Custom Barndominiums in Atlanta, GA

Custom barndominiums around Atlanta are homes designed for one piece of land, with the rooms, shop bays, porches and ceiling heights you choose. Nothing is pulled from a catalog unchanged. We start by walking your property and finish with a home permitted and inspected as a Georgia dwelling.

Why the site comes before the drawings

On a Piedmont lot, the red clay subsoil typical of the Cecil series sits 24 to 50 inches thick under a sandy loam surface. It drains well, but it needs to be compacted and graded correctly under a slab, and it erodes fast once it is bare. Where the house sits on the slope decides how much dirt moves, how long the driveway runs and where the septic field can go.

Septic shapes the footprint

If you are not on sewer, the county health department has to approve a septic site after inspecting the soil. Georgia's onsite rules keep absorption fields 100 feet from wells and, where the lot has its own water supply, 50 feet from property lines. Buildings and pavement cannot cover any part of the field except solid pipe. On a two-acre parcel those distances can move the house more than the view does.

Engineering to your county's numbers

Custom spans, lofts and attached shops change the loads. A county that requires sealed drawings for steel buildings, as Fayette does, will not accept generic plans once doors, windows, awnings or dimensions change. We have the frame engineered for your county's wind speed, snow load and frost depth.

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Finishes you pick

Wainscot or full metal, board-and-batten accents, stone skirting, deep porches, vaulted great rooms, mudrooms off the shop, and kitchens as plain or elaborate as you want. The written estimate lists each choice as its own line.