In August 2004 we featured the beautiful new 36'x 60' two story Gambrel Barn Home built by Bobby and Ginny Passmore in Barnesville, (really!) GA. Bobby's an Airway Facility Systems Specialist for the government and his wife, Ginny, is a full time mom and self proclaimed "Domestic Goddess." With 8 kids, including Ashley, currently on tour with the Continental Singers ( http://www.continentalsingers.org ) they still found time to build their own dream "Barn Home". We'll let Bobby run you through their project....
For starters, Ginny and I, both 47 years old, will have been married 8 years this December. She has 5 children and I have 3 from previous marriages. We had 5 still at home when we started building late in 2001.
We wanted to get 'out of the city' and started looking for land. We found 13 acres in (appropriately enough) Barnesville, GA that we fell in love with. It's 600' off the road, all wooded and has a creek bottom running 900' deep, through our property.
After looking at modular homes, we decided to build our own. I built a house before and I knew I could get a lot more for the same money....then we came across your plans!! The 'barn' idea just seemed to fit what we wanted in a home.
First shot is the drive entrance up to where the house will be laid out.