About The Tinkerer

The Tinkerer flips the usual math: a comfortable two-bedroom home joined to a shop that's nearly as big. Two roll-up doors, room for a lift and a door from the mudroom mean your projects are always a few steps away. Warm industrial finishes and a view of the pond make the house side just as inviting.

Highlights

Shop nearly as big as the home
Two 10 x 10 ft roll-up doors
Door from the mudroom into the shop (your builder confirms the fire separation your code requires)
Hobby room
Pond-view patio

Best for: Car people, woodworkers and builders of things.

This plan is in: 2 bedroom barndominium floor plans · Barndominium plans with a shop · Small barndominium floor plans

In the $149 plan set

Builder-ready drawing set, dimensioned to the inch
Floor plan with every room, door and window located
Four exterior elevations
Building sections and roof plan
Door and window schedules
Electrical, smoke and CO placement diagram
Foundation outline
Editable CAD file (DXF) of the floor plan for your builder or drafter
Every concept rendering of the home, full-size
License to build one home

Completed by your local team

Structural design and member sizing (beams, footings, framing)
Engineering stamps or seals
Site-specific engineering, energy or code review
Permits or permit approval

Your local builder and, where your project needs one, a licensed engineer or architect complete these for your site and local codes.

Living in The Tinkerer

Who it suits

The Tinkerer suits people who work on cars, wood or anything else that needs a bench. The shop is 34 ft wide, nearly as big as the house, with 2 roll-up doors, each 10 x 10 ft, on the front. Bedroom 2 is labeled a hobby room.

Room by room

Front door: on the 46 ft porch, a 3 ft door enters the great room, 18 x 35 ft, which includes the kitchen and dining area.
Primary suite: 13 ft by 19 ft 6 in, with a bath, a walk-in closet and casement windows on 2 walls.
Hobby room: Bedroom 2 is 13 ft by 20 ft 6 in and opens off the great room.
Mudroom: an opening from the great room leads to the mudroom and laundry, which has a door to Bath 2 and a 3 ft door to the shop.
Shop: about 33 x 35 ft inside, with a 3 ft door beside the 2 roll-up doors on the front.

Build notes

One 4:12 roof line covers both house and shop, with a 12 ft eave and an 18 ft ridge, running left to right.
The door from the mudroom into the shop is the place to confirm fire separation with your builder.
The plan puts every window in the house. The shop walls are 12 ft to the eave, so check the clear height with your builder if you plan to add a lift.
The porch runs 46 ft by 8 ft on 6 posts.

The exterior and interior images are concept renderings of this design, not photographs of a built home. Finishes and fixtures are illustrative; the plan governs. The floor plan is drawn from the plan set. Areas are approximate and measured to the outside face of exterior walls; porches, garages and shops are listed separately.

Floor plan and specifications

Every room is dimensioned and every door and window carries its size, straight from the plan set.

The Tinkerer: main floor plan with room dimensions and door and window sizes — Main floor plan. Tap to open full size.

Overall footprint: 80 ft wide by 36 ft deep, the buildings' footprint without porches and decks
Stories: 1 story
Roof (main house): 4:12 pitch, 18 in overhangs
Eave 12'-0", ridge 18'-0"
Ridge runs left-to-right, parallel to the front wall
Masses: House: 46' x 36', living space, eave 12'-0", ridge 18'-0"
Shop: 34' x 36', eave 12'-0", ridge 18'-0"
Porches: Front porch: 46' x 8', 3:12 shed roof attached at 12 ft, beam 10 ft high at the posts, 6 posts
Structure: Drawn for conventional wood (stick) framing; trusses, posts, beams and footings are sized by the builder's engineer. A steel-frame or post-frame version is an adaptation your builder or engineer makes. Member sizes, connections and loads are by your builder's engineer for your site.
Foundation: Typical starting point: monolithic slab-on-grade with a thickened edge (a stem wall where frost depth requires), footings below the local frost line, a footing under every interior bearing line and girder point, and porch-post footings with uplift ties. Slab thickness, footing sizes, reinforcing and anchorage are sized by your engineer for your soil, frost depth and loads; shop and garage slabs are usually heavier than living-area slabs.
Counts: 8 windows, 3 exterior doors, 2 overhead doors, 6 porch posts

Rooms

Room	Size	Area
Shop	33'-0" x 35'-0"	1,155 sq ft
Primary bedroom	13'-0" x 19'-6"	254 sq ft
Primary bath	7'-6" x 15'-0"	112 sq ft
Walk-in closet	5'-0" x 15'-0"	75 sq ft
Great room / kitchen / dining	18'-0" x 35'-0"	630 sq ft
Bedroom 2 / hobby room	13'-0" x 20'-6"	266 sq ft
Mudroom / laundry	13'-0" x 6'-0"	78 sq ft
Bath 2	13'-0" x 7'-6"	98 sq ft

Doors and windows

Swipe the table sideways to see sill, room and wall.

ID	Type	Size	Sill	Room	Wall
W01	Window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W02	Window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
W03	Window	4'-0" x 4'-6"	3'-6"	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
W04	Casement window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Front
W05	Casement window	4'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Primary bedroom	Left side
W06	Casement window	3'-0" x 6'-0"	2'-0"	Bedroom 2 / hobby room	Front
W07	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Primary bath	Rear
W08	Window	2'-0" x 2'-0"	5'-0"	Bath 2	Rear
D01	Entry door	3'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Front
D02	Glass slider or French door	8'-0" x 8'-0"	no sill	Great room / kitchen / dining	Rear
D03	Door	3'-0" x 6'-8"	no sill	Shop	Front
G01	Overhead door	10'-0" x 10'-0"	no sill	Shop	Front
G02	Overhead door	10'-0" x 10'-0"	no sill	Shop	Front

Sizes are clear inside dimensions for rooms and rough openings for doors and windows, from the plan set. Roof heights are above the finished floor. The structure and foundation lines are typical starting points: the drawings are not stamped, and your builder's engineer sizes members, footings and anchorage for your site, soil, snow, wind and frost depth.