See the yellow shed on the right in the photo? It’s chock-full of all the things needed for a country property, and it’s about to fall down. No seriously, the roof caved in on the inside. 🤣 So, we need a metal building.
Now, this is what most metal buildings look like…
But this is what I envision our metal building looking like…
Now, I know this is a bit unrealistic (because these are wood barns, and we are building a metal building), but a girl can dream!! So I’m using the barns as my inspiration! I want it to match (or look like it goes with) our farmhouse.
We (my dad and I) started off with a basic sketch of the structure. In this picture, he drew two different cupola sizes for me to decide between. I decided on the 3’ ft cupola. There will be a total of 6 garage doors– 3 on each side. I hope it will feel like an open air building when you open all 6 doors.
Now to make the building pretty… I knew I wanted a clean farmhouse look, so we decided on gooseneck lights and divided-light doors and windows. Here’s a drawing of the front of the metal building when we were trying to decide which divided-light pattern to go with for the windows and the gooseneck light placement…
We decided to go with the window on the left of the double doors. And just in case you are looking for really great doors for a really great price, we found this door at Home Depot. I’m in love with it! It will have windows that go all the way down (a 2×4 window pattern), but this is basically the door.
These are the windows…
These are the exterior and interior lights from Amazon…
The Redondo in black linked here // The Manhattan in white linked here
Now, for the garage doors. Dad and I headed out to Halo Overhead Doors to check out their warehouse full of garage doors…
…and we found a white garage door that matched the white metal building. That’s my dad holding the metal building sheet on the left. He’s the best. I didn’t really like the carriage door look, since it’s not really a carriage house. So, after lots and lots of hemming and hawing (by me), we decided on this garage door.
After our garage door selection, my dad plugged it into his drawing, and I couldn’t be happier with the result! Have you ever seen prettier garage doors?!? If you have, don’t tell me. Hahaha!
Next step is designing the inside. For the bathroom, I’m taking inspiration from @miracleonthirtyfourth! Check out her son’s bathroom…
I forgot to tell y’all, my dad is an engineer! I’d be lost without him! After all this is said and done, I think I’m going to do something special with all his drawings! Let me know in the comments if you have any creative ideas of what to do with them!
Ok, that’s all for now! I’ll keep you updated as we make more progress on this project!
