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Barn Renovation and Conversion
When you are planning a barn renovation there are some special considerations that do not arise with a house based project. Some of these have been already discussed in their specific sections, so here I will give an overview of the main things to be considered.
Space
The biggest challenge of planning a barn renovation, is knowing how to use the space available to its best advantage.
Often an unconverted barn will have several metres of head-room, and a floor area of perhaps 120-250 square metres. That is a lot of space, and there are two fundamentally different approaches that are taken to using it.
The first approach aims to build more or less a conventional house within the barn shell; and the second aims to keep the barn ‘as a barn’. There is inevitably a bit of the two approaches in any barn renovation, a middle path that attempts to combine the best of both options. In practice you inevitably move towards one or the other of the two possibilities. You will ned to know at the outset what you are intending.
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