FirstDay Cottage
The FirstDay Cottage company in New Hampshire offers a house kit which they claim a couple, and a handful of friends, can build in approximately fifteen weekends and for under $45,000. These house kits can be customized for each customer and can be built with almost no carpentry experience. What I found very refreshing about FirstDay is that they insist that their kits are so simple to put together, that they encourage all their customers to contact them frequently to get advice and support throughout the project. They even help to get the owner/builder financing.
While these houses are little larger than the average tiny house, the smallest is under 1,000 square feet. The smallest of the plans is the Basic, which is 16 feet by 30 feet or 960 square feet and costs about $26,900 for the kit.
The FirstDay Kit Includes:
- Instructions and plans
- Posts and beams
- Sheathing and decking
- 2″ High-R Foam Insulation
- Roofing and siding
- Windows
- Interior and exterior doors
- Nails
- Building wrap
- Interior partitions
- Kitchen cabinets
I actually found the FirstDay plans through this couple, who are living the simple life in upstate New York with their young son. They built their own FirstDay as a spec house and then built a tiny cabin in the woods from the scraps left over. The entire project cost them about $900.
By Christina Nellemann for the (Tiny House Blog)
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At last a tiny house that I could imagine a family in. Thanks for the heads up…
This is great. I’ll have to check them out and see if they ship to the west coast. This could be a great alternative for my husband and I. I love the low cost and the interior looks beautiful and spacious.
thanks for the info-
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These look great. I really recommend going with an open ceiling floor plan in a small house, especially if it is going to be all one open area. We did the tall ceiling in my office, but not in the house and although the office is smaller, it feels bigger with the open ceiling.