Amazon Is Selling a Tiny Cabin for $19K
8th July 2019
Reminds me of the assemble-it-yourself houses that Sears used to sell way back when.
The latest cabin to catch our eye is the Lillevilla Allwood Cabin Kit Getaway, a 292-square-foot retreat priced at $18,800.
Which is about what my parents paid for their 1200 sqft three bedroom in Back Home, Indiana. But the dollar was worth more then (by quite a bit).
The cabin is modest in size, featuring a downstairs with three rooms and a lofted sleeping area upstairs. The Amazon description reports that the Getaway can function as a summer house, home office, or stand-alone retail building. The kit takes two adults approximately two to three days to construct using step-by-step directions that come with the kit.
Or village cottage on a British nobleman’s estate, which fits this description very closely.
What goes around, comes around.
July 8th, 2019 at 12:59
My niece and her family live in a “Sears” house. They were pretty well designed, except for the incredibly steep stairs to the second floor. But those were built back in the day when the government was still urn by the public and mostly stayed out of people’s business. Somehow, someway, the government will find a way to regulate or tax the new “Amazon” house out of existence.
Brings to mind the hundreds of FEMA trailers that were built for Hurricane Katrina (and Rita) that were suddenly deemed to not meet government standards. Yeah, it’s so much better to live in a tent or under a tarp.
Worked on a military base closure in California. They have a law that says any buildings that you might tear down or abandon have to be evaluated as potential housing for the homeless. The state came in and determined that the base housing, built hurriedly in WWII, did not meet the minimum standards for the homeless. “Sorry, you’ll have to keep your cardboard boxes until we abandon something with better plumbing.”
July 8th, 2019 at 15:37
I suspect that local zoning regulations will put the kibosh on the Amazon houses — that’e why they’re touting then for vacation houses, out in rural areas where there aren’t any zoning boards.