Steel Buildings Are More Than Garages and Storage Buildings

Prefab steel buildings have built a lot of popularity lately among homeowners. They’re often touted as the best choices for garages and storage buildings, but they offer many advantages for lots of other uses. In fact, pre-engineered and prefabricated steel buildings can be used for almost any purpose you can imagine. Here are just a few of the ways that we’ve seen metal buildings used recently.

Greenhouses

How hard is it to turn a steel building kit into a greenhouse? In most cases, not hard at all, especially if you’re working with a manufacturer who’ll customize your metal building to your specifications. The biggest difference between a garden shed and a greenhouse is windows. It’s not difficult for an engineer to include windows and skylights in the plans for a steel building. Since the interior is completely open, you’ll have plenty of room for shelves, racks and watering systems.

Home Offices

If you want to work out of your home without working in your home, it makes sense to put up a separate building to house your office. Steel buildings come in all sizes, so you can easily choose one that is exactly the right dimensions to house your office or workshop. Because you don’t need to dig a foundation for smaller steel buildings, they’re more affordable than wood-frame buildings. And if you’re using it strictly as a workspace, you’ll probably be able to deduct at least part of the expense from your taxes, making it even more affordable.

Kennels

Forget the doghouse. If you have more than one dog, a steel building is the ideal solution to comfortable housing. You can incorporate dog crates, food storage and even an indoor dog run and exercise area into the plans. Animal shelters all over the country are turning to steel buildings to house their rescues until they’re adopted.

In-Law Apartment

Steel buildings are gaining a new appreciation for residential use. It’s often more affordable to put up a metal building than it is to put an addition onto your house or even to renovate a basement or attic. You can design your building from scratch, right down to specifying how many electrical outlets you want and building in the channels to run wires and pipes for plumbing.

Today’s steel buildings are versatile, affordable and attractive. You can choose from many different exterior finishes and styles, so that your finished building fits your property seamlessly. Steel buildings make great garages and carports, of course, but they’re also the ideal solution for many other uses.