A friend has a bale house, heats the place with a wood stove.

Pole building with half of it being shop area and the rest is the living quarters. Shell it up and finish as you can afford to. Bale houses are great but wait a few years and see how you like them. I know of two that are/where about 20 years old and had to be torn down due to leakage. Once that starts then you have to deal with rotting vegetation, bugs, snakes to name a few things. Many times you don't know theres a problem until its too late.

My wife and I built this post and beam house ourselves with no heavy equipment. I have a small sawmill and cut and finished all the beams myself. As of last year we were able to get all the zip sheathing on before the crazy spike in prices. As of right now we have spent 45k on the entire project including the foundation. The only downfall is the time it has taken. Took a couple years to get all the beams milled and dried, and only working weekends it has taken 3 years to get to the point we are at.

That's some impressive work Dan !!

Just a question...........not a criticism..... I notice the rafter tail on the right side of the picture does not extend past the edge of the beam....unlike the tails on the other side.
Is there something else going to butt up against that side ?

There is going to be a covered deck going on the right side, and that is where the rafters will connect. I was hoping to get that done over last summer, but I waited too long and couldn't find any pressure treated lumber.

That's quite an undertaking all by yourselves. Impressive.