The Caretaker’s Cabin
The Caretaker’s Cabin is the model I am having built to use as a model to show on my property in Marlin, Wa. Please review my previous posts under The Caretaker’s Cabin posts. I am still searching for my caretaker. . Each cabin is custom built on a steel trailer on wheels. The interior is pine and the exterior is cedar siding. If you want to travel a lot, choosing a cabin that is 8.6 wide is perfect, because it will not need any special permit to travel down the road. The cabin is 8′.6 X 24′ and starts at $42,000.
Standard Base Prices
Includes the following:
Custom Built Steel Trailer
Metal Roof ( Your Choice Of Color )
8” Cedar lap siding ( Siding Options )
T&G 3/4 Sub floor
7/16 OSB sheet vapor wrap
2 X 6 walls 16” 0/C
2 X 6 floor joist16” O/C
One 32 ” Steel door
Laminate Flooring
Linoleum Flooring in bathroom
Pine Interior on walls and ceiling
Pine trim
Ceiling fan and light kit
Toilet
32” Shower
20 Gallon hot water heater
Stainless steel kitchen sink
Kitchen base cabinets
Rustic shelves above kitchen sinks
Base board heat or wall mounted heat
2 Burner built in electric or propane cook top
Under the counter frig
50 amp electrical panel
Porch Light
Light and fan in bathroom
Sconce lighting in loft
25 Foot RV Cord
R21 insulation in the walls, ceiling and flooring
Various Windows Are Included In The Base Price
Additional Upgrade Options
Radiant Floor Heat / $1500.00
EPA Certified Wood or Pellet Stove/From $1500.00 to $ 1800.00 : Includes Slate or Stone
Dickinson’s Propane Marine Heater: Installation and inverter $ 1100.00
Propane OR Natural Gas Log Fireplace With TV Mantle 30” or 36”-$2200.00 to $2400.00
Washer & Dryer / $1250.00 ( $ 200.00 extra to convert gas dryer to propane)
Washer Dryer In One $1800.00 ( Includes Installation )
Propane on demand hot water heater / $950.00
10′ Cubic Refrigerator $599.00
17′ Cubic Refrigerator $799.00
20” 4 Gas Burner Stove And Oven $800.00
24” 4 Gas Burner Stove And Oven $950.00
30″ 4 Gas Burner Stove And Oven $1050.00
Dishwasher $ 600.00
AC / $550.00
Sliding Barn Door $ 600.00
French Doors 6′ $ 800.00
Sliding Patio Door 6′ $ 500.00
Nature’s Head Compost Toilet $960.00
Two 5 Gallon Propane Tanks with gauge and regulator $ 250.00 ( propane not included )
Utility Shed for propane tanks $ 800.00
Stairs with storage $ 1000.00
Built In Desk $ 250.00
Breaks and lights on trailer $350.00
Additional Upgrade Options: Add To Your Quote Notes
- Decks
- Lofts
- One Inch Foam Insulation
- Wainscotting
- Granite Counter Tops
- WainscottingBlue Pine Accents
Heating Options
Custom Upgrades
10 Foot Wide : Add $ 2000.00
Add $2000.00 if you want to extend your cabin to 10′. This additional feet will open up a whole new world of possibilities for space. The price would include the option of having a bath/shower combination instead of just a shower.
Request A Quote
janet@tinyportablecedarcabins.com
509 345 2013
509 770 1694
I would love to be prt of your tiny home project. I’ll tell you a little bit about myself. I’m 52 years old. Retired master carpenter. I recently moved back to Idaho from the Seattle area to get peace and quiet. I wish this opportunity Had opened up sooner. I love gardening grew up on a farm in Idaho that’s why I moved back. I long to have a tiny home. I’ve been dreaming of One for years.I’ve even been saving a door that came out of my father’s cabin To use for my front door. I love all kinds of animals. I have one cat. But also love dogs . I would be honored to be considered for this position. Thank you Lloyd. -:)
Lloyd,
You did not leave your contact info.
Janet
Lovely little cabin. Thank you for creating a video to view! So glad there is an option to go larger. Closets? Place to wash clothes where are they stored? Bathroom. That looks like a 32 inch shower. To me a cozy cabin screams for a tub! At least a good shower! Heat source? A cabin must have some sort of hearth however small. An area for seating/and eating? I realize it is up to the owner of each cabin to instill a personal stamp. An issue I notice in all tiny homes. Yikes! Ladders! There must be room for a small staircase with storagege. In the instance that tiny home communities will hopefully gain more momentum, I am wondering about flooring and walls using cork. For "softness." We may need to live close to our neighbors and may even want to but do we need to hear them all of the time?(And vice-versa.)I say this in the interest of upping the the chances for success with tiny homes. Many of us have lived in small apartments and the like. Even trailer courts where there can be a sense of community. Noise. So much metal in parks that it is often far too easy to hear what tv shows your neighbors may be watching or what they may be arguing about. No fun. I am wondering if you have ever built a cabin using a lot of cork and if so was it too very costly? Does it help with insulation.? There are more varieties of cork than I ever knew. It may be very aesthetically pleasing. Ellen McCann ever curious about tiny homes and I think I relly want one. Am well over 50yo. Not a fan of ladders!
We have not used cork. Good insulation, R21 with a pine interior. We have stairs that are like ladders, you might be happier with no lofts.
We also make stairs with storage.
We can put a tub/shower combination staring at 10′ wide.
I have been dreaming of owning a tiny home. I don’t own property to place it on though. Is it possible to rent space on someone’s property and to hook up to their electricity? I would like to go with a composting toilet and my own portable gravity feed water tank. But how would I handle the gray water? Am I forced to live in an RV park?
I also would like to avoid stairs and would like an area to sit around a table with friends. Is this possible? Could there be room for a small recliner?
I envision myself pulling my tiny home to the mountains or beach in the summer. Do campgrounds in the NW allow this?
Thank you!
Hello, my name is Morgan. I plan to save for a year before I buy a tiny home, but as soon as I saw your site and Dave’s work, I knew this was the company I wanted to buy from.
In the meantime, I’m working on slogging my way through my city’s ordinance code and finding land to put my future tiny cabin on. I have a few questions related to that. First, if I had a foundation already built on my plot of land, could I get the cabin lowered onto it without wheels so it would be considered a permanent structure instead of an independent mobile home? This could be very helpful for dealing with the city. Also, what is the ceiling height of the cabin, and do you know if the loft covers more than 50% of the ceiling space of the cabin?
I’d really appreciate this information so I can know where I’m at with my city’s ordinance code and get this figured out before next summer. And I look forward to ordering a tiny cabin from you!
Hello, my name is Ryan. I was wondering if you guys do an off the grid option for solar and install yourselves or must I do that myself.
Thank you!
Ryan,
Dave can do off the grid and solar.
Thanks,
Janet