24x36 Primitive Cabin Construction- Costs?

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What are you planning to use for siding or roofing material? Metal siding and roofing would probably be your cheapest option

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Cheap is good, but don't want it ripped apart by severe thunderstorms peeling shite off every year. I am not too familiar with the metal product, just see alot of it peeled off in storm videos. But I'm not necessarily against it.

Is it true a reflective metal siding/roof that is painted a dark color on the inside will make a cooler building?

Shiny on the outside to reflect light/heat, but dark inside to absorb?

OP, you own any land with trees?

This little guest house I am building is a bit bigger then what you want and it has everything including ac/heat. 95% of the lumber, I had sawed up myself from trees off my place. Got around 15K in it. One thing about that, one has to have time on their hands.

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Got a cabin on a couple dozen acres that is exactly this size, minus the porch. I have power and electricity, ran me right around 40k turnkey. You can probably knock off around 6k for those amenities. For reference, I did everything but the electrical and final plumbing myself. I have drywall on the ceiling and bathroom walls, but v joint pine everywhere else. I went vinyl on the exterior, knowing I'd likely upgrade to hardie when its life was over. Tiled the bathroom, shower, and kitchen.

My dad was a GC, I was 10 years into working for him when I did this. He actually helped me do some of the roof framing, as conventionally framing a roof with 2x12s is not 1 man work. Also I wouldn't go under a 4:12 roof pitch.

Look into shipping container's to build with. If I would build a cabin deep in the woods, that would be my go to. There are tons of plans out there using them for this. Way faster and stronger.

This sounds good too but how much does it cost to buy, transport, and set in place?

Check craigslist in your area. They go anywhere from 2K to as much as 4K. Good thing about them, you can seal them up real good to keep rats and bugs out.

This is a popular topic, and I don’t think there’s ever been a great middle ground solution ive seen that makes sense.

If you just want something cheap with no plans to resale, I’d just consider a used trailer personally.

Or, build it made decent enough to appreciate potentially and sell someday. You can do so pole barn based properties and self contract that can be pretty affordable.

I don’t know much about the shipping container and other ideas but anytime someone brings those up someone else comes around with a pretty big negative.

Biggest shortfall on shipping containers in my opine, they're skinny af. If you want drywall and any insulation on them, you're knocking them down from 8 foot wide to 7'8" or under. My shower is 7'8, made it team sized for "checking for ticks"

But people have brought up a great point on resale. I have 0 intentions of ever unloading my land, but I did float the idea of getting a loan with it as collateral a half decade back. Appraiser was being sketch on finding comparables, so I know what they're saying is absolutely something to be considered.