Choose Steel Buildings for Affordable Guest Houses

Is your empty nest filling back up with adult children and their families moving back home? The tight job market has made it difficult for many young adults to make it on their own and the obvious choice is to move back home with mom and dad. That can be awkward and uncomfortable for both kids and parents who are used to their privacy. A guest house offers an excellent solution for everyone involved, but building guest house can be incredibly expensive. Steel buildings, which are often used as garages and barns, also make excellent guest houses with just a few modifications.

Affordable and Easy to Build

Most people are more familiar with steel buildings used as storage buildings and garden houses, but the same structures can serve quite well as small guest houses, complete with plumbing for bathrooms and kitchens, and wiring for electricity, Internet and cable. Today’s steel buildings are very affordable, and if you’re reasonably handy, you can save on the cost of construction by doing the basic construction yourself. Metal building kits provide everything you need to put up the exterior of your building to customize as you desire.

Eminently Customizable

The many styles of steel buildings on the market make it easy to choose a structure that’s distinctive and attractive and that looks right at home next to the main house. You can choose from modified Quonset buildings, A-frames and arch frame construction, and pick out your choice of exterior color and trim. The interior is even more customizable. Steel buildings have no interior support columns, so you can adapt the interior to suit any floor plan you want.

Attractive and Easy to Maintain

The many choices of exterior color and trim makes it easy to match your guest house to your main house, making it an attractive addition to your property. You can choose from a number of trim packages, windows, doors and even skylights to make them comfortable and attractive inside and out. Even better, metal buildings require very little in the way of upkeep and maintenance. A new steel building won’t require repainting for decades. You’ll just need to hose it down once or twice a year to keep it clean and fresh.

Privacy and Comfort

Steel buildings are the ideal solution when you need to add living space to your property. With the right modifications and additions, a metal building is a comfortable and cost-effective way to provide a place for your adult children without sacrificing your privacy or theirs.