Creating floor plans for your pole barn home - Episode 3 of How to Build a Pole Barn Home

hello and welcome today we are going to talk a few minutes about a building plan building your dream home uh what can you do to kind of put something on paper if you have something in your mind you looked at pinterest other sites for ideas uh how you want your dream home to look and also what's reasonable of course and what you can afford uh is one of the biggest factors in that so today i'm going to show you a rough idea of what i did uh to put those ideas on paper and then have those transposed into the blueprint that has been approved and that is going to become our house throughout the build so you want to get an idea of the home you're going to build you have an idea in your head you've seen some beautiful pictures we'll go to places like pinterest and again we'll search for pole barn homes and you can scroll through and get some ideas maybe you definitely want that upstairs loft maybe you want a ranch now a couple things to consider obviously the larger the home the more costly it is and you really have to consider your budget so i'd say getting ideas on what you'd like like this big garage for example or this beautiful patio feature this is nice but don't start with this before you contact a builder what i would do is i would get some ideas in your head of what you would like to do maybe you'd like to incorporate then talk with your builder work with them on a budget get an idea in your head of what you can reasonably afford within your mortgage so at first what i wanted to do i wanted to do one of these big two-story pole barns with the loft in the top i've seen a lot of pictures and i thought this would be an awesome idea or maybe incorporate the garage underneath the house and the first layer of the house if i see a picture like one maybe something like this for example this huge home except the downstairs you drive right into the bottom and then perhaps uh you take an elevator or stairs up and then the living space is upstairs but after talking with the builder we found out that it was going to be far more expensive for us to do that style building for the project in that it would actually be a bit cheaper sorry for the barking there to go ahead and do a ranch style so as much as i liked this idea it wasn't reasonable within my budget to do it and i didn't necessarily want to wait another year to start this project um so i started to rethink what features do i want uh to include so that perhaps i can still have these big high vaulted ceilings in the open floor plan and uh and work with that so what the builder actually helped me do is the builder builder gave me a rough formula to follow for cost per finish square foot now i don't want to give you what my cost was and you rely on that you're going to have to talk to your builder and and figure out that whatever that number is for years but after figuring out you know how big of a footprint we want to be able to include enough bedrooms a large kitchen large living space we ended up going with a footprint that was about 60 feet by 36 feet just for the home and then the garage would be about 40 feet by 24 feet so i'm going to show you what i did to give a rough idea of what i wanted this home in this lookout to lit look like now this isn't a professional way by any means to do this but i actually used a blank powerpoint presentation and i will minimize this here so it fits within the screen for you to see and essentially what i did was i took an insert shape and i started off with a rectangle okay now these dimensions are obviously not perfect so what i want to do is if you know how to use powerpoint you can always watch video you don't need to do some powerpoint but instead of drawing for me this was the easier one to do what you can do is you can actually scale up here the height and the width so for my original drawing what i had done is i had started to play around with this idea figure out what is that scale 36 by 60 do the math create this rough idea and then almost make a miniature floor plan on uh powerpoint all right so continuing on i i realized that i had it saved in my email somewhere i used these rough approximations of my scale on powerpoint essentially to do a layout of how i want these to connect now this isn't final i'll show you what final came out with but to give an idea that i wanted the house to lay one way the garage to form an angle these would naturally form an area for the patio that connects everything back here and then a big driveway up front you can see these lines at the garage doors so what does this look like however so again i had my rectangle here before and this was my first really rough iteration again we're not the architects don't worry you don't need to be there's going to be plans that are made from an architect who you have to pay and engineers that go through this but to give them a really rough starting idea this was my rough sketch i basically stated these are the rooms i wanted these are the rough proportions i want a wide open kitchen slash great room space that's going to be connected here i want four bedrooms three bathrooms now because we are doing this no basement great on slab pole barn ranch style that means we need to house the utilities somewhere in the room somewhere on the first floor so we created an entire utility room now you also want this to be centralized because you have to figure if there's water stemming from here electric in all your utilities it's much easier to bring them out from the center of the house the other rooms as opposed to if you had it on an end and then you had to drag it all the way across here all the way up and across here so we kind of made that centralized and this was my really rough sketch to give and hand over to the architect who would then transform this into the actual uh plans that we're going to show you here in just a moment all right so after taking those rough plans that i showed you and working with the architect and telling them what type of things we did this is what they came back with they came back with an actual blueprint that was based off of my original idea so you can see that over here we still have that uh great open kitchen slash great room space there was a bedroom down here before but we decided that we're gonna sacrifice that area now to have this as one big great room space and then if we need to in the future i can always easily build in and there's enough space to add a bedroom into here but for right now we wanted to keep that as open space as three bedrooms is going to be enough so from my original plan you could see that the master batch was here a master closet with its own master bath suite a couple bedrooms down here that utility storage room and they did everything they need to do to essentially get this to the town and get approved to get our building permits uh this process uh was i wanna say approximately seven or eight hundred dollars there were other fees that goes into this because after it went to this person and had to go um to an engineering place uh again these were requirements of the town your township may not be the same but they're able to bring this to life i also used the door dimensions and the real window dimensions of the windows and doors that we had started acquiring already so they figured those in there and they're able to bring our project and a dream home here to life now it's not the prettiest looking on paper like this is the garage this literally looks like an industrial bar and i promise it won't look like that at the end um but this is what the town wants and this is what the town gets and you're going to be paying for so again follow the steps always check with the building inspector along the way check off the boxes on the list because in the end that is all that they are doing is checking off boxes on their list to see if you meet the requirements and we are on to the next step you

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Length: 9min 32sec (572 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 19 2020