32 by 35 studio? am I crazy?

Hello Everyone, My name is Jeff and I’m a recording geek. I finally decided to build a new studio and I need your help! If anyone has been in this situation before I would love to know what you did! I have a large pole barn that I plan on building a studio in. I’ve got a budget of around 15k, which isn’t much but I will have to make due. I will do most of the work by trading time. So the pole barn is 70 by 32 feet. It’s just a shell however it does have good power and a restroom already in place. It has a v upside down v shaped roof with 16 foot ceelings (in the middle) At the moment only half of the floor has concrete and part of me is thinking that I should sink all of my money into that 35 by 32 foot section, and add on to the studio at a later time. Any thoughts? I do have an 8.5-foot neve that will have to fit, a large producers desk, I need to be able to record a 4 piece comfortably. I would like to have an iso booth, and a small Machine room for power supplies, computers etc. I also have a 4’ 7 baby grand piano. So am I crazy, does anyone think I could fit all of that in a 35 by 32 building? I look forward to your thoughts. Thanks Jeff

35'X32' is big enough to fit an entire studio into it. You should have no trouble getting a great studio in there, even in just half of the building. So there's no floor in one half, huh? That concrete floor would probably be a big part of your budget, so yeah, you're doing the right thing by leaving it. If you're doing most of the labor yourself (or trading time for it, either way) and you can spend 15k on materials and heat/electrical work, you should be in pretty good shape. My advice would be to build it with a master plan of the overall building tho. Come up with a design that will be easy to expand into the rest of the space. The schemes that come to mind initially are these... a) build a control room and tracking room that you can eventually turn into one room. Build them in such way that when you expand, you can just remove the wall between them and have one large room. b) build the bare necessities into the smaller space, but with a control room that is big enough for both the short-term and long-term plans. Add stuff like the iso booth later, and perhaps build a tracking room that is just barely big enough for now. Then when you get the concrete floor in the other half of the building, you can add all the extra rooms. c) Have the short-term plan use a single room for both control and tracking. Deal with an all-in-one-room studio for now, with the iso booth, machine room, lounge, and all the extras. If your control room is big enough (and 35x32 is plenty for that) then you can have it all happen in there. Then when it's time to expand, the whole other half of the building is nothing but tracking room- and having a 35'x32' tracking room would be a very sweet room. Your work habits will determine which of these would work best for you. Build a studio that'll work in the short run, but keep your eyes on the long-term goals too. This will be a very sweet space if you do it right.