Take A Look Inside This Tiny 5-Room House Which Sells On Amazon For $33,000
Looking for a way to build a tiny house but find yourself short on time? Don’t want to invest too much of your savings into a living space? Out of the gazillion products available on Amazon, there are real houses to buy, too. For those who want to downsize to save money or those who are simply into smaller spaces, this easily buildable house might be the answer to your prayers. However, some reviewers on Amazon did spot a few disadvantages as well, so scroll down below to find out more.
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“If you are searching for a cabin with a functional floor plan, take a look at Allwood Avalon,” the product description reads. “540-square-foot combined ground floor area with a 218-square-foot sleeping loft (whereof 53 SQF with min. 48″ headroom) allows many room allocation options,” the company writes. “This cabin can be a lake house, guest house, beach or garden cottage, or even a stand-alone retail building.” In addition to this, according to the company, all of the materials are made from high-quality Nordic spruce wood.
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While you might imagine a truck towing a new house to your preferred area, the assembling of it is a bit IKEA-like. The tiny cabin comes in the form of a kit, which includes all the needed materials to build the structure. The seller estimates that with two adults working on the house, its assembling should take about one week.
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The Allwood Avalon Cabin stands at $33,000 – which is a lot more compared to other company’s houses. However, the price is higher because of the bigger space that it offers. When constructing, you can choose from two possible floorplans for the cabin, with either five or three rooms. In addition to this, there’s also a 218-square-foot second story to use as an additional space.
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“Avalon is very energy efficient and well suited even for colder climates,” the company writes. However… the keen eye of people on the internet proves otherwise. “Only access to the bathroom is from the patio. It’s a glorified outhouse. Definitely NOT suited for cold climates!” one person on Amazon writes. And there it is—when you look at the plan, you can clearly see that the door to the bathroom is outside.
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Another tiny inconvenience is that while the company does write that only “minimal tools are needed”, they also recommend a forklift or a small crane to use for the installation of the tiny house. All in all, it seems like these are the only disadvantages to this cabin. What do you think? Would you buy such a house?
Here’s what reviewers on Amazon said
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Lumber Advisors say: Nordic Spruce is rated slightly resistant to non-resistant to ROT. It's most commonly used for paper manufacturing.
It's a low quality prefab house with a really bad layout. What's so special about it?
I wonder the same thing. The floor plan is ridiculous. What is that space behind a TV set used for? I would move the bedroom where there is kitchen and bathroom now, and use all that space for dinette - kitchen - bathroom; the bathroom accessible either from the kitchen or from the bedroom, perhaps, there would be a space for a small closet too. it's a wild guess since BP did not provided the dimensions.
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Those are classic and pretty well made too and I love how a lot of them are doing just perfectly today . There's this Sears house somewhere in Savannah where the people who installed it put up the windows upside down. For some unknown reason I love looking at that house.
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I like how they say it takes one week to assemble. It takes me one week to put together an Ikea desk, lol. "Minimal tools," which include a forklift, needed.
The forklift is to be assembled and part of the kit.
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A huge part of the small home movement is being more efficient. This type of home has no insulation in it. Basically the outside surface is the same piece of lumber on the inside surface. This works great in very temperate places like coastal Hawaii, where the high temp and low temps don't change a lot. in places with drastic seasonal changes you have a home with no insulation. It will be unbearable hot in summer an unbearably cold in winter. Any potential savings will be lost in the first year trying to keep it habitable. These building kits were originally meant to be used as sheds not homes.
Love it, but what about a water hookup, electricity, etc? I wouldn't know where to put it to be able to access utilities. Are there 'parks' or communities that you can plunk one of these down into?
It's just a prefab house. They are really common and usually better quality. The way it works is that you order it, then have a construction company build a foundation including access to plumbing and electricity on your plot of land. Then they drop the house kit off and you get the construction company to put the kit together. It's just a slightly faster, cheaper way to build a house. It neither has to be tiny nor made of wood, those prefabs come in all sizes and shapes.
Load More Replies... Add the cost of LAND and you're home! Here are my mods: kitchen/bath at the end of the living room, enclose the entry porch and make the downstairs two bedrooms.
The layout is absolutely terrible but one of the biggest issues is how badly the bathroom is planned. A door to the bathroom outside its literally an outhouse. They should have turned the bathroom around so the door is in the bedroom and the shower/toilet is one the other wall. Also, the crawl space what is that use for you probably couldn't even stand up in their Sears and Montgomery Ward's did better.
In the 70s/80s, I grew up in a nice house built in 1880. It was too basic of a house to be Victorian; I'd call it an early version of the Craftsman style. I looked up how much it might cost to build a house with the same methods and specs from the 1880s. Not including the lot, and even without the garage (which was built in the 20s) or wiring for telecom, plumbing and electricity, it'd be over a million dollars for a lousy six-ish-room house! Two bedrooms with closets, living room, dining room, foyer, finished basement, kitchen with walk-in pantry and bath (tub and shower, sink, toilet, built-in vanity), front porch, back porch. Plaster walls with baseboards and moulding, oak parquet floors, real tile in the kitchen and bath, brick construction with a wood facade, that's not cheap. No one makes homes in the old ways anymore. That cabin would make me nervous. I'm sure it's better quality than what I imagine, but worse than what I'd want to feel OK there.
How do you get into the bathroom? From outside? Yeah...me at 3 AM stumbling out the front door, around to the patio...nope.
I don't get the joke. I also couldn't be bothered with googling how much a foot is ;p Is it tiny house or what? Looks perfect for a holiday house near a lake for me.
The day I see the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Clintons, Al Gore living in one of these closet spaces then I'll buy one and live in it.
Cute, but where's the full kit package that includes foundation, roofing, electrical, plumbing, insulation etc...?
That's never included in those kits. They just drop it off, you better have the foundation ready by the.
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Lumber Advisors say: Nordic Spruce is rated slightly resistant to non-resistant to ROT. It's most commonly used for paper manufacturing.
It's a low quality prefab house with a really bad layout. What's so special about it?
I wonder the same thing. The floor plan is ridiculous. What is that space behind a TV set used for? I would move the bedroom where there is kitchen and bathroom now, and use all that space for dinette - kitchen - bathroom; the bathroom accessible either from the kitchen or from the bedroom, perhaps, there would be a space for a small closet too. it's a wild guess since BP did not provided the dimensions.
Load More Replies... Those are classic and pretty well made too and I love how a lot of them are doing just perfectly today . There's this Sears house somewhere in Savannah where the people who installed it put up the windows upside down. For some unknown reason I love looking at that house.
Load More Replies... I like how they say it takes one week to assemble. It takes me one week to put together an Ikea desk, lol. "Minimal tools," which include a forklift, needed.
The forklift is to be assembled and part of the kit.
Load More Replies... A huge part of the small home movement is being more efficient. This type of home has no insulation in it. Basically the outside surface is the same piece of lumber on the inside surface. This works great in very temperate places like coastal Hawaii, where the high temp and low temps don't change a lot. in places with drastic seasonal changes you have a home with no insulation. It will be unbearable hot in summer an unbearably cold in winter. Any potential savings will be lost in the first year trying to keep it habitable. These building kits were originally meant to be used as sheds not homes.
Love it, but what about a water hookup, electricity, etc? I wouldn't know where to put it to be able to access utilities. Are there 'parks' or communities that you can plunk one of these down into?
It's just a prefab house. They are really common and usually better quality. The way it works is that you order it, then have a construction company build a foundation including access to plumbing and electricity on your plot of land. Then they drop the house kit off and you get the construction company to put the kit together. It's just a slightly faster, cheaper way to build a house. It neither has to be tiny nor made of wood, those prefabs come in all sizes and shapes.
Load More Replies... Add the cost of LAND and you're home! Here are my mods: kitchen/bath at the end of the living room, enclose the entry porch and make the downstairs two bedrooms.
The layout is absolutely terrible but one of the biggest issues is how badly the bathroom is planned. A door to the bathroom outside its literally an outhouse. They should have turned the bathroom around so the door is in the bedroom and the shower/toilet is one the other wall. Also, the crawl space what is that use for you probably couldn't even stand up in their Sears and Montgomery Ward's did better.
In the 70s/80s, I grew up in a nice house built in 1880. It was too basic of a house to be Victorian; I'd call it an early version of the Craftsman style. I looked up how much it might cost to build a house with the same methods and specs from the 1880s. Not including the lot, and even without the garage (which was built in the 20s) or wiring for telecom, plumbing and electricity, it'd be over a million dollars for a lousy six-ish-room house! Two bedrooms with closets, living room, dining room, foyer, finished basement, kitchen with walk-in pantry and bath (tub and shower, sink, toilet, built-in vanity), front porch, back porch. Plaster walls with baseboards and moulding, oak parquet floors, real tile in the kitchen and bath, brick construction with a wood facade, that's not cheap. No one makes homes in the old ways anymore. That cabin would make me nervous. I'm sure it's better quality than what I imagine, but worse than what I'd want to feel OK there.
How do you get into the bathroom? From outside? Yeah...me at 3 AM stumbling out the front door, around to the patio...nope.
I don't get the joke. I also couldn't be bothered with googling how much a foot is ;p Is it tiny house or what? Looks perfect for a holiday house near a lake for me.
The day I see the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, the Clintons, Al Gore living in one of these closet spaces then I'll buy one and live in it.
Cute, but where's the full kit package that includes foundation, roofing, electrical, plumbing, insulation etc...?
That's never included in those kits. They just drop it off, you better have the foundation ready by the.
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