The tiny house movement is downsizing taken to the extreme. Posing particular challenges for designers and builders, not to mention those that live in them, tiny houses have made a big splash in recent years and encouraged some innovative use of minimal space and budgets.
Here you'll find the latest design ideas for your smaller than average home.
Your average family home isn't very easy for a disabled person to get around. With this in mind, Wheel Pad has designed an eponymous tiny house that provides a wheelchair-friendly bedroom and bathroom on wheels suitable for use as an annex or accessory dwelling unit.
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Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses recently completed a barn-style tiny house for a retiree who wanted a low-budget home to put on her land in Beulah Valley, Colorado. Clad in reclaimed materials and sporting a modest interior, the Bitterroot Valley tiny house runs off-the-grid with solar power.
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Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses recently completed its latest build, the unusually-named Ol' Berthoud Blue. The towable home features a relatively large bedroom and bathroom, in addition to a focus on being suitable for frequent traveling.
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Handcrafted Movement clearly put a lot of time and effort trying to give the Urban Craftsman the kind of high-end finish you don't typically see in a tiny house. Featuring a focus on high quality materials and craftsmanship, it's currently up for sale for US$72,000.
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The Intellectual Tiny Home is a 320 sq ft (29.7 sq m) one bedroom dwelling built from a 40 ft (12 m)-long recycled shipping container. It's being promoted for use as a full-time tiny house, guest house, or granny flat and will set you back US$62,000.
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Tiny Heirloom has shared another recently-completed tiny house with us. The Rocky Mountain Tiny Home serves as an off-grid vacation home for a family of four in rural Colorado. It features a home office that allows the owners to get some work done while away.
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The recently-completed Tiny Adventure Home from Tiny Heirloom features a real rock climbing wall on its exterior, allowing its owners to do a little climbing whenever the adventurous owners are parked up.
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Tiny House Scotland recently completed its first model, the NestHouse. Sporting a Scandinavian-style design and a focus on energy-efficiency, the movable – but non-towable – tiny home starts at £17,000 (US$21,500) for the smallest and most basic unfurnished model.
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2016 has been a big year for tiny houses, from small, affordable weekenders to larger, more expensive towable homes that offer nearly as much space as a small brick-and-mortar house. Read on for our pick of the most innovative, interesting, and attractive tiny houses we've seen this year.
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The flexibility and experimentation that typifies tiny houses often encourages people to commission a project that suits their exact needs. This was the case with the Vintage Glam Tiny House, which has a motorized platform that reveals a bed, storage space, and more, at the flick of a switch.
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