He builds a metal building, sometimes called a pole barn or machine shed, to shelter the boat and decides to save some hotel dollars by fixing up the inside of the building for eating and sleeping ...

Called "suburban" pole barns, they are used for storage, workshops, hobby shops and offices. Some even serve as an extension of home and are finished off to be recreational rooms.

If you want a well built and efficient home (barndo on a budget) a barndominium or post frame (pole barn) home might be a good option for you.

Grab your piece of Iowa land away from the city on this 6-acre lot in Prole, between Martensdale and Norwalk, with a nearly new home that is a custom-built pole barn with tons of space and extras ...

Shipping container dwellings are a spin-off of the popular “pole barn” homes. The containers are not semitrailers but built much stronger, to be used on barges, ships, and trains.

Like high-end homes, barns can have reclaimed wood installed as floors or stamped concrete that resembles old hardwood flooring.

13-on-your-side West Michigan contractor only excavated land for pole barns before disappearing with deposits Jason White and Matt Deja hired Cody Strickland, who claimed to own CB Construction.