Modular Cabin Construction: Framing

They are working fast. This will be the living room of our new modular cabin. The walls are framed and the outside sheathing is on.

This room will be the living room and kitchen.

This is standing in the living room and looking into the kitchen.

The walls are built on the ground, then propped up and squared as the cabin is put together.

This is standing in the hall. The first room is the laundry room. Next, the bath, then the closet and the bedroom.

The floor to the loft is over this area. You can see the bottom of the loft floor.

The hall will have the high ceiling. The bathroom, laundry room and closet will have a lower ceiling height.

See the additional supports on the hallway wall? That will support the loft.

This is the hall and loft plan.

This is the bedroom. It will have the lofted ceiling.

This is the finalized plan for the bedroom.

This is standing in the bedroom. The closet is over 10 feet long. We are going to have plenty of storage space.

The cabin is being built in a warehouse. Unlike the house we are living in now, it is not being rained on.

This is the end elevation. Both the bedroom and the living room have windows on the end wall.

The roof is really really solidly framed. That is a lot of roof trusses for a house only 52-feet long.

This is the plan for the roof and wall.

These plates hold all the trusses together. Truss connector plates or Gang-Nail plates are galvanized steel plates punched to create teeth on one side.

Gang-Nail plates were invented by John Calvin Jureit in 1955. They make building faster and easier and stronger. After Hurricane Andrews (1992), roofs with trusses built using Gang-Nail plates were way more likely to survive.

The cabin is from Westwood Cabins. You can see more photos and floor plans at www.westwoodcabins.com and www.facebook.com/westwoodcabins.