Barndominium Services in Kentucky
Seven ways to get a barndominium out of your head and onto your land. The real choice is not which building type, it is how much of the work you want to carry yourself. Start there and the rest follows.
How much do you want to take on?
Almost every barndominium conversation starts in the wrong place, with square footage. This is the question that actually sorts the options, and it is worth answering honestly before anyone draws anything.
Drawings only
We design and engineer, you take the sealed set to whichever builder you like. You carry the schedule and the risk, and you keep full control.
Kit or shell
Engineered structure delivered, erected by you or by us. Common where an owner has trades in the family, or time and a tractor.
Turnkey
Raw lot to certificate of occupancy under one contract. One schedule, one point of contact, one party answerable when an inspector has a question.
Everything we draw is sealed for the criteria your county is assigned
Kentucky sets one code for the whole Commonwealth, and no locality may go stricter. What Kentucky also sets, unusually, is the numbers. The Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction publishes a filled-in design criteria table covering all 120 counties, with two more for seismic category and frost depth. Ultimate wind speed is 115 mph everywhere in the state, but ground snow load, frost depth and seismic design category are assigned county by county — and in the Jackson Purchase the seismic assignment is high enough that a wide-span building with a big door in one wall stops being something you can build to a prescriptive recipe at all. A set drawn to another county's line of that table is the wrong set for your parcel, whether you are buying a kit or a whole house.
Already know how much of this you want to hand over? Start there and we will scope the rest.
All 7 services
Each page covers what the work involves, the four stages it runs through, and what actually moves the price on that particular job.
Barndominium Kits
We check barndominium kit packages against the wind, snow, frost and seismic criteria the Kentucky Residential Code publishes for your county.
Read morePole Barn Homes
Pole barn homes across Kentucky. KRC §R327 covers accessory barns, not houses — so a pole barn home is engineered by the code's own terms.
Read moreCustom Barndominium Plans
Barndominium plans drawn to Kentucky's published county design criteria — snow, wind, seismic, frost — with engineering where the code calls for it.
Read morePole Barn Kits
What a pole barn kit covers, what it leaves on your ground, and why a kit quoted to a generic spec is quoted to somebody else's county.
Read moreSteel Frame & Metal Building Homes
Metal building and steel-frame homes engineered to the 115 mph wind case and the Seismic Design Category your Kentucky county actually carries.
Read moreShop Houses
Shop and living under one roof: how Kentucky's code, zoning and septic rules actually treat a shouse, and where the farm exemption stops.
Read moreTurnkey Barndominium Builds
One contract for the whole build — site work, shell, finish — and for the separate Kentucky approvals: septic, floodplain, entrance, electrical.
Read moreNot sure which of these fits? Start your plans and we will tell you which route your project actually wants.
Not sure which one you need?
Most people are not, and that is fine. Tell us about the land and roughly what you want on it, and we will tell you which of these actually applies. That conversation costs nothing.