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Technically not a garage, but need some expert opinions.

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Olympus

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I just bought a large piece of "recreational" property mostly to hunt, hike, and trail ride with ATVs. The property is only about 40 minutes from my house, but I'd like to build a cabin at some point in the future for added fun and comfort. Like a rustic weekend getaway kinda thing. The property already had a mobile home that has since been removed. But it has a well and electric meter still there and both are ready to go.

So I'm trying to get an idea on what a small cabin would cost, approximately 600 to 700sqft. One big open room with one bathroom. I'd really like to go as cheap as possible and I could probably finish out the inside on my own. But maybe just a cabin built on posts or something like that. I don't want to get too deep in this project. A basic cabin as cheap as I can go, that I can insulate and finish the inside. Small potbelly wood stove kinda thing.

What kind of ballpark price could I expect to pay for something like that? Now there are no "codes" or inspections that things have to meet. This property is very rural.
 
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James-W

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This is probably rather far out of your budget range, but I think a small log cabin would be a really nice addition to the property. If you could swing it I think it would be ideal for long term use.
 
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We just finished up the dry in phase of a 640 square foot (32x20) cabin.

Ours is a foundation build with insulated slab and has an absurd number of windows and glass doors. We're well over $50 per square foot but nowhere near $100. That's with hiring nearly everything out but not including dirt work (long story).

We went with a single slope roof to save money on trusses and to have most of our windows facing the lake. I had more than a few people tell me to do the roof with SIPs and I think they were right. We did ours with I-joists which ended up being more labor than I expected. But DIY friendly if you're going that route. Just a lot of mindless labor cutting blocking for the strapping.

I-joists ended up being around $55 each. Parallel chord vaulted trusses to get to our approved overall height would have been around three to four times that much as I recall. And trusses wouldn't have worked as well as some windows we lucked into (more on that later).

We're going with an acid stained slab for most of the floor to save money. Where there is a framed floor we might just go with finished OSB (Google for pictures).

We went to our local Pella franchise and they had a bunch of windows that had been rejected by homeowners. Two sliding doors were sent out by Pella for stain and the homeowner didn't like the color. I got those for well under half of full retail.

Three fiberglass picture windows (4x8, 6x2 & 6x4) had the wrong color fiberglass on the interior and one had a slight ding from when it was re-loaded for return. I got all of those for $600 (total, not each). We literally designed the cabin around the 4x8 picture window.

Despite a great deal, the window package was still very expensive as we did order some other matching windows & doors.

We also purposely kept the cabin a simple rectangle and kept the eaves and gables at even multiples of 4'. A square of same square footage tends to be cheaper to build than an elongated rectangle but didn't work for our lot.

I can't seem to upload pictures anymore but not sure they'd help anyways.
 
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Im going to throw this in: There was an atv trail system I went to in new hamshire this past june. The place I stayed at had an older main house, but 3 small little 2 bedroom cabins with a basic kitchen, 1/2 bath and enough room to hang out in. Totally prefab, but the owner told us they cost her only like 20k.

Might be something to look into. Or perhaps a trailer until you can figure it out. Weused a trailer at my property until a house was built many moons ago.
 
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Richard Cranium

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There is company's that have prefab cabins, If 20k is too much for you then you might have to build it your self. Good luck. Oh and post a pic of your new property please.
 
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Olympus

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I'm definitely wanting to do the interior myself. I'm hoping I can find some local carpenter to build the actual building.
 
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When I built my parents cabin I took a short cut and ordered a garage from one of the local companies, 20x24 shell kit ran less than $4k that did not include any windows or doors, the kit showed up as expected in premade panels that 2 guys could handle, roof trusses and a numbered plan. It took 3 of us 2 days to completely close it in including cutting and framing out the door. The next weekend I did all the interior framing and installed all the windows by myself.


Oh the kit was 2x6 walls all in after it was completely done it cost then $18k including appliances and a Biolet toilet that we replaced the next summer with a regular toilet.
 
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ducksface said:
Tough shed at home Depot.
They install.
Sizes from 4x8 to 24x36 two story units.
$10,000 will far more than cover what you want.
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That is what I would do !

Pour a slab or build a good raised deck/floor. The floor they sell (at extra cost) are not very good.
 
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