
Trio 57
A Compact House with Efficient Design
Trio 57 offers a cozy and practical living solution. It’s perfect for individuals or couples who value a smaller space that feels like home.




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An efficient, compact home
The TRIO 57 makes efficient use of its compact footprint. Smart layouts ensure your home feels practical for everyday needs while the small size minimizes energy needs.
Welcoming spaces
Open living areas bring people together for everyday moments. Despite its size, your home has space for spending time with friends and family.
A house full of light
Large windows on the facades of the tall A-frame house fill your home with natural light and create a sense of a larger space.
A home you can truly make your own
Every Avrame house will be customized to fit your needs and style. Room layout, materials, and finishes will all be fully customized to create the perfect home for your family.




Expand your A-frame
Avrame houses can be connected to create a larger double-A-frame home. You can connect any two models to get the space your family needs. The smaller A-frame is often used as a guest house, kids’ space, or home office.
Save even €200,000+ with an Avrame house
Avrame houses are often far cheaper to build than traditional houses. But you can also save on energy costs and maintenance. In total, you may save even €200,000+ compared to a traditional house. As TRIO 57 is a smaller house, the savings are smaller as well. However, the same principles apply to it. You don’t pay for extra material, construction (or rather, assembly) is far faster and easier, heating and cooling takes less energy, and so on.
Building Your Trio 57
Avrame houses are designed to simplify the building process. Engineered pre-cut kits and detailed plans make construction more efficient while reducing the unexpected issues common in traditional custom house projects.
Choose how much you want delivered ready for assembly
- Strength graded timber as structural truss (45x245mm)
- Building accessories (custom hardware, screws, nuts and bolts)
- Battens for roof structure (30x45mm)
- Pressure treated sill plate
- Breathable underlay for roofing TYVEK solid
- Mesh against rodents
- Strength graded timber for gable walls (45x245mm)
- Battens for wall structure (45x45mm)
- Floor structure for insulation (45x95mm)
- GL ceiling beams (45x220mm)
- OSB3 (12mm, 22mm)
- Vapour barrier
- Dormer
- Certificate of original Avrame
- uPVC windows and terrace doors (tempered glass)
- Wooden exterior door
- Roofing material Ruukki Classic C with fixings
- Horizontal roofing battens (32x100mm)
- Painted exterior cladding
- Soffit and Gable Boards
- Interior wall structure
- Interior cladding
- MDF interior Doors
- Staircase with handrail
Structural Kit
- Strength graded timber as structural truss (45x245mm)
- Building accessories (custom hardware, screws, nuts and bolts)
- Battens for roof structure (30x45mm)
- Pressure treated sill plate
- Breathable underlay for roofing TYVEK solid
- Mesh against rodents
- Strength graded timber for gable walls (45x245mm)
- Battens for wall structure (45x45mm)
- Floor structure for insulation (45x95mm)
- GL ceiling beams (45x220mm)
- OSB3 (12mm, 22mm)
- Vapour barrier
- Dormer
- Certificate of original Avrame
Exterior Kit
- uPVC windows and terrace doors (tempered glass)
- Wooden exterior door
- Roofing material Ruukki Classic C with fixings
- Horizontal roofing battens (32x100mm)
- Painted exterior cladding
- Soffit and Gable Boards
Interior Kit
- Interior wall structure
- Interior cladding
- MDF interior Doors
- Staircase with handrail
1. Get Your House Drawings
Obtain the cost of your project after having an appointment with us and purchasing plans.
2. Customize the floorplan and materials
Need more bedrooms or a larger living room? Want different materials or finishes? We’ll create your dream home together.
3. Get your house delivered ready for assembly
We’ll get all the pieces ready and ship them straight to your property. You don’t pay for extra material or need to worry about having forgotten something that breaks your budget later. The materials are the highest quality anywhere in the world and come with warranties of up to 50 years.
4. See your house come together
Because your house is delivered in ready pieces, assembly is far easier and faster than usual. At best, the entire assembly is completed in only 3-6 weeks.
5. Enjoy a house that saves money
Your house should work for you, rather than force you to work for it. Avrame houses are not only cheaper to build than typical houses, but also incredibly energy efficient and require minimal maintenance. Compared to many other houses, the total savings can be €200,000+.
1. Get Your House Drawings
Obtain the cost of your project after having an appointment with us and purchasing plans.
2. Customize the floorplan and materials
Need more bedrooms or a larger living room? Want different materials or finishes? We’ll create your dream home together.
3. Get your house delivered ready for assembly
We’ll get all the pieces ready and ship them straight to your property. You don’t pay for extra material or need to worry about having forgotten something that breaks your budget later. The materials are the highest quality anywhere in the world and come with warranties of up to 50 years.
4. See your house come together
Because your house is delivered in ready pieces, assembly is far easier and faster than usual. At best, the entire assembly is completed in only 3-6 weeks.
5. Enjoy a house that saves money
Your house should work for you, rather than force you to work for it. Avrame houses are not only cheaper to build than typical houses, but also incredibly energy efficient and require minimal maintenance. Compared to many other houses, the total savings can be €200,000+.
FREE: The Smart Path To A Custom Home - In Your Country
A practical guide to planning, permitting, and building your own custom home
Much of the process remains the same no matter where you live. But some parts are different depending on where you’re building. So, you get country-specific guidelines for many countries in the guide.Some of the things you’ll learn:
- How you can make building a custom home easier
- What common issues often cause delays and cost overruns — and how you can avoid them
- How to navigate permits and approvals in your country
- Where you can save money — and what you shouldn’t compromise on
- What the building process actually looks like from foundation to finished house
Frequently asked questions
This is by far the most asked question ever.
How much does the house cost?
What is the total cost figure for Trio 100 or another model?
There really can’t be one answer for the total cost of a finished building.
In our Budgeting Guide, we dig deep into this topic and we provide a reliable method and a tool to answer this question for your specific project.
In short, there several factors that play on the price and different factors to consider.
For example:
- we ship worldwide and shipping costs depend on location
- extent and cost of groundworks depend on the soil on your location
- the type of foundation you can use depends on the conditions of your ground
- the price depends on the level of customization
- the price depends on your preferences on interior decoration and the materials you choose
- ...
As a rule of thumb, the final cost of the houses we have shipped so far been between €1500 to €1800 per square meter ($150 to $180 per square feet).
So a 100 square meter house or (1000 square foot) should be budgeted at about €150,000 to $180,000. That’s roughly $163,000 to $196,000.
Again, our Budgeting Guide contains more precise answers to this question.
We can deliver practically anywhere - Australia, Canada, The US, and elsewhere.
A-frames are flat back, so they are very compact and convenient to transport. In the past, we have delivered houses to South Korea and Azores Islands.
We have a partner for manufacturing in the US. All other parts of the globe receive their kit from our factory here in Estonia, we can deliver to almost any location.
Transportation cost is not included in our kit prices.
We cannot say this exactly as it varies case by case.
There are some import taxes which are not expensive.
For more accurate information, I recommend to check out our local partner’s website www.avrameusa.com for your taxation queries.
They know better about such details.
We made a video about budgeting a while back to give you some pointers on budgeting for a prefab A-frame house. It shows you the tools you need to create your own budget for your build.
Today, we discontinued that budget template as we have built a more comprehensive and helpful resource: the Budgeting Guide.
Yes, we can alter floor plans. The only load-bearing element in an A-frame house is the A-frame itself. It doesn't need additional support or load-bearing interior walls, so we can play around with the floor plans quite a bit.
The living room part can be opened up to create a double-height ceiling. We can add terraces, dormers, balconies, skylights, mirror floor plans, and other design elements.
Yes, we can change a lot.
Here are a few ideas of what you can customize
- the floor-plan layout (we can move interior walls as you like)
- add dormers
- add terraces
- add skylights
- add balconies
- make the houses longer
- join multiple units together (with galleries between them)
- leave the ceiling open (for double height living rooms)
...pretty much endless variations to play with.
The exact sum of shipping depends on the house size and distance from the factory to your site.
Generally, shipping is up to 10% of the kit cost.
Shipping smaller kits might be more expensive as they do not fill one entire truck and we end up transporting air (expensive and useless exercise).
For more accurate shipping costs feel free to reach out to our team.
Production time is 8...12 weeks (depending on the season).
Shipping in Europe takes 2...6 days.
Shipping to North and South Americas takes about 4...6 weeks.
Shipping to Asia takes up to 8 weeks.
A-Frame is a regular timber frame home, so all heating systems are possible. It really depends on the fuel source you have available.
n our YouTube channel, we have a video covering this topic
You can install any kind of ventilation system.
We prefer to use natural ventilation (skylights, window ventilation strips, etc.).
In some building regulation, mechanic ventilation is mandatory therefore it is recommended that you check which is the ventilation option you should go for (we cover this in the 100 Questions Guide).
We get a lot of comments asking for more walk-through videos on our finished houses. We understand that photos don't always help put the actual size into perspective, so we are definitely planning to roll out video walk-throughs of each model soon.
Right now we have walk-through videos for four models:
More videos are uploaded each month. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss them.
No, we don’t.
Avrame houses are meant to be assembled with local labor.
Our drawing sets are so precise that local carpenters can do the job without mistakes, usually at a lower cost too.
A-frame is a very simple construction.
It is more like putting together an IKEA furniture than the traditional house building process.
You will get very detailed drawings with step by step instructions to help you on your every step of the build.
The most economical (and practical) way to go is the stripe foundation (up to 60% cheaper than the slab and has the same kind of durability and functionality).
You can also do the post foundation.
Please keep in mind that the type of foundation you can actually use depends on the condition of the ground on your location.
Yes, a solution with full basement is easily doable.
A-frames need just 3 support points. They can be supported by a metal beam in the middle and by the stone part on the sides.
We made a video that explains this in detail.
You can find it here
In short, several US states have very strict building regulations that require the use of stronger wood material + steel hardware.
These components increase the overall cost of materials in the kit.
Also, still due to the more strict regulations, the step between the frames of the structure is about half compared to the EU version... which results in about twice the material for the framing of the structure. 1250mm for the EU version compared to 600 mm for The US version.
We sell worldwide and each Country has different regulations for technical installations, therefore we focus on supplying the structural part of the house and all the special parts have to be sourced locally.
Here is a list of the parts you will have to source locally:
- heating system
- electric system
- ventilation system
- plumbing
- kitchen furniture
- bathroomware
- tiles and tiling
- interior finishes
- furniture
- ...
We have a video that covers this topic more in detail:
Kit Home Building: THIS you have to source locally
IMPORTANT: this list is not complete nor exhaustive. For more information on what you shall take into account, you should consult our Self-building Guides.
Wooden structures can last for centuries. We have a wooden church here in Estonia on one of our islands standing there for more than 370 years.
If the foundation is solid and raised (min. 30 cm) from ground and roof covering is tight, your home will outlast your grandchildren.
The wooden parts we sell have 2 years warranty.
Ruukki classic C has 50 years of technical warranty and 20 years of aesthetic warranty.
The Velux skylights have 10 years warranty.
The builder has to give its own final warranty for the final build and product (5-10 years usually).
We use only high-quality materials (see this video).
Maintenance is very low.
You have to service the gable walls. Depending on the conditions repainting the cladding once in every 5-10 years.
That is pretty much all you have to do from outside.
From inside it is like any other house - the maintenance depends on your choice of materials and usage.
If maintained properly then the house will last for many generations.
Compared to a traditional timber frame buildings a-frames are very well insulated.
The total energy performance of the house depends on the insulation material and heating system.
Avrame houses are designed to perform well in the Nordic climate and it can withstand very harsh winters.
Snow is not an issue: it will simply fall off the roof because of its steep angle.
The houses can also do very well in hot temperatures (rock wool works in both conditions – keeps the house warm in winter and cold in summer).
The insulation material has to be sourced locally since there is no point of transporting it (high volume and no cost saving).
The thickness of insulation material in the different model is:
- SOLO series: 150 mm / 6 inches
- DUO series: 250 mm / 10 inches
- TRIO series: 300 mm / 12 inches
Yes, you can.
Indrek (Avrame CEO) has been living off the grid for already four years and he obviously has a job.
To live off-grid successfully you need to prioritize your energy needs and cut everything superfluous.
Living off-grid will make your life easier and will less financial burdens. It will grant you more time to enjoy the things you really like to do.
Click here to see the gallery.
You should start with our initial views and plans and they can be found here - avrame.com/drawings
We don’t offer financing through Avrame and would suggest contacting your local loan provider.
Our payment terms are straight forward. 50% pre-payment when signing a contract and the other 50% on the 6th week of production. Production takes 8-12 weeks. Later deposit might cause delay in delivery.
Yes you can do it and here you can find one helpful video - Before you go off-grid...
Shipping is done either with containers or with truck transportation.
No, it’s not possible with larger houses, but we do have DIY drawings for our smallest models, which are Solo+ -
https://shop.avrame.com/collections/diy-tinyhouse-soloplus
Yes they can. The connection of the two models will be thought through in the drawings phase. One example can be found here -
avrame.com/series/double-a-frame
Insulation materials are not part of the kit and have to be sourced locally because they are bulky and will take a lot of room in cargo. We recommend using rockwool / mineral wool.
The smaller the difference between inside and outside temperature, the better insulation works.
Here you can find a video about this topic -
Due to the low center of mass a-frames are great option for seismic areas. Our houses have been built in Japan, South Korea and California which are prone for earthquakes.
A video about this topic -
It is mostly used to create the main entrance of the house or to enlarge the bathroom.

Here you can see a list of our representatives - https://avrame.com/representatives
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