How to design dream house?

Are barndominiums just houses? Well, they can be called your safe place. The choice of the designer (and then, as we will see, of the general contractor) is fundamental and must be made very carefully because he will be your main interlocutor for the house to be built all the time. The skill of a designer lies in knowing how to translate your wishes and ideas into reality, even those just sketched, transforming them into something feasible that meets your needs, within the budget you have allocated builders.

The professional’s remuneration varies according to the project you will carry out and the tasks you will entrust him, which can range from design to construction management. Once you have identified the right designer for you, the next step will be to entrust him with the task that will begin with the design of the house. The starting point is the feasibility study / preliminary design, or a first hypothesis, perhaps accompanied by photorealistic rendering, which usually culminates with the drafting of a rough metric calculation that is used to estimate the costs of the works to be carried out.

Don’t think it’s a very fast phase. You will soon realize that the preliminary design for barndominiums will undergo several changes for various reasons, such as the need to reduce costs. Furthermore, only with time and with the support of a good professional will you be able to understand exactly how your needs can be combined with the best architectural, building and technological solutions. Once we have reached a satisfactory and economically sustainable solution, we move on to the drafting of the final project.

At this point all the technical documentation must be produced, in order to receive all the approvals to proceed with the execution of the works. The bureaucratic procedure must necessarily be followed by a qualified technician, who will be responsible for it. In the meantime, work begins on the executive project, with which the materials, systems and various finishing works are also defined in detail, always with a careful assessment of the construction cost relating to each alternative. At this stage it would be important to have already identified a possible executor of the work, perhaps an experienced general contractor who can offer his point of view to the executive and construction design in order to produce a very detailed specification with an extremely reliable amount of the work.