FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Longhorn BARNDOMINIUMS – Where Bold Vision Meets Architectural Excellence

What is a Barndominium?

Longhorn Barndominiums – Australia’s Home Of The Barndomonium! A Barndominium is a ranch-style home that found it’s roots in middle America and quickly caught fire, expanding to other states and north to Canada. Barndominiums can best be understood from photos rather than words, but ultimately blend the rustic charm of traditional barn styling with the comfort and elegance of a modern residence, to create a distinctively stunning home. It typically features open-plan living, high ceilings, and a mix of metal, stone and timber construction.

Do you build Barndominiums anywhere in Australia?

Short answer, Yes! Our expert Longhorn Homes Barndominium building teams travel nationwide to bring your dream home to life, no matter where your property is located. That said, given the team are skilled Barndominium experts, they’re in high demand and short supply, so best to check with us on when we can get them to your project.

How do you handle remote or difficult to access locations?

This is one of the critical elements of the Longhorn Barndominiums building team. Barndominiums are stunningly unique in design, their aesthetic architectural outcome comes with uncommon and specialty construction techniques and tooling requirements. For that reason, we have compiled a team of expert Barndominium builders, who we dispatch to our clients projects. The Longhorn Barndominium building team base themselves on-site (wherever that may be) and take full ownership of delivering our clients dreams. Our team will manage your project on-site, ensuring every element is expertly crafted.

Can I customise the design of my Barndominium?

Absolutely. Every Longhorn Barndominium must fit our client perfectly. Our award winning in-house architect will work with you to ensure your Barndominium is exactly the way you want, to suit your lifestyle, land, and vision. Our architect has created some Barndominium designs for you to use as inspiration for your custom design, or you can use them as a starting point, or you can use them just they way they are, the decision is yours. What we’ll do, is listen to your needs, and provide options, to ensure you get exactly the outcome you’re after.

What’s the typical size or layout of a Longhorn Barndominium?

Barndominiums are designed for you, so size is totally flexible. That said, most of our clients build Barndominiums in the 350m² -750m² range.

Do you have display homes I can visit?

Unlike a volume builder, we don’t have dedicated display homes given our Barndominiums are designed for you specifically, not for the masses. Contact us and we can organise a walk-through of our ''under-construction'' Barndominiums or already completed client Barndominiums (with their permission of course).

What’s included in your standard build package, and do you build to full turn key finish?

We have inclusion packs that our clients can select as is, use as a starting point and modify, or start from a blank page, ultimately it’s really up to you. Longhorn Barndominiums truly is the expert and can deliver your dream home from start to finish, you just turn on the sprinkler. Equally if you want to put the finishing touches in yourself, we can part-build and leave the rest to you. Being flexible to our clients needs is of paramount importance to us, so our team will work with you on the outcome that’s right for you.

How long does it take to build a Barndominium?

Timelines vary depending on location, design complexity, and approvals. We provide transparent timeline advise and scheduling for our clients from inception and through the process to keep you informed at each stage.

Do you offer off-grid or sustainable building options?

Absolutely, we love and use sustainable building materials and practices all through our Longhorn Barndominiums. And with regards to off-grid, when building in secluded locations is your specialty, you become an expert in self-sustainable buildings, so yes we offer full off-grid solutions if that's what you want / your site needs.

Do you handle council approvals and permits?

Yes. We have a team of experts that can manage the full building approval process, if that’s what you want (if you want us to create your design and you take it from there, that’s fine too). The team work with specialist expert engineers, surveyors, town planners and certifiers to ensure everything is compliant, approvable and results in a ready to build approval.

Do you offer financing or work with lenders?

Whilst we don't offer finance ourselves, we do have close connections with lenders that specialise in home lending for new construction of this type that we'd be happy to connect you with.

Do you offer finance for the builds?

Whilst we don't offer finance ourselves, we do have close connections with lenders that specialise in home lending for new construction of this type that we'd be happy to connect you with.