In 2010, my husband and I built our 4,500-square-foot barndominium ... cost us under $130,000 to build. We lived in an RV on the land while we worked on the 235-square-foot guest house.

Shouses can be just as fancy as barndominiums with swimming pools and fancy exteriors with cedar posts, rock finishes and glass garage doors. Ken and Janeen Jindra’s shouse in Clarkson ...