BEEHIVES

Beehives in one 3D configurator, for woodworkers and DIY builders. Choose one of the four available designs and set the number of boxes for a stacked hive. The bill of materials and assembly steps follow your choices. The budget and PDF include the wood, hive frames, and supplies for your selected design. US estimates provide a starting point for items you have yet to price.

• 1 Single Hive -- The plan for one standalone hive. Choose a 10-frame or 8-frame Langstroth, a 5-frame nucleus hive, a Long Langstroth, a top-bar hive or a Warré. Set the number of boxes on a stacked hive and choose whether to include the stand. Build the boxes from the cut list, or buy ready-made ones and build only what goes around them.
• 2 Garden Case -- Your hive inside a classic double-walled garden case in the WBC style. Tapered outer lifts stack around the boxes and shed the rain, a gabled roof sits on top and a porch carries the entrance out through the wall. The number of lifts follows the number of boxes, and they come off for every inspection.
• 3 Hex Pavilion -- The hive as a design piece for the garden: a six-sided timber pavilion with removable tapered rings under a pointed roof, standing on its own legs. A closed tunnel takes the entrance through the wall, so the bees stay out of the gap around the boxes, and the case opens up for inspections. Its height follows the number of boxes.
• 4 Mini House -- A tiny house for your bees. Pick an A-frame or a little barn, with timber cladding, trim and a sheet-metal roof around the hive boxes, raised on legs. The roof opens for inspections, and the house is tall enough for the hive at its fullest in the season.
• 5 Coop + Hive (planned) -- A chicken coop and a beehive under one roof. The hive stands raised at one end, 30 to 60 cm (1 to 2 ft) off the ground, with its entrance facing away from the hens and outside the run, so the birds keep clear of the flight path. The coop side keeps the nest boxes, the roosts and the hardware cloth of our coops.
• 6 Hive Trailer (planned) -- A mini house on a road trailer that takes your hives to the next bloom. A short bumper pull chassis carries four to six hives strapped to its deck under a light timber shell, with the entrances open to the outside. Set the number of hives, close the entrances, hitch up and go.
• Step-by-step assembly for every model: each group of parts goes in, then the screws that fix it, with a cut list and a PDF to take outside.
• Stand the finished piece in your yard at full size in augmented reality, straight from your phone.
• View quantities in metric or imperial units. Choose suppliers for catalog items or enter your own prices. Empty ready-made boxes and their frames are listed separately.