I bought this yurt used for less than the cost if I were to buy all the materials at the big box hardware store. It was listen on eBay, strange place to try to sell a yurt so I was the only person to bid on the auction. I had to take it apart and rebuild it as well as replace a lot of missing/broken boards. This one is 20ft, I feel like it could be build diy style, even if you purchased the skin, for a very reasonable price for the square footage. If you pay someone for a kit or to build it for you, definitely expensive.

Interesting. But you're right, smaller one shouldn't be so difficult and expensive to create.🤔 My poison is thinking all the time in big numbers, like a house instead of a tiny cottage, then the costs undercut my imagination and will completely.

You can get a big one for cheap from China. You'll want to waterproof it, since it's just canvas, but... It's cheap. Your husband knows how to get a hold of me if you want more info.

Here the covers are something plastic I guess, not canvas🤔 Or it looks like fabric of some sort, but is heavily covered with some rubber. What I saw was a yurt with isolation and outer and inner layer, I'm not sure canvas would survive the winter🤔