The starterSingle levelShed Home #01
The classic two-bedder.
- Beds
- 2
- Baths
- 1
- Floor area
- 91 m²
- Shell kit from · inc GST
- $57,200
Design your dream home.
We engineer & supply the kit.
Design it free in 3D. We coordinate the engineering and supply the Australian-steel kit.
- Real-time 3D design studio
- Genuine COLORBOND® colours
- $27.9k
- Shell kits from · inc GST
- 15
- Designs — 44–195 m² slab
- Since '07
- Perfecting portal frames
- 1
- Model — sketch to steel
Shed Home #09 · Single level
The full-size family home.
3 bed2 bath168.8 m² slab7.5 × 22.5 m
$86,350
Kit from · inc GST
Shell kit only · delivery, slab, windows & doors, fit-out additional
Shed Home #08 · Single level + mezzanine
Two-storey living, king-size sleeping.
3 bed1 bath98 m² slab + 46.9 m² mezzanine7.0 × 14.0 m
$71,170
Kit from · inc GST
Shell kit only · delivery, slab, windows & doors, fit-out additional
Pod · Single level + mezzanine
Your first step onto your own block.
1 bed1 bath44 m² slab + 15.9 m² mezzanine5.3 × 8.3 m
$27,910
Kit from · inc GST
Shell kit only · delivery, slab, windows & doors, fit-out additional
The design series
Proven designs, ready for your block.
Click any design to explore floor plans, specifications and kit pricing — every one built on our engineered portal-frame system, ready for site-specific engineering, and customisable in the Shouse Designer.
The starterSingle level
Two storeyShed Home #03
Double-height drama, mezzanine living.
- Beds
- 3
- Baths
- 2
- Total floor
- 255 m²
- Shell kit from · inc GST
- $96,800
Single levelShed Home #04
Two pavilions, one breezeway.
- Beds
- 2
- Baths
- 1
- Floor area
- 143 m²
- Shell kit from · inc GST
- $67,650
Single levelShed Home #05
The narrow-lot ninja.
- Beds
- 2
- Baths
- 1
- Floor area
- 73 m²
- Shell kit from · inc GST
- $45,320
The Shouse Designer™ · free, in your browser
Not a brochure. A design studio, in your browser.
Design your own barn home in the Shouse Designer — draw the floor plan, drop in windows and skylights, flip to 3D, and render it photoreal on your own block. Love it? When your project gets real, the same model becomes your drawings, your engineering and your kit quote.
shousedesigner.com
Free. Actually free.
Design for as long as you like — you pay nothing until your project gets real.
No CAD skills needed
It feels like sketching. The structural grid quietly keeps everything buildable.
See it, spin it, render it
Live 3D and photoreal renders of YOUR design — not a lookalike from a catalogue.
Share it with a link
Text your partner the link — they spin your home in 3D on their phone. Autosaves to your account.
Designed by you · Engineered for your site
Then it's engineered to stand up.
Behind every render is a portal frame checked member by member as you draw — the demand on every column and rafter against its capacity, for your exact spans and wind region, C1–C4 cyclonic included. That first pass keeps you inside the system; the site-specific engineering that a certifier relies on is produced in Stage Two. Your home isn't adapted from a shed table.
- Demand ÷ capacity computed per member, per portal — a first pass, as you draw
- Engineered to YOUR spans, bays and wind region
- The same model quotes the kit — structure and price can’t drift apart
- Site-specific engineering produced by qualified professionals, coordinated by MBA, before anything is manufactured
shouse-designer — portal frame · engineering view
✓Slab set out — from your floor plan✓Portal frames — 100% Australian BlueScope steel✓Portal strength — spans and loads stud walls can’t carry✓Deeper 150 mm walls — up to R4.0 insulation for 7-Star headroom✓Internal walls — where your plan wants them, not where the frame needs them✓Mezzanine — bearers land on the portal columns, so the floor below stays open✓Pre-punched, bolt-together — a two-person crew raises it
Who does what
- You
- Own the project — the land, the approvals, the builder or the owner-builder permit.
- Qualified professionals
- Produce the site-specific engineering and the energy pathway.
- MBA
- Coordinates the technical pathway, records the engineering release, quotes and supplies the kit.
- Council · certifier
- Make every approval decision.
MBA is not your builder, certifier or approval authority.
A real build · Weymouth, Tasmania
Shed Home #03. Not a render — a home.
The double-height flagship from the series, designed in our system, delivered as a kit and raised on a real block on Tasmania's north coast. These are photos from the actual build — slab, steel, mezzanine, fit-out.
The same design is open in the Shouse Designer right now — floor plan, 3D model and kit pricing. What you sketch is what gets built.
No money surprises
Every dollar, on the table.
Each step priced before you take it — and you can stop at any rung with everything you've paid for in hand. The formal quote comes after engineering, against a named engineering release.
- Free
Design
Create it — the full Designer, 3D, your real block, and a live indicative kit price as you draw. Free, for as long as you like.
- $299 inc GST
Detailed Estimate
Understand it — MBA turns your project into reviewed facts: a kit estimate with its basis stated, your block read, and one clear next decision. Indicative, and not a supply quotation. Valid 30 days.
- $1,200 inc GST
Stage One · Preliminary Drawings
Document it — the issued A3 set of your exact home on your exact block, with MBA’s site-fit review and wind verification. Credited to the kit.
- $5,000 inc GST
Stage Two · Engineering
Engineer it — site-specific engineering and the energy pathway, produced by qualified professionals and coordinated by MBA.
- Evidence
Engineering release
MBA records the professional outputs and the engineering-resolved bill of materials for your design revision.
- Issued
Formal quote
MBA issues a written supply quotation against the release — an offer with a 14-day validity, accepted per the terms.
- Kit
Kit supply
MBA supplies it — every member counted from the model, flat-packed to your site. Your builder or owner-builder builds it.
Kit prices are “from” prices inc GST for the engineered shell — delivery, slab, windows and fit-out additional.
Stop buying plans. Design for free.
Design your home free in the Shouse Designer. When your project gets real, every rung is priced before you take it — and the formal quote comes after engineering.
Aussie-made · BlueScope steel · Nationwide delivery