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10 A-Frame Kit Homes You Can Buy Online
Affordable and Stylish! These homes are delivered ready to build! In the early part of the 19th century, kit homes were very popular. They were advertised in newspapers and magazines by companies such as Sears and Aladdin Homes. If you’d like to learn more about the history of Kit Homes, check out THIS post. Kit homes are once again gaining popularity for many reasons, affordability, reduced construction time and great designs are a few of them. Here are 10 A-Frame kit homes you can buy online: Backcountry Hut Company A Kit House for the back country or back yard! “We specialize in compact modernist recreational structures, crafted to rigorous standards,…
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New Floors in the A-Frame Cabin
This past weekend we started our first project at the cabin. Seeing as everything else rests on the floors it made sense to start with our cabin flooring. We spent a lot of time looking at different options before finally deciding on luxury vinyl plank (LVP) flooring. Although we love the look and feel of real hardwood it wasn’t the right choice for this project. First, we have plenty of real wood around the A-Frame. More importantly, we need floors that will hold up to anything we throw at them. The 4 Pines Cabin is five minutes away from some of the best skiing in California as well as close…
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In Love with Kit Houses
The fascinating history of Kit Houses in the United States It is hard to imagine the time before the internet, but before we had the world at our fingertips, people would pour over catalogs. Most famously the Sears and Roebuck catalogs. Some of you may even remember looking through the coveted Christmas catalog and circling all the toys you wanted! Who knew you could kit houses through the mail too! Dating back as far as the Victorian era, future homeowners could choose the house they wanted straight from a catalog. A kit was sent containing all of the pre-cut wood and components of the home. The 4 Pines cabin is…
