Credits
From Jeff Waldman
After California’s wildfires vaporized our previous cabin we haven’t quite been ready to invest much emotion or money into rebuilding. Still, we were yearning to build something with friends and needed a modicum of shelter, so we worked up a little A-frame hut that would by hyper efficient with our time and materials.
It’s just under 120 square feet (the permit limit in most area) and used only $2500 in materials. (in 2022 lumber prices.) None of the roof panels needed to be cut and most of the plywood are full sheets. Ours is half suspended in a couple of redwoods with Garnier Limbs-- treehouse hardware.
The siding is Canadian hemlock and the floors and ceiling are cheap plywood. The queen-size bed frame is pine boards and 2x4s, and the bedside tables are built from the scrap furring and siding. We built the whole thing in two weekends and I have to say it felt very rewarding to stand in a structure with our friends, under a roof that didn’t exist just that morning. Like old times.