Building advice

[longcory52]

Hi everyone, pleased to be join the forum. My name is Cory, my wife and I live in Western Newfoundland. We have recently obtained some crown land that we hope to have a cabin on in the near future.

Currently, we are looking at some different options including building our own cabin, or possibly purchasing and having a pre built shed/cabin placed on our spot.

The 14x24 cabin style plans available on this website are ideally what we want as far as style and size. I do have some intermediate building experience, but am definitely not an expert. If we were to go this route, I would potentially look at having our lumber milled privately to cut down on building costs.

Our cabin area is about 30km into the woods with decent road access in the summer, and snowmobile I'm the winter.

The easier/faster but more expensive option would be to have one of those pre built sheds dropped on the spot. But not exactly the style we want.

Any advice?

(Picture of prefab option attached. Dimensions 12x28' around $17,000. Inside is unfinished)

[OlJarhead]

I've known lots of people that went the pre-built route but those shells are typically thin (2x4) and not usually top quality for the price.

While building alone is going to take longer you will build what you want, your way, etc but again, it takes long   Heck, I'm still finishing and adding etc after 15 years.

[nearlygel]

Hi Cory! My partner and I built our own cabin a few years ago, and it was quite the adventure. If you decide to build yourself, it could be a fun project, especially if you enjoy hands-on work. Private milling is a great idea to reduce costs. Just make sure to plan thoroughly and maybe get a few quotes from local milling services.