Budget for Retaining Walls on Hillsides

and number 12 on the list when considering building your dream cabin is if you're chasing a place that is in the woods with a killer View and the view is specifically something that we were chasing you're going to have to consider putting it on that Hillside it's so hard to find property that's sitting right on top of the mountain and you could put your cabin right on top that's a very expensive piece of property now with our situation we're not directly on the hillside we're probably around 200 yards off the top of this Hillside now what that means is that if you're going to save money on the property you're going to have to consider spending that money on the retaining wall retaining walls are crucial because if the soil gets compromised over time it'll break off and push everything into your building with a retaining wall like this they can range between 30 and $50,000 depending on your setup the crew that you hire and the materials that you use but at the end of the day with a retaining wall and a killer view you can't beat that it's just the coolest thing in the world and the way this retaining wall turned out it's it's almost like an artistic thing not to mention if your property is within some kind of neighborhood of other cabins it gives you somewhat of actually privacy from everybody else well there you have it folks those are 12 things I wish I knew before starting building our Dream cabin here these are lessons that I learned after the fact but we are happy with how things turned out well I hope you guys found these tips helpful that my mistakes that I made not catching these things ahead of time you could save yourself a lot of time and stress when building your own dream cabin make sure you tune in for the next episode as we start handling the inside of this cabin and in the meantime here's a video that I think you might enjoy [Music]