Barndominium plans with a shop

Barndominium plans with a shop are also called shouse floor plans, because a shouse is a shop and a house built as one project. These plans show how differently the 2 halves can meet. The Prairie Works puts both under one roof, with a glass-panel door from the mudroom into the shop; our guide to 40x60 barndominium floor plans shows what that layout holds. The Breezeway sets the shop apart and joins it to the house with an open timber breezeway. The Courtyard Works wraps the house and a shop wing around a gravel courtyard. New to the idea? Read what a shouse is.

How the halves meet decides how the place lives. Noise, dust and fumes find their way through a shared wall or door, so decide how far you want the shop from the bedrooms. A door between house and shop is handy, but fire-separation rules can apply to that door and the wall around it. They vary by place, so for any plan here, your builder and local building department decide what that door and wall need. Then think about the big door: the wall it sits on decides how trucks, trailers and weather reach it.

Not every shop is a workshop. The Roadhouse RV is built around a tall RV bay with a 14 x 14 ft door and a second garage door beside it, which suits RV owners, boaters and other toy collectors. Whatever you store or build, compare the door sizes on each home page with your biggest vehicle, then plan the drive and turning space with your builder. A home’s living area leaves the shop out, so the building is larger than the living figure suggests; the footprint on each page shows the whole.

Want parking without a workbench? See plans with a garage. The shop appears in the drawings with the rest of the building, and each plan set also brings a CAD floor plan that your builder can edit; what is included lists the rest.