Barn Into A Home
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Comments (6)I just discovered a nesting pair on top of the chimney, about 40' off the ground, of the church next to my house the other evening. It is interesting because for many years past the swallows made it their home (by the 100s)for the summer. This year the swallows are around but not spending the night holed up in the chimney. Maybe the owls saw a good opportunity to use a vacant site. the chimney has a great view of our chicken coop and pen. We let the chickens out in the evening and haven't lost one yet. Michael...See MoreBarn style home
Comments (2)I think it's a great idea, and wanted to build one myself, but the missus wasn't crazy about it. Here's a great site for barn house plans, and I bought a set of their plans to build an actual barn. It's a big site with lots of pictures and ideas. I'm not affiliated with them in any way; I just like their plans! Here is a link that might be useful: Barn House Plans...See MoreBarn style carriage house
Comments (1)It's tight but possible to have a separate bedroom. If you can put the stair on the outside wall, you'll be able to create a lot more usable space. I think you would be better off creating on open plan layout myself - but that's just what I would prefer. Rent it as a loft, which has a better sound to it then a studio does....See MoreI'd Kill for the Land and the Barn, but the houses, not so much
Comments (17)It's cheap for the amount of square footage. there are occasionally apartments or houses here in that range that are much smaller. But it's not really the purchase price, as someone else has said, it's the maintenance. At this point in the world there are probably a lot of people who could afford the mortgage, but it's the upkeep that must be astronomical. That's what happened to the large estates here, like Whitemarsh, the Stotesbury Mansion. He could afford to build it. He depleted his assets in the reported $1M a year upkeep (in the 1920s) which is like $13M a year now. I wonder if this is why so many of these ultra expensive properties seem to come onto the market when they are so new. People can afford to build them, they just can't afford to keep them....See MoreUser
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