We love being in the middle of nowhere
We also love having running water and a well-designed, warm house
The Beginning
Like many founder stories, ours starts with a problem without a solution. Katrin and Gabriel wanted a holiday home …
Working from home, we felt that we needed an occasional escaping place for a change of environment. We started looking for one. After some weeks of searching for plots in the real estate portals, we realised that the ones with the X-Factor and an acceptable price were in the middle of nowhere and had no utility connections. As much as we would love to believe that we could handle traditional type of OFF-GRID living, having 2 little kids, lots of work and a busy social schedule, the rational answer was a definite “no”.
What happened then? We had recently just finished our own house project together with Margus and Maarja who owned an engineering-building company. Sharing our new ideas with them, it turned out that they had been thinking of something similar.
5 days later, we started mapping out our ideas and principles for our ideal off-grid house in the wilderness.
"Ideal" list of wants and needs
- Access to remote areas
- Little effort and quick results
- Sleek design
- Minimal maintenance need
- Energy efficiency
- Healthy living environment
- Minimal environmental impact
All of the above with MINIMAL COST
Solutions
- Design and process for minimal resource need
- Highest quality craftsmanship
- High quality materials
- Minimal construction waste
- Design for compact transportation
- Design for quick assembly
- Assembly with possible reassembly/recyclability
Achieved so far
Achieved so far
We keep on pushing the limits
We are innovative, open, flexible and full of ideas for further developments. We are proud of what we have achieved up to this point, but we continue to improve and push the boundaries.
Management team
Katrin Vares
CEO
ODYL embodies the perfect choice for those who seek comfort, style, sustainability and the X-factor in a house. My role is to ensure that every single team and process within our company is devoted to accomplishing our vision and to deliver our services up to the highest possible standards. We will never overpromise and always try to overdeliver.
Maarja Kibal
HEAD OF FINANCE
My role is to ensure that ODYL is financially and contractually sound, ordered, compliant and solid in Estonia and internationally. I bring to the table more than a decade of experience in the accounting and financial sector, where I have mostly worked for companies in the construction and production industries.
Margus Kibal
HEAD OF ENGINEERING
I’m a nationally multi-awarded engineer for construction of commercial and apartment buildings across Estonia.
ODYL is the state-of-the-art house I have always wanted to build, being able to finally be the head for all processes of development – innovation, architecture, production and building all together.
Gabriel Ceballos
HEAD OF SALES
My role is to expand the network of ODYL customers, partners and representatives in the EU and beyond. For this objective, I bring to the table my broad international experience, language and management skills, as well as my personable attitude. Our best publicity will be the positive word-of-mouth of our satisfied ODYL house owners.
Ahti Buk
HEAD OF INSTALLATION
I have 20+ years of building and production experience and my job is to ensure that the installation of the house is done with highest quality craftsmanship.