FirstDay Cottage company Information

FirstDay Cottage was founded over twenty years ago in the early 1990s, by MIT-trained architectural designer, David Howard, who has always been keenly interested in do-it-yourself housing. In the 1970's, David and his wife, Pam, built themselves their first home which measured 11' x 24' and was one and a half stories. David's early work involved designing and constructing timber frames for residential homes. Many of these frames were erected for do-it-yourself builders, who would finish the home after the frame was erected. Although the do-it-yourself timber frames were a success, they weren't quite the economical 100% owner built homes David had envisioned. The FirstDay Cottage design was born out of the idea of timber framing, but was redesigned for the owner-builder to not require a crane or other specialized tools and equipment. After a few different designs were tried, the first real FirstDay Cottage was built in 1995 in nearby Alstead, New Hampshire - a 1 story 16' x 30' built over a daylight basement. Since then, FirstDay Cottage has expanded to include the Single-Story T, Saltbox, Cape and garage Designs. We have now helped our customers build over 250 houses in more than 30 states from New Hampshire, Florida, Texas and even Alaska. At FirstDay, we hope to add to these numbers as we continue to offer an affordable and viable product that enables our customers to realize their dream of building themselves a home. FirstDay Cottage is now a very small family-owned and operated company with a very unusual and very personal way of delivering our product. We keep things simple and small at FirstDay in order to offer our product to our customers at a low cost and to help ensure that every one of our customers is successful in completing their home.