Interviews with Designers & Builders

One reason I chose to document this cabin-building process is that I didn't know where to start when I first envisioned the project. I wanted to leave a trail of breadcrumbs (and unvarnished missteps and goofy plan-changes) to make it a little easier next time I or someone else did this.

Hey Future-Me: leave stock tips in the comments eh?

Another reason was to keep myself honest. I believe in reasonable, documented, and repeatable processes, and wanted to hold myself to that approach to this project. Easy enough to go in and start making decisions without a plan or budget - nobody would ever know. But as I've said before and will say again

free cross-stitch pattern, this is now technically a crafts blog.

You can either let the ignorance line-item sit there, hidden and waiting to bite you in the ass with huge extra costs, or you can acknowledge your ignorance and work to minimize it. One of the ways to reduce the size of the cost of your ignorance is due diligence - which just means research.

So now it's time to research the designers and builders.

In my last post about builders, I listed a few likely candidates for the questionable honor of building the Minimum Cabin. I have now started my research into them, which includes reading everything on their websites, looking for reviews of their work, and calling them up to talk.

I'm specifically looking for designs which are prefabricated off-site, so this narrows things down a bit. I like these sources for reviews and comments.

https://www.prefabreview.com/blog/prefab-and-modular-home-builder-company-reviews

https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers

I've compiled the list and now it's time to talk to some of these designers/builders. First up, in our next post: Unity Homes.