50x70 Garage House - FULL TOUR and COST Breakdown

What's happening guys today? I'm giving you a complete

tour

and

cost

breakdown

of my barn and

garage

style home. Hey guys, before I start the detailed video, I just wanted to tell you that I bought this land when I was 22 and I designed and built the

house

at 24, so I was by no means an expert in designing or building a

house

. This was my first house after moving out from my parents, so I had never bought a house before and I set out to design and get one. built from scratch. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone if you don't have a lot of patience and are willing to learn a lot.

It was definitely stressful, but it was worth it in the end and I've already had a lot of questions about the house building video explains why I didn't do certain things a certain way and the answer is that it almost always

cost

at 23 and 24 years old. Obviously I didn't have a big budget for everything I wanted to include. I looked at all the options and had to weigh the pros and cons of exactly what I wanted to have in the house, my main concern was getting the total space big enough and then building from there. I have future plans to make it exactly what I want.

It's not perfect right now, I'm still a work in progress, but I'm really happy with how it turned out and where it is today, so we'll start the

tour

outside. I wanted to show you exactly what I was working with when I bought it. This land was completely forested as seen here and there is a good slope as well, it's a little hard to see maybe on video but there was a good slope throughout the lot so the first thing that had to happen was to cut down trees so that I actually brought loggers here and they cut down about an acre and a half to two acres in the middle of my lot, so once they were done I had to do a lot of cleanup, they only took the biggest ones. logs, but that was okay because I had to save a lot of wood for firewood, as you'll see when we get inside.

I have a wood stove that I used to heat the living part of the house and there is a sort of small wood shed that I made to keep some of my firewood dry. Once we removed the trees we started the excavation and most of that was flattening the site for the house, so they did that by just scooping dirt off the top and dumping it. I took it down to the low side and they gave me this nice flat platform where the house is located. Some of the other major parts of the excavation were burying my electricity, so the electricity is actually coming from a road way up high and buried underground. here and then it goes to that corner of the

garage

as well for my septic system.

I needed to use a sand mound type system, so with that I have tanks that are actually located here, you can see the lids in my front yard, so the septic tank goes into those. tanks and then the liquids are pumped up the hill and that's where the sand mound system is so it's pretty nice because it's on a hill and in the woods so sometimes you can't see it if you're in a neighborhood that it has a mound of sand, you can see the big mound in the garden and it doesn't look that good, the other digging tasks that were done were rainwater retention, so if you see my gutters they actually go straight into the soil and then they run here into a large underground basin that is basically filled with rock.

I don't know if there are a couple different grades of rock there, the idea behind it is to disperse the rainwater back into the ground. I thought that was a little excessive, but it's what the code requires, so now it's for the actual structure of the house and the garage, it's a 50 by 70 structure, 50 by 48 is the garage and 50 by 22 is the living space, so This end that we're looking at here is obviously the tent. I have the garage door. I have a regular door on the side and then on the front of the garage I made these larger windows.

I think they are six foot windows. unlike a normal window, which I think is over three feet, so I made these windows larger in the front to let in more light and also by having a normal size window on this large wall, this is a wall of 14 feet which looks really small. So this gives it a little bit of a different look. When you get here, this is kind of the gateway to my house. I don't really use it like that because I only enter through the garage. This is the front door I have a couple of windows a light this is my chimney for my wood stove so here we run like the low side of my living space side of the house so on this end I tried to put a Lots of windows and two sliding doors to let in a lot of light and it really works well in the winter.

The sun is on this side of the house, so it heats the part of the house very well, so now I am on the upper side of the end of the living part of the house. So as you can see here I made a different roof pitch for the living section and I did it just to break up the structure so it didn't look like a huge warehouse and also that roof pitch gives me a second story in the living space and I I designed in such a way that the roof slopes line up perfectly. You can see the slope of the garage part and the slope of the living space section lined up, so with these two sliders on this end I definitely plan to do some type of deck or porch here and maybe put a little roof on it which should definitely improve the look and it would be nice to have a little bit of outdoor living space too so at the back of the house here I have a couple of windows that are in the living room and then I also have a door that leads to the garage.

I have a shower here, but I haven't built any walls in it yet. Here I have

full

size windows in the back of the house. I placed them, I think a little higher because I knew I was going to put a work table in there, so for now I just have stone around the entire house, I think it's called river rock. I definitely plan on doing probably more landscaping in the future but this works well for now, keeps the grass away from the house and gives it a pretty clean look and here we are in the garage part of the house. 50 by 48 with 14 foot ceilings and I did six inch concrete throughout the garage because at the time of planning I didn't really know where I was going to put the risers and stuff and normally with risers you need at least six inches of concrete, so I decided to do six inches around the entire garage for lighting initially, I just had the builders put in these three foot LED lights and initially they had nine in total, which actually lights us up really well.

I add what I can. I see a few more in certain areas like my work area here and my workout area in the back, but yeah, the LEDs do a really great job of illuminating the space, it definitely helps when you have white walls. I like that my garage was white. and I painted the big back wall white so I would never have a problem with having enough light in here. I also made sure I had plenty of outlets in the garage. You can probably see that I have outlets placed on the ceiling, there are outlets that are for just the lights that are on a switch and then there are other outlets that are in there, they're in the back.

I have a pull down extension cord that I love having and will probably add more in the future. I also made sure I had a 200 amp Service here to make sure I definitely had enough power for everything I'm going to run, like a lift and welders and maybe a compressor and things like that, so now let's get to the nitty-gritty stuff. detailed of the garage, so I finished the garage door. I decided to go with just one door, but it's pretty big, it's 18 feet wide and 12 feet high, so 18 feet wide is enough to fit two cars side by side, and I decided to go straight down the middle.

He went from one place to another. There are different theories about having two garage doors, but it has worked well for me to have just one large one in the middle. Also I made sure to put a drain in the garage floor right here so the concrete goes down a little bit that drain is right in that area so when it snows or rains I park a vehicle right there it can drip and go into the drain more or less and keeps the rest of the garage a little cleaner. I could also wash a car. I've only done that probably a couple of times here, but if it's the middle of winter and the weather is bad outside, you can wash a car here, so now I'm going to take you around the garage and show you the different things. aspects, I put a faucet inside and there is also one outside here.

I like having this one inside because I end up leaving my pressure washer hooked up to that and then I just bring the pressure washer in here to wash cars. outside that way it's always connected and then I can just bring it inside, easy access in this little area. I just have lawnmowers and you know, some rakes and things for exterior landscaping and then this wall and this general side is mostly storage. So, you know, I have a lot of old car parts. I'll probably need more storage. Over time, maybe you'll build more shelves so you can store things more efficiently.

So I have some straps and here are a bunch of wheels and tires, but whatever you can. Look, I have outlets in place because you know when I was designing I didn't know exactly how I was going to lay it out and it could certainly change in the future, so this is where the Jeep is at the moment and this is the back wall, so at the On the other side of this wall is the living space part, so here is my training area, pretty simple. I don't have everything you could want, but I have the essentials that are needed.

I built this. platform for deadlifts and a little platform under the rack to keep everything nice and clean, so then going through the training area, this is the door that actually goes to the living space section and after that I have a sink . I definitely would. I suggest having a sink in your garage, you know, if it's just for washing your very dirty hands or cleaning parts, it's good to have a sink in the garage to pose to come into your house, there's a toilet here, I always get it. comment on that why is there a toilet in your garage?

The toilet is connected and usable. I haven't built any walls around it yet. I definitely plan on building some walls around it, I think I'll keep the walls around the toilet so the sink is still easy to access and then beyond that there's more storage space which is like a paint cabinet, chemicals, you know , cleaners, things like that, that door leads to the backyard and then, the most important part, this. It is the garage work area shortly after the place was built. I bought an elevator. It's something I always wanted. I know how important it is to have a lift when working on cars, so this is the one I chose.

This I actually went to a dealer and put it on a trailer in pieces so this is the Atlas P v9p so it's only a 9,000 pound lift but it's the most commercial grade lift compared to your normal lift of 9,000 pounds that could tell you that this is a meteorite in that if you look at the arms and just the structure in general, it gives you a little more confidence, you know that when you are under a car, especially if you are alone, nothing goes to pass. broke and this has worked very well for me. I haven't had any problems with it, like I said, it came in pieces and a friend and I did the installation, it went pretty well, it took a couple of days and as for the location, like I said.

When I designed the house I didn't really know where the elevator was going to go, so if you look, I'm sure it's off to the side, but when you walk in the garage door you can turn around pretty easily and go right to the elevator area I put in. you know, just in case, if I ever wanted to put in another lift, I would probably go right here if I wanted to put in another two post lift and then also if I wanted to put in a four post lift. I would probably put it in the corner, which would be more for storage, but I have no real complaints with the location I chose.

I wanted it on the side so it's not right in the middle so I still have a lot of open space. area here, but I also didn't want it too close to my workbenches to be able to maneuver around it, so after about two years of having the lift here, I really don't have any complaints about the lift or the location where I chose to place it, As for what I have like machinery and tools, like I said, I still have a budget, I'm still young, I'm not going to waste a ton of money on things I don't need, so you know, I have some pretty basic tool boxes. , they work well, yes, they are not snap-on tool boxes, but they also cost a hundred dollars, not a thousand, so I am perfectly fine with the ones you know having a sander. saws I do a lot of metal work, so I have, you know, a metal cutting saw, I have a grinder, I have a couple of welders here, something to think about if you're designing a garage, definitely try to consider where your areas are going to be. of work and where you are going to place the workbenches, so II made sure that on this entire wall I had the outlets placed higher so here you can see there's one outlet and then there's a four pack outlet here so they're higher so you can know they're above the table area of work.

I also made sure I had a couple of 240 volt outlets. There's one here for my welder. I also put one on the roof, which is right there, because I had an idea that I wanted the elevator on this overall. area so I put the outlet there and then plugged in the lift and then I was able to plug it in properly, also keeping with the budget concern thing. I built my workbenches. I definitely suggest doing this if you are going to buy workbenches. They are generally very expensive and I probably don't need many of the things they have, but you know, a workbench like this will probably cost me less than a hundred dollars in materials.

I usually use a 2x3 construction for the top frame and then two-by-fours, fours as little legs, and if you know, if you want to make another shelf down here, I always use 3/4 inch plywood for the top surface because it's quite sturdy and you know you have to worry about breaking. I can stand on this work table and you know I can't. I didn't give it all and then this other workbench is actually 16 feet by about 3 feet and you can see here that we ended up cutting the plywood around the frame of the building so it goes all the way to the wall and that's just nice. pretty so you know that nothing can fall behind you.

I put a couple of shelves underneath and these are actually built as two separate workbenches. You can divide them in half. They're bolted together right now, but you can split them right there. It would be two eight foot benches and the total materials for all of that were, I think, about $150, so like I said, I got over 24 feet of workbench for about $250, so you really can't Get over that if I'm going to try to buy a workbench or buy something super fancy that you don't really need, so when we get back here I have some stuff storage here in the corner and then here are some of my lifting accessories, these?

You know, tall cats and this is an oil drain pan? I would suggest having both if you have an elevator, so that's it for the garage part as it is now, it's not insulated and it doesn't get hot, which it does. It gets a little cold in the winter months, but it's actually not that bad if you have a heater. I have, you know, one of those propane torpedo heaters. I would like to insulate it and heat it up at some point. I know that isolation alone will be enough. a lot for this, but like I said at the time, I didn't want to give up other things to isolate him.

I'd rather build, you know, a slightly larger garage and then eventually insulate it rather than build a smaller one. garage that might not be big enough, you know, in the future it would be insulated, so now before we get into the living part, I wanted to mention that this is a fire resistant wall that separates the garage and the living space, as you can see it in reality. it goes all the way to the roof line and that was required by code to have that fire rating between a garage space and a living space, so now we are in the living section of the house and this part is extremely simple and the Open living section is 50 by 22 and the ceilings are nine and a half feet, so the only section of living space I divided was the bedroom.

As you can see here, I have a drywall wall and a door that goes into my bedroom, so here it's just my bedroom, as you can see, I have the slider there, a lot of light comes in. I have a window. I have my bathroom and I have a small dressing room in here, so it's pretty basic. It's exactly what I need. I have a bit of an office space with my computer and stuff in there, but yeah, that's all I need for now. I think the bedroom area is about 15 by 22, so the rest of this space is completely open, so here I have more workbenches, this is where I have my vinyl cutter, so this is where I make decals or, you know, vinyl for t-shirts and stuff like that or I just work on anything that I can work on inside to keep out the cold here under the stairs.

I actually have my water heater in my pressure tank and I chose to do that because then I can keep it out of the garage. I don't have to worry about anything freezing and also going under the stairs is a good use of space. I plan to cover it where I have this. shelf right now and just make a wall here and probably put a little door to access the water heater. I haven't done it yet, but I plan to and that's why you can see I stained this section of the steps below because I plan to leave that exposed, so I have a little kitchen table here and this area is like a living room.

I have a few sofas, the most important part is the wood stove. The wood stove heats the entire living room section. I do not do it. I have to use any other type of heating if I leave. I have the electric sockets that you can see down there that I can turn on, they are not the most efficient in the world so the electric bill definitely goes up with those but I rarely have to use them so the wood stove makes a great I work here. I have a small television. I have my firewood storage and a friend and I did all the cooking.

We built the cabinets ourselves, I think they were from the cabinets available at Lowe's, no. Too expensive, the countertop is from Ikea, it's solid wood, so all we had to do was cut out this area for the sink, which turned out pretty well, and then we just cut this one lengthwise and I actually still have left four feet from that countertop. I can build a table with them. They come in eight-foot sections. They were really a good deal. I think they were like $120 each. I am very happy with the fact that the construction of the kitchen is not complete yet.

I don't have upper cabinets or my microwave. It's still on top of my refrigerator, so the microwave is going to go right here and that's why that outlet is there. I plan to do that soon by putting in some upper cabinets to really complete the kitchen build, although up to this point I've done that. It's not really a room. I don't really need that much space for stuff so this kitchen setup has worked perfectly well for me and the entire living section is insulated with rolls of fiberglass insulation on the walls, exterior walls and also the wall between the garage, what this is and then you've blown cellulose on the ceiling and it's actually very easy to regulate the temperature here.

It's nice in the winter I can let the sun in and it warms the area well and then in the summer I can close the shades and it stays quite cool as the concrete really regulates the temperature so it's never a big deal to keep it comfortable here in the summer , for now I only use a window air conditioning unit in my room, obviously, you can see that this is an extremely simple design. I created some plans for the future. If I want, I could put a small bedroom in this area and I'd probably like to put a wall to the left of this door to make it a little more of a hallway area. with my washer and dryer and also here I have space for a bathroom.

In fact, I can put a

full

bathroom down here. You can see that this is a drain for a future toilet and it is also a drain for a shower. If I want, I could probably get away with just making a half bathroom in there, but if I want, I could have a separate full bathroom, you know, if I put a bedroom here so you don't have to go into this bedroom to use the other bathroom and then here are my stairs to the second floor, so the second floor is unfinished. I'm basically using it as attic space right now, but I have a subfloor up here so I can use it for storage.

It was nice to be able to do it. Come up here and install my chimney for my wood stove back here. The final plan here is to make a master bedroom. I have the drains and pipes in place to be able to do that. I would probably put a bathroom in this corner room over here and a walk-in closet over here. I have this nice big window here that would be great to let some natural light into a room, so that's the final plan here, but for now as I said I'm just using it as a somatic space.

Next I'm going to address probably the biggest question that came out of my house construction video, which is cost. Everyone seems to want to know how much it costs to build something like this and I tell you the truth, the cost will depend on a lot of different things, but I will do my best to try to give you an idea of ​​what something like this costs based on what I paid and based on my research. when I was entering. building it and doing everything necessary to design it, build it and finish it first will be the price of the land and unfortunately I can't give you anything about the price of the land because that depends entirely on where you live.

If you're curious, just go online and look at some lots, a piece of land, and of course the size of the lot will change the price quite a bit. You know, if you're like me and you're doing welding and sanding work with loud cars, you probably want a bigger lot, so not as close to your neighbors, so the next step is the permitting and planning process for me, which cost between two and three thousand dollars, which will depend on the location again, down to how much your specific municipality or state requires you to do up front.

I had to do a lot. of planning with erosion and sediment control, so I had to make a complete plan for that, you know, you have to make several drawings that my municipality needed to get approval for the building and then move on to the main structure of the house so that include all the concrete framing, walls, doors and windows, so for me I have some walls internal to the structure. You know, if you're building just a garage and you don't have any internal walls, that's going to reduce that cost quite a bit. It had drywall inside.

Had some living areas finished. I cut some costs by doing a lot of the interior finishing, like you know, staining the trim. I built the kitchen, like I said, I painted the whole interior, so that always helps a lot and that's something. that anyone can really do it for me, that was in the range of 100 to 120 thousand dollars for the main structure of the building, next on electricity, so to get the electricity, I installed 200 amp service and lots of outlets, so if you're not as crazy as me it might be a little less than that but 10-15k is about what I paid now for plumbing well drilling.

I have a pretty simple setup. I have a well in my front yard, you know if you're anywhere. that you can get public water, then you won't have the cost of the well, but you will still have to know the internal plumbing. I didn't do anything too crazy so it was on the lower end of that range but the range I put between twelve and eighteen thousand after the septic system so this has a huge range because it will really depend again on where you are for my location There's a lot of rock in the ground here so I wasn't approved for a traditional septic system so I needed to use a sand mount system like I showed you outside so I was actually on the higher end of that range but you know that if they can get away with a more traditional system it will be on the lower side of that range and for excavation it will again depend on your specific lot.

I was dealing with a wooded lot that had a lot of slope, so again it was more on the upper end of that range, it could be a lot lower if it's, you know? perfectly flat lot that has no trees your excavation cost could go down a lot some of that was for the trenches for my septic system that go up the same hill and also the trench for my electricity the other big cost that came up in the end was that retention basin of rainwater that I talked about outside took up about half of the excavation budget, so it will bring the total to about one hundred thirty-four to one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, so again, it will all depend on what you do. what you specifically want to do and what you're going to use the building for if you're not going to have living space inside and you're dealing with a perfectly flat lot, you know you don't need a lot of the things I mentioned it can be a lot less than what I have there, but If you want to be like me and live inside and want to make a finished living space, then you will be more in the upper range of what I have there so I will conclude the tour of my house and my store.

I hope I have answered many of your questions. It's still a work in progress, but I'm very happy with where it is. If you have any additional questions, let me know in the comments and I will answer them. Again, if you want to see the complete construction of this house, I will put a link somewhere in this area that will take you from when I bought them to a complete house,so that's all. today and thanks for watching