Tieton Cabin Company 2024

Our Cabins

Tieton Cabin Company designs and builds entirely prefabricated cabins sized to be trucked, barged, helicoptered, or craned into place and ready to use the same day with minimal site preparation. With every inch optimized for versatile functionality, Tieton Cabins are ready to become the guest accommodations at your camp destination, the flexible guest space/income property in your backyard, or your personal retreat in the wilderness. With cabins ready to ship in as little as two months from ordering don’t wait to enjoy your dream spot!

Our Story

Across 25 years of creative collaboration, our design has always been in conversation with our own need to connect with too often neglected parts of ourselves. All our years, projects, and learnings have led us to this moment and this concept: the cabin as the ultimate expression of meeting our basic needs simply, while focusing the design on fostering a quality of being that is so hard to come by in the rest of our overstuffed lives. The kind of being that can’t be manufactured. Perhaps, we thought, it can be designed for. From the seed of this idea we grew Tieton Cabin Company, to give you a head start on a place to just be.

Why CLT?

Making a cabin that feels like a cabin yet is a distinctly modern version of that idea while being resource prudent is the fundamental design challenge upon which we built this entire enterprise. We concluded that cross laminated timber (CLT) is the ideal structural system for helping us achieve these three must haves—cabin like, modern, and resource prudent.

Our panels are a layup of three to five layers of spruce, pine, and fir two-by-sixes laminated together in a giant press by Mercer Mass Timber. This pre-cut four panel CLT set allows us to assemble an entire cabin structure in six hours with zero cutting and zero field waste in our factory. The pre-sanded interior panel faces immediately become our primary interior wall, floor, and ceiling finished surfaces.

The resulting solid wood surface allows for an uninterrupted insulating blanket of Rockwool to wrap the exterior of the CLT structure. We can really geek out on how awesome this assembly is from durability, weatherproofing, and energy performance perspectives, but we’re going to leave it there for now. Come see us if you want a deeper dive, we love showing it off!

Systems, Fixtures + Craftsmanship

• All electric powered; off-grid compatibility possible

• Mass timber structural frame meets or exceeds most building code performance requirements for earthquake, high winds, heavy snow loads, and fire resistance

• Thermally broken aluminum windows and door systems maintain high integrity of building envelope

• Dedicated heat recovery ventilation (HRV) system for preconditioned, filtered, fresh air

• Ultra-quiet, high-performance heat pump heating/cooling all in one (no separate outdoor unit)

• Electronic wifi enabled locking system

• Smart thermostats for remote control/monitoring

• Heavy steel sub-structure designed to accommodate varying site, slope and soil conditions

• Design allows for relocation of cabin without disassembly

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Outside Features

1. Covered entry to bang off your boots

2. Rinse through grating to handle mud, water, sand, etc.

3. Screen to obscure sightlines to your gear and protect it from weather

4. Dark-sky friendly exterior lighting

5. Low maintenance, durable finishes that are enhanced with weather and age

6. Electronic operable skylight with rain sensor

Inside Features

1. Large window openings strategically placed to maximize views and light while maintaining privacy

2. Minimalist, all natural wood interior finished with non-toxic, plant-based hard wax oil (no drywall, no paint)

3. Soft, indirect lighting, including bedside reading lights

4. Remotely controlled window coverings, thermostat, locks, and lighting

5. Efficient storage

6. Kitchenette with upgrade to full appliance set available

7. Compact work area

8. Bathroom with shower

The Agate Pass

ready to go at $240,000

An open studio suite that includes these features:

• 282 square feet of usable interior space

• 96 square feet of covered porches

• Living area

• Workspace

• Private bathroom with walk-in shower

• Kitchenette with sink, under counter refrigerator, microwave

• Gear storage

The Chinook Pass

ready to go at $220,000

An open studio suite that includes these features:

• 216 square feet of usable interior space

• 96 square feet of covered porches

• Living area

• Private bathroom with walk-in shower

• Kitchenette with sink, under counter refrigerator, microwave

• Gear storage

The Olympic Peninsula

ready to go at $340,000

Designed with full time living amenities in mind, including:

• 444 square feet of usable interior space

• 96 square feet of covered deck

• Side entry

• Dedicated living area

• Private bathroom with walk-in shower

• U-shaped kitchen with full appliance suite and peninsula bar

• Large view windows

The Olympic Peninsula

The O-Spa

ready to go at $275,000

A luxe bathing suite with room for a lounge or gym space. Features include:

• 282 square feet of usable interior space

• 96 square feet of covered porches

• 2 person glass enclosed steam shower with 16sf operable skylight above

• Large vanity area

• Private toilet room with sink

• Extra closet and storage space with room for enclosed washer and dryer

*Example model shown with optional additional twin soaking tubs and woodstove

The Retreat Saunas

ready to go at $175-225,000

Sauna accommodates up to 12 friends:

• 168-282 square feet of usable interior space

• 96 square feet of covered porches

• Changing room

• Wood burning sauna stove

Alterations + Customizations

Available additional appliances

• Dishwasher

• Two burner induction cooktop

• Under cabinet drawer microwave or speed oven

• Larger refrigerator/freezer

• Sink/food waste disposal

• Laundry washer/dryer units

Available additional accessories:

• Queen bed with built in storage

• Outdoor shower (cold & HOT water of course!)

• Locking safety grating (bear proof your cabin!)

• Steel connector brackets to integrate with Renson or Hanso type patio covers

• Steel post foundation connection extensions for sloped sites

• Upper cabinets for kitchen area

Available additional equipment:

• Generator or battery connection and control readiness

• Solar panel connection and control readiness

• Waterless toilet

Order + Delivery

Since we purchase materials specific for YOUR cabin, we require an initial deposit upon ordering and progress payments:

• To secure a production slot: 10% deposit

• Pre- production: 40% additional payment (due 30 days before production)

• Mid production: 40% additional payment (due 30 days before completion)

• Final Payment: 10% upon completion (due prior to shipment)

A $5,000 delivery allowance is included in the base price of each cabin. This allowance should cover the trucking costs to ship a cabin to most locations in Washington State. More remote locales will require us to work together to figure out additional costs and logistics.

We have designed our cabins with some key structural anchor points that easily connect to a crane or industry standard house moving dollies. Give us a call and we can walk you through it, and help you find resources in your area.

Site Considerations

Planning/Zoning Permit

Most communities have regulations governing things like setbacks from property lines, height limits, lot coverage, etc. We can help you find this information.

Building Permit

Tieton Cabins are built to IBC (International Building Code) Standards to meet or exceed most jurisdictions’ building code requirements.

Our CLT and steel structural system is designed to meet seismic requirements and is adaptable to meet most soil, topography, or snow load conditions.

Washington State building and energy code requirements are among the most stringent. Tieton Cabins are universally pre-approved for all WA code requirements - Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California and more are to follow.

Foundation

Site specific foundation engineering is not included in the cabin price, but likely in the range of $2,000—$5,000, depending on your site.

The cabins generally require a very simple and cost effective set of four site built concrete pad footings, each ~4’ x 4’ x 12”

We can’t see the sparkle in your eyes right now, but we bet it’s there.

That’s the magic of cabins—just by reading or hearing that simple word, something lights up in us. In cabins, we connect with our loved ones, with nature, and with ourselves. Cabins hold our most enchanted memories.

They give us the opportunity to leave behind the hustle of our daily life and slip into ease. They invite us to dream of adventures to come.

This kind of being can’t be manufactured, but it can be designed for. From the seed of this idea we grew Tieton Cabin Company, to give you a head start on a lifetime of connection and simple being, whatever that means for you.

Jeb + Belinda Thornburg Tieton Cabin Company Founders