Barndominium Services in Oregon
Nine 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 draw the plans and set out the approvals your land needs, and you take the set to whichever builder you like. You carry the schedule and the risk, and you keep full control.
Kit or shell
The manufacturer's structural shell delivered with its drawings, erected by you or by a crew you hire. Common where an owner has trades in the family, or time and a tractor.
Turnkey
Raw land to move-in under one agreement. One schedule, one point of contact, one party answerable when the planning office, the septic agency or the building department has a question.
Every job starts with what your land is zoned for
Oregon applies one residential code, the 2023 Oregon Residential Specialty Code, uniformly across the state, and the state's Design Criteria Hub gives the snow, wind and seismic values for each address. The land is what varies. Outside a city's urban growth boundary the county decides whether a house can go on a parcel, and on land zoned for exclusive farm use a dwelling has to qualify under state law. Off sewer, the septic system needs a site evaluation and permit from the Department of Environmental Quality or its county agent. Whether you are buying a kit or a whole house, those answers come first.
Already know how much of this you want to hand over? Start there and we will scope the rest.
All 9 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
Barndominium kits and shell kits for Oregon land, sized to the snow, wind and seismic values the state's design hub gives for your exact site.
Read moreCustom Plans
Custom barndominium plans drawn for Oregon's residential code, your site's snow and seismic values, and the energy chapter a steel shell must meet.
Read morePole Barn Homes
Pole barn homes and pole barn home kits for Oregon land, built as dwellings under the state residential code, not as farm buildings.
Read moreShouses
Shop houses in Oregon: a working shop and a home under one roof, planned around your zoning, septic and the residential code from the first sketch.
Read moreMetal Homes
Metal building homes in Oregon, finished as real houses: insulated to the state energy chapter, detailed for wet winters, and hardened for wildfire.
Read moreSteel Construction
Red-iron steel frames and metal building shells erected across Oregon, sized to your site's snow, wind and seismic values and built to live in.
Read moreTurnkey Builds
Turnkey barndominiums in Oregon, from the land-use question on raw land to the final inspection, and the order every approval has to come in.
Read moreSite Preparation
Barndominium site preparation in Oregon: the land-use check, septic site evaluation and well location first, then clearing, drive, pad and drainage.
Read morePermitting & Approvals
Barndominium permits in Oregon, in the right order: county land-use approval, the DEQ septic evaluation, then the building permit under the state code.
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.