Oregon Cottage Co. This quaint little home is waiting for the person seeking a simpler way of life or is in need of additional space for an office, art studio, guestroom or personal retreat. This well crafted 8'x20', 130 sq ft (habital space) Bungalow is energy efficient and built with sensitivity toward the environment. It has a standard RV utility hook up or can be connected to public sewer and water. It includes a full kitchen, sleeping loft, shower and toilet all built on a 10,000lb GVWR dual axle flatbed trailer for portability. It is priced at $37,000 and has the following green features: Eco-Batt wall insulation (R-16.9 assembly) Landark Natural interior oil finish Locally milled cedar siding Reclaimed wood flooring and interior door SFI certified wood windows Energystar refrigerator/freezer At a starting price of around $22,000 we can also build a "shell-out"option of this Bungalow where we provide a watertight exterior and sound structural framing. "On the road to where your imagination may lead you."
Tumbleweed Trailers Now Available to Build your Tiny House on Acquiring and preparing a trailer for your future tiny house can be one of the most stressful parts of the construction process. For most people the trailer is actually the single most expensive item that you’ll buy for your tiny home. And rightly so, as it’s going to be the foundation of your house. To address this issue Tumbleweed Houses is now offering trailers specifically designed and built for tiny houses. There are three sizes you can pick from right now which are: Then you can also pick four different styles within each size: No PorchCorner Porch (Left)Corner Porch (Right)Full Porch Things to Look Out for when buying Used You can save a lot of money by acquiring a used trailer and putting lots of labor into it so it can be ready for up to 10,000 lbs of “house”. This means your axles have to be in good shape, they must be able to handle that weight and you’ll also want to check your: TiresSpringsFlashingTongue length If you want to get info and order one of these trailers click here.
Open Trail Homes Tumbleweed Trailer Made in the USA, Tumbleweed trailers create a perfect foundation for your home. Designed specifically to carry your most prized possession - your home. Safety Tumbleweed ensures your quality-built trailer comes standard with brakes, lights, underside flashing and special trailer radial tires. These tires are a significant upgrade from tires normally found on utility trailers and extremely important for your safety. The average steel-belted radial gets about 100,000 miles of wear, while the bias-ply tires generally only get about 30,000 miles. Our suspension package, with multiple 5,000 lb axles, comfortably carries the weight of you tiny home. Designed for a tiny home When it comes to attaching your house to the trailer, techniques have improved greatly over the years. Additionally the trailer is designed to allow more than 3.5" of extra headroom in the house interior, something you cannot achieve on any other regular trailer. Here's what you get: Get it financed!
Open Trail Homes Open Trail Homes, a new tiny house company has been launched in North Salt Lake, Utah. They currently offer four models from 128 to 320 square feet. All of the homes are built on wheels and the largest measures 12′ x 24′ – which would make it better suited for a semi-permanent installation since special move permits are typically required to move 12-foot wide trailers. All the others could be moved with a full size pickup truck. Three of their four models are designed with beds on the lower level and three have additional sleeping/storage space in lofts. I’m very impressed with the packages they’ve put together and suspect this company could become a leader in the tiny homes market. To get a look yourself visit the Open Trail Homes website and Follow them on Facebook. Photo credit to Open Trail Homes. Top: Blue Sky model, 165 square feet. Below: Blue Sky Floor Plan Below: Bunk House, 128 square foot model Below: Bunk House interior Below: Bunk House floor plan
What You Need To Know Before Purchasing A Trailer For Your Tiny House What You Need To Know Before Purchasing A Trailer For Your Tiny House Types of Trailers (Flat-Bed) When choosing a trailer to build your house upon, there are several considerations to be mindful of. Trailers usually include brake lights, a license plate, and a breaking mechanism. The hitch connection of the trailer attaches to the hitch ball on the rear bumper of your towing vehicle. Your towing vehicle should also have a maximum GWVR for towing. Tumbleweed has made it easy for you to find the right trailer, by designing… The Tumbleweed Trailer Learn more about what makes the Tumbleweed Trailer different than any other trailer Brevard Tiny House | Tiny Houses, Big Dreams! How to Floor and Frame a Tumbleweed Tiny House on a Trailer (video) In this video based post you’re going to learn the basics of how to floor and frame a Tumbleweed tiny house on a trailer. In this video they are building the Fencl tiny house using a 18′ trailer. The design shown here is 130 square feet without including the upstairs sleeping loft and the tiny front porch area. Designed by Jay Shafer, original designer at Tumbleweed Houses (today he’s at Four Lights). This video (below) is going to show you the basics of flooring and framing a tiny house on wheels. Photo Credit Tumbleweed Houses/YouTube The steps outlined below are assuming that you have already decided on a design (either your own or set of plans) and are therefore ready to buy a trailer. How to Floor and Frame a Tumbleweed Tiny House on a Trailer Step 1. Step 2. Step 3. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6. These step by step instructions were written with what I learned from Jay Shafer’s the Small House Book and by attending workshops. For a list of this years Tumbleweed workshops click here.
Micro Monolithic Domes Featured on Good Morning Texas Good Morning Texas featured David South and his Monolithic Dome Rental Units. These affordable rental units are being built all over the country to help meet the great need for affordable housing.” - Monolithic Domes on YouTube. via: Monolithic Domes on YouTube. Learn more on the Monolithic Domes website. Below are some screenshots from the video above. Trailer Update - Brakes and Bits - Living Big In A Tiny House | Living Big In A Tiny House We’re back at Monoway with another update on our Tiny House Trailer! In this video, Ian talks us through the Tiny House trailer brakes, tandem suspension system and a few other clever additions! With only a few more items to go, our trailer build will soon be complete and we’ll be getting it road registered. From there, we will be getting stuck into the build! Both Melissa and I are incredibly excited for the build to get underway. I'm a film-maker who is currently in the process of designing and building an off-the-grid Tiny House and filming the whole journey to help others who would like to do down the same path.
Humble Homes A Rustic Tiny House Made From Reclaimed Materials | Humble Homes Portland, Oregon is probably one of the most progressive cities with regard to the tiny house movement. Its home to Tiny House Hotel, great companies like PAD Tiny Houses, and also this eclectic tiny house that’s currently available for renting through AirBnB. The house looks to be about 12-by-18 foot, and whilst not stated on their AirBnB page, the usable square footage is probably in the range of 300 square feet when you include the loft. The house is a pet project of DIY enthusiasts, Jenny and Michael, who built the home from as many recycled and repurposed elements as possible. The exterior of the house is finished in a mixture of cedar shake shingles and feather edge siding. The interior of the tiny house has been finished with a modern-rustic feel. The second floor of the house contains the sleeping area, accessed by the living room staircase. For more tiny houses check out this boiler room conversion to a cozy tiny house by Christie Azevedo. Photos: AirBnB
Tiny House Trailer Build Update: Galvanizing - Living Big In A Tiny House | Living Big In A Tiny House Steel is used in the construction of our Tiny House trailer due to its inherent strength, however as a metal it is susceptible to rust when left unprotected in the elements. Naturally, as the trailer is the foundation of a Tiny House, it’s important that it doesn’t rust out form under you! Galvanizing is a process where a protective zinc coating is added to the steel to prevent rusting. Unfortunately, we were unable to accompany our Tiny House trailer to Perry Metal Protection in Hamilton (where they have the largest hot-dip tank in the country and the only one that is able to fit our trailer), but the good folks at Perry Metal Protection in Auckland gave us a great tour of their facility and showed us how everything works. To find out more about Galvanizing, visit Perry Metal Protection. For more information about Tiny House Trailers check out Monoway Trailers.