And when we say “build,” we mean no general contractor, buy a nail gun at Harbor Freight, acid stain the floors yourself kind of build. Today’s featured owner-builder, Todd Gibson, decided one day to extend his farm shop to include living quarters for “myself and a dozen guests if necessary.” and his number one goal was for it to be “CHEAP.” Here are his best tips.

Are you a member of the various barndominium Facebook groups? Are you a little...."blah" on Facebook these days?We are too. We're working on a new kind of barndominium community that's NOT on the Facebook platform. It'll be heavily moderated to prevent things like spammers, vendors always selling their stuff, and no negativity.If you're interested in becoming an early-access user, please complete this 3 question survey and let us know! We are limiting it to 3-5 people and only taking folks who can post regularly. If this sounds like you, reply to this email.