash pad.

Metal Homes

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

A dozer clearing desert scrub beside a graded building pad, with white caliche in the cut face, a culvert pipe and survey flagging.

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 on desert acreage with a covered residential entry on one end and a wide shop door on the other under one 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 cabin in a clearing among tall ponderosa pines, with a covered entry porch.

30x40 Barndominium

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

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The corner of a barndominium with a deep covered porch and railing, set among juniper and granite boulders on open grassland.

Wrap-Around Porch

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

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A barndominium raised on a concrete stem-wall foundation with steps up to a screened porch, beside flat irrigated fields and date palms.

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 stone fireplace and a wall of glass doors looking out to saguaro foothills.

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 in open desert with a tall, deep RV garage bay attached to the residence under one continuous roof.

RV Bay

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

A completed single-story barndominium with a long, low roofline among saguaro and palo verde below a rocky mountain range.

Single Story

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

A completed two-story barndominium among ponderosa pines, with second-story windows, a covered balcony and snow-capped peaks beyond.

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 covered entry, on grassland below a mountain range.

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, and what we handle along the way.

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Service Areas

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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