So, one of my Uncles is forever telling us that we should get a Yurt and live in the Yurt while we build our house. A part of me thinks that he just likes saying the word (c’mon admit it – it is a fun word to say) and I’ve generally been just discarding it out of hand. Now that we’re getting closer to the point where we actually need some sort of temporary shelter while we build our house, I’m beginning to wonder if maybe he’s right…

We’d been planning on buying a (hopefully used) trailer, living in it for whatever time we need to and then selling it. There’s a few downsides to this:

1. The trailers we’ve heard about are fairly expensive – granted we haven’t exhaustively researched it
2. The primary purpose of a trailer is to provide living space that can be easily moved from one place to another – we just need a shelter to sit in one place for a while
3. Trailers tend to be small – 2 adults, 2 children and 4 cats – you do the math

We’ve priced Yurts a little online and we can get a brand new 24′ diameter one for less than $8000 (Pacific Yurts Inc). That’s 450 square feet of living space plus, we can definitely re-purpose it for something else on the property if we decide to keep it. Yes, it’s still not all that big, but you’d need a 15′ x 30′ trailer to get to 450 sf and that just feels huge.

So, we’re still not sure what we’ll do but we’re definitely giving the yurt idea a close look and don’t anyone be too surprised if we end up in a round temporary shelter while we build our own “forever home”.