Our Barndom
arndominiums (also known as a “Barndo”) have been gaining popularity over the last decade and seem to be sweeping the nation by way of social media. From stunning patios with vaulted ceilings to large open floor plans, barndominiums have the ability to transform a blank canvas into a dream home. It isn’t surprising that barndos stop people in their tracks and leave them wanting more. Stacee Lynn, “the Barndominium Lady”, is no different. “In the 1980’s I picked up a newspaper one day and read an article about a
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man taking a barn and transforming it into a place where he and his horses lived. He coined the term ‘barndominium’ in that story and it kind of just stuck with me, but I never thought much more of it. A few years later, my husband and I were living in Kentucky, bought 40 acres and decided to build a small wood frame barndominium. Unfortunately we never got to complete the project because work took us to a different state and we had to sell the property. Fast forward another 20 years, our children were grown, my husband and I found 14 acres out in the country. We decided to build another barndominium so I started drawing up design
plans as I had always designed our homes in the past. Some time went by and I couldn’t find the right builders for the project. My husband suggested I be the builder and just contract out anything that I couldn’t do myself. I became the general contractor on our own home. I started sharing the process on social media and you would have thought I was giving away gold! The followers started eating it up and about five months into the process, I started waking up to thousands of new followers. Someone made a comment on a post and asked if I designed barndominiums for other people. A different person responded saying, ‘Yes she does cause she’s designing