Barndominiums Built for Ridge-and-Valley Land

Barndominium Builders Knoxville designs and builds barndominiums, shop houses and metal building homes on land across East Tennessee: the valleys and ridges of Knox, Blount, Loudon, Anderson, Union, Grainger and Jefferson counties, the foothills toward the Smokies, and the edge of the Cumberland Plateau to the west.

A barndominium project usually starts with a piece of land the owner already has or is about to buy. Before anyone talks about square footage, we look at the ground: how steep it is, where water goes in a hard rain, whether the lot is on public sewer or needs a septic permit, and which office issues the building permit. Knox County alone runs from river bottoms near 800 feet to ridges well over 1,300 feet, and about a third of the county is steeper than a 15 percent slope, so the site often decides the floor plan.

How we work

• A site visit before pricing, with the land walked and photographed.
• Permit research for your exact parcel: city, county or state program, setbacks, and any hillside or floodplain rules.
• Septic and soil steps laid out early, because a soil map and septic permit usually come before a building permit outside the sewer lines.
• A written estimate that separates the building package, foundation, site work, utilities, insulation and finish-out.
• A condensation and insulation plan for the metal roof and walls, sized for a humid climate.
• One schedule from site prep through shell, dry-in and finish-out, updated as the job moves.

Call (865) 273-0759 to set up a visit to your land.