California Round House

California Round House DBA California Yurts Inc. has been Building in the State since 1984. We are a full-service Construction Company, manufacturer, and installer of Custom Round Panelized sustainable homes, studios, and structures. Based in Ukiah, California is providing custom designed Frame Panel Code approved engineered Yurts.


Contact: Brian Manning at (707) 744-1611 or David Raitt at (707) 319-3267, to make an appointment to see our model homes and discuss your new California Round House project.


LIC. # 632687

David Raitt Phone:

(707) 319-3267

Brian Manning Phone:

(707) 744-1611

Email Address:

California round house

Home Plans

Vital Designs has licensed California Yurts exclusively to offer these designs under contract with our clients throughout California for code-approved Engineered homes systems that meet or exceed energy and urban wildfire requirements for sustainability and quality made from earth-friendly materials. Our most popular homes are displayed here. Getting the most functional space for your dollar is the main concern since the price is determined on a square Ft. basis.

Pricing Explained

  1. We manufacture the off-site components for $220 per square Ft. 
  2. Install foundation on flat sites through "dry in "of structure is estimated time and materials plus 20% - Starting At $150 per Ft.
  3. "Finish" is estimated Time and materials plus 20% - Starting At $150 per Ft.
  4. Total estimated estimated starting at $520 per square ft.
  5. Add delivery, crew travel and lodging over 45 minutes from Ukiah plans, permits and engineering estimated starting at $120 per ft.
  6. Estimated total for out of Ukiah jobs starting $640 per ft.
  7. Allow additional funds for in ground utilities, driveway, landscaping, required sprinkler system for undeveloped sites.
  8. Plan documents, permit fees, engineering, delivery, foundation installed thru the "Dry in" of our homes is estimated at an additional  $25 per Square Ft. 
  9. To Plumb and wire and finish our homes with our contractors working with you through the completion estimates at an additional $65 per Square Ft. for a total estimated installed home at $240 to $320 per square ft. The smaller home cost per square ft., can be higher per ft. and the larger home can cost less per Square Ft. $240 is for the average mid-size 1,000 square ft. home. We can customize any of these plans to meet your requirements.


Finished homes installed starting at $95,000 for mini nomad series to over $1,000,000 for a 4 bedroom Cluster design with garage at $540 per sq.ft.

Sloped, engineered sites with additional engineered foundation over 30%. Slope cab cost over $700 Per ft.

"Having a fine home can be a matter of status, of expense and extravagance, or it can be a mean, having the best house for you and your needs, a home that you design and build, a home that is fine because it is simply just right."


“There’s no particular beauty in a round building - if the proportions aren’t right. The aesthetics and proportion are important factors for me. Some builders can just throw up a round building and be happy with it, but I can’t. The proportion has to be just right."


“Imagine what would happen if three hundred million people were concerned with building a better world! This would be a social revolution, such as has never been conceived. The key difference would be people coming to the realization that it is their world: that it can be changed, that they can, should, and must have a role in redesigning the world.”


- Bill Coperthwaite Author, Yurt builder Imagineer, teacher, and my mentor
A Handmade Life, Yurt Foundation


David at Northern California treehouse workshop