This $299K Prefab Cabin Could Be Coming to the Woods Near You

Canadian company CABN debuts its lineup of off-grid homes with a 752-square-foot plan that looks surprisingly spacious.

In Mallorytown, Ontario, is a new home that looks nothing like its neighbors. In fact, the modular cabin, a departure from the area’s stick-built gable residences with its boxy, lofted plan and shed-style roof, doesn’t look like many prefabs of its same size. But it does seem right at home in the woods, which is where Jackson Wyatt wants to build more of them.

"Because they are self-sustaining and don’t need to rely on city-based infrastructure, they can thrive in remote areas," says the founder and CEO of Canadian startup CABN.

The SON.DER show cabin in Mallorytown, where Wyatt is from, features a solar array he says makes the cabin net-positive. Smart-home tech tethered to an HVAC system monitors and reduces energy consumption, passing on savings to a potential owner in the form of lower operating costs.

Now, he wants to share those savings with buyers in Canada and the U.S. Wyatt plans to offer a 540-square-foot model, the MOR.II, at around $219,000 USD and other larger designs like the SON.DER with an end goal of offsetting housing shortages. His thinking goes that with the off-grid solar arrays, people wouldn’t be tethered to expensive real estate markets, and could "locate to those lesser known and less populated destinations," alleviating "the intense overpopulation in dense urban centers," he says.

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