Barndominiums
Steel or post-frame homes — typically simple, efficient shapes, often more shop than house to start, and planned to grow with your budget and family.
Preconstruction planning & coordination
Plan your project before construction plans it for you.
It starts with a plan. Solvara designs your barndominium or custom home, grounds the budget against the drawings, and gets you build-ready — a clear path to financing, engineering, and a builder.
Serving 14 states, with real planning ranges — not guesswork.
- States set up to serve
14
States set up to serve
- Founder's hands-on design & build experience
~11 yrs
Founder's hands-on design & build experience
- Projects across the founder's career
250+
Projects across the founder's career
- Honest budget ranges, up front
Published
Honest budget ranges, up front
What Solvara is
The team that gets you build-ready.
You get build-ready plans, a grounded budget you can actually trust, and a clear path to financing, engineering, and a builder. We're the design, planning, and coordination team that turns a scattered idea into a coordinated plan set and an honest number — the part most people underestimate.
We set expectations honestly, catch problems before they become problems, and make sure your plan and your budget actually match. Solvara plans and coordinates; the building itself is done by the contractor you choose.
“From the very beginning, their budgeting process was transparent, organized, and easy to understand. They took the time to explain costs, provide realistic expectations, and help us make informed decisions that fit our budget without feeling pressured. Communication was one of the standout aspects of our experience — responsive, professional, and proactive in keeping us updated, answering questions, and addressing any concerns along the way.”
The honest-budget difference
Most people start building without a real number. We'll give you one — as an honest range.
Building costs vary by state, scope, and site, so we don't hand you a single figure and call it a promise. We give you a grounded under-roof planning range for your state, explain exactly what's in it and what isn't, and refine it as your plans and pre-approval come together.
No gold-fixture fantasy. No budget that quietly balloons. Just numbers you can actually plan around.
$152to$402.50/sqft
A blended under-roof rate — living space, garage, and covered porches combined. Your state's range sits somewhere in this span.
$54to$75/sqft
What Solvara coordinates and supplies. Never blended into the all-in build cost above.
This is a planning range for total under-roof square footage — living space, garage, and covered patios/porches combined — based on current scope and assumptions and subject to review. It covers the home build from sub-slab plumbing and up. It does not include land, site work, utilities, septic or well, driveways, or finish upgrades. A precise number requires plans and lender pre-approval — until then, any figure is an estimate, not a quote or guarantee.
What we help you build
One honest process, whatever you're building.
Different front doors, the same honest planning flow behind all of them — and every one of them starts with a plan.
Custom homes
Traditional stick-built homes, designed to your land and your budget — made to be buildable, not just pretty.
Affordable & sub-$300k homes
A real, honest path to owning and building — grounded in a budget you can actually hit, not a fantasy number.
Small & starter homes
Smart, efficient plans that fit the land, the budget, and how you actually live day to day.
Metal building kits & supplies
Real supplier pricing on the steel kit itself — coordinated or supplied, and never blended into the all-in build cost.
On the jobsite
Plans that hold up where the work actually happens.
How it works
The 5-phase process.
You commit one phase at a time. No signing your whole future away on day one.
See the Full ProcessPreliminary Design
We design what you want and get it on paper — while we line up your lender and land connections in parallel.
Budget Alignment
Once you are pre-approved, we compare the design against what you can actually build and set what final design should adjust.
Final Design & Construction Docs
The detailed construction drawings — designed to your buildable budget, working through the big-ticket cost drivers.
Engineering & Metal Package
Engineering coordination when required, and real supplier pricing on the metal building kit.
Contractor Path
Qualified introductions to construction professionals, so you can move toward building with the right team.
Why Solvara is different
Straight with you, start to finish.
Clarity before commitment
You understand the scope, the budget, and the next step before the big decisions — not after.
Grounded budget alignment
Real ranges, honest exclusions, and a plan that matches the money — so the design doesn't quietly outrun the budget.
Guidance without pressure
We tell you what comes next, what's included, and what might change — so there are no surprises, just decisions you're ready for.
Who we help
People who value a straight answer.
Whether you have land or you're still looking, whether you're building your forever home or your first, the process is built to meet you where you are.
- Veterans
- Hobby farmers
- First-time land buyers
- First-time home builders
- Retirees & downsizers
- Move-up & growing families
- Rural & agricultural owners
- Landowners & acreage buyers
- Homesteaders & off-grid
- Self-builders
Want a real answer today?
Talk to a person, not a form.
Leave your name and number and we'll call you back — usually the same day. No commitment, no sales pitch. Prefer to call now? Even faster.
Call 712-540-1929
Grounded budgets
A number you can build around — before the first board is cut.
Where we work
Set up to serve 14 states.
We're set up to serve 14 states across the South, Midwest, and Mountain West. Tell us your state and we'll come back with a grounded range and a clear next step for where you're building.
See All 14 States
Jacob, Solvara's founder, brings roughly a decade of hands-on residential and commercial experience — design, drafting, estimating, purchasing, and project management, plus most of the trades it takes to build a home.
He started Solvara to close the gap he kept seeing: clients making big decisions without enough alignment between design, budget, and next steps.
Plan with clarity. Prepare with confidence.
Tell us your location, your land status, and your budget range, and we'll come back with a clear next step.