How cheap can we build a tiny house as an inexperienced couple? If we try, how much for a cheap parts package?
Going for the cheapest route still allows for salvaged windows, doors, and more, though not the finest prettiest of parts, but the functional and affordable versions, under $10,000 material pack.
A very good set of questions and answers... you decide.
Comment if you have ideas, too.
From a prospective student and chance at:
Hey Brad, okay, so in educating myself about tiny houses, but particularly high-quality, long-lasting, salvaged materials tiny houses of the sort you design and teach others to make, I have been poring through your posts and your YouTube (both channels, Tiny Texas Houses, and Brad Kittel), and learning anything and everything that I can, BEFORE I ever come and do the workshop/s, and before I come to spend the week with y'all before the workshop.
Cody Hahn
What I would like to ask is NOT specifics, as you have already told many people that it is just too hard to price things for without them being there and picking everything out, but what I would like to begin asking about is the GENERALITIES of prices for packages.
So I want to come about it from a different angle. Rather than asking, "How much does this cost?" or "How much do all these materials and materials cost?" I would like to ask, what can be done and built by a young couple doing the labor and time for $10,000? What can be done for $12,000? What can be done for $15,000?
I'm not talking about fanciful arched windows or old Catholic church custom glass windows. I'm not talking about all the most elaborate designs and features. Good, strong, durable, long-lasting, efficient, comfortable, healthy, tight, good storage, good work area (leather craft, until a separate studio/little workshop can be built to move all that stuff out of the living quarters to give a wife some sanity! Haha). Maybe something in the 400-450 square foot range.
Or are we thinking way, WAY too low in price, even with us doing the work, once we learn how?
Brad, this just seems like such a stupid series of questions for you, please forgive me, I am trying to learn, and I have really been trying to go through your educational material and all the ideas you have shown, FIRST, before I ever even asked. I just don't know the ins and outs of all this, and I don't know what I don't know.
I also know that this is likely one of those things you can begin to help a potential builder get a better idea of, price-wise, once they begin coming and learning and seeing what it's all about, but it's something I have been thinking about in the meantime.
I am looking forward to building some quality and functional (and trustworthy) bookshelves when I am there.
I want to, as you say, "salvage the best of the past", so that my books can last........haha.
My response to these very good questions.
The skill level of the people comes first in answering that question.
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