The Many Options Available for Steel Buildings

When you consider the many options and features available to customize steel buildings, it’s easy to understand why they’re as popular as they are. Just a few years ago, a homeowner wanting to put up a storage building on his property might choose a wooden or fiberglass building from the local home improvement store. Today, those who want quality construction and want to avoid the cookie cutter syndrome that afflicts so many of the models of storage buildings available at big box stores often turn to steel buildings instead.

Choose the Color and Style You Want for Your Steel Building

Steel buildings come in a wide variety of styles, shapes and colors, even before you start considering the many different trim options they offer. Most manufacturers offer their steel building kits in many different colors, usually as powder-coated steel. Powder coating is one of the most durable forms of painting and colorant available because it allows the paint to bond with the metal beneath. The color on steel buildings won’t fade, crack, blister or peel. And while many dealers have a set range of colors, others allow you to order your building in custom colors, making it possible for you to match it exactly to your house or to use the same colors that you’ve chosen for your branding and marketing.

The most common and best-known style of steel building is the Quonset building, the rounded, domed hoop buildings commonly seen throughout the Midwest, but that’s only one of many different styles available. You can choose modified arch buildings in A-frames or steel buildings with straight walls and rounded roofs. You can choose from arched or gable roofs, add windows and skylights, choose from many different types of doors and other exterior trim to finish off the look of your building.

Customizing the Interior of Your Steel Building

One of the biggest advantages of steel buildings is that they allow a virtually limitless array of interior floor plans. Because they don’t require interior support posts, arch buildings give you the full interior to sculpt your interior from. You can add mezzanines and lofts to take advantage of the extra height in most steel buildings. You can add partitions to create private rooms, and make them movable to allow you some flexibility in creating your floor plan.

Depending on the choices you make, you can turn your metal building into a workshop with workbenches or an automobile lift, a home office with carpeting, electricity and interior walls or a garage with storage shelving and a small workbench. Whatever your needs, the simple design of a basic steel building gives you the options and the flexibility you need to create almost anything you want.