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Bardominiums a growing housing trend
By ANDREW BRANCA
LDaily Light Staff Writer
Looking for that personal touch
in a home or just something out of
the ordinary that stands out? Living
in a bardominium might just be the
perfect choice for you.
This growing housing choice in
the real estate community blends
the spaciousness of a barn and the
custom home into one package.
“Originally people want them to
be able to lower their taxes. The ap-
praisal district has caught onto that.
Now people are making them nicer,”
Broker Associate with Hi View Real
Estate Brett Hess said. “Now the
thing is easy care. You can power
wash your house if you want it clean.
It is less expensive. It is efficient.”
The home is perfect for a per-
son who is into woodworking,
working on cars, a hobbyist or has
recreational vehicle, Brett said.
With the space that a bardomin-
ium provides, homeowners can
have space for these interests built Hess said. “I work with a developer
into the floor plan.
“There is nothing standard
about them. You can build them as
big or as small as you want. Most
guys, they are not looking for a big vision over by the supercollider, on
place when they do these things,”
that has put a little subdivision in building on the outside. The inside
Photos by Scott Dorsett/The Daily Light
west of town and we allowed four
lots for bardominiums. They are
sold. It was just a little 13-lot subdi-
FM 1446.”
Bardominiums use a metal
is then customized to the owners
needs, tastes and likes.
“They put them up and they are
insulated. The metal is insulated.
When they build the 2 by 4 struc-
ture inside them, they are insulated
again. One of the first ones that I saw
was four years ago. When you were
inside of it you could not tell that
you were inside a bardominium,”
Hess said. “They are quick to build
and cheaper per square foot. Now
you can’t build them everywhere;
you have got to find a lot that is not
deed restricted for this type of thing.
In most subdivisions they want 75
percent masonry,” Hess said.
A normal tract home is around
a $100 per square foot whereas a
bardominium is about $50 a square
foot, Hess said.
“You thought that you were in a