I never planned to build a cabin. First, I wanted to rent one, then I wanted to buy one.
Hi <<First Name>>,
My coworking cabin was designed and build last year. I slept and worked there for 12 days in total when I visited my family in Slovakia.
I never planned to build a cabin.
First, I wanted to rent one, then I wanted to buy one.
Here is written a whole process from the initial idea, countless of iterations until the final cabin.
But the story doesn’t stop here...
I played with a couple of ideas on how to build more of these cabins on scale. My underestimation of the complexity of such a project combined with failing to find the right people to develop it resulted that I gave up with this plan.
💡 Then I started to explore some other ideas about this topic over the last two months.
During my research I identified a couple of problems with the prefab houses that are already on the market:
I find it extremely difficult to evaluate how professional each manufacturer is
Many of them are just portfolio projects of architects to get media attention
Very few manufacturers were able to ship the house to my location and if they could, the total price inflated significantly
Site analysis, permits, installation, utility hookups - all these things are not core services for the cabin builders
The total price of the project was always much higher than the initial estimate
So I'm exploring some ideas around these problems. If you have to build a prefab house/cabin or considering it, let me know.
