This is nice looking, could also be used as the perfect hunting cabin/duck blind.

Nice looking and great craftmanship, but I do have concerns. - How road worthy is this really? - Is the loft window big enough to use as a fire escape?

Love this, but where's the jake?

It's a nice little unit, but I fail to see how it's news-worthy. People have been making home made trailers for decades.

Being heavy and with apparently poor aerodynamics it is going to cost a lot of fuel to move.

So the math is $24,000 for ~100ft/sq is $240 per square foot and using reclaimed material. Its (probably) overweight for the trailer with the aero dynamics of a rough brick. This is a piece of art NOT a practical travel trailer.

I can't imagine this construction holding up in a tornado situation. To be honest, it is rather ugly, and heavy. I would box in the porch with glass panels to create further living space, although this would of course add to the weight of the whole thing. I am surprised it cost so much to build. A few coats of paint might improve the appearance.

You can buy a decent mobile home, 800 sq feet, with garage, in Florida for less than $8000. I bought my travel trailer with all amenities, sleeps 6, fridge, freezer, shower, hot water, furnace etc, weighs 4000 pounds and is streamlined for travel cost me $1000.00. It even has new tires.
I built an 18x32 cottage on my property fully insulated on a concrete pad with power and water for $20,000 which included the cost of getting the power and the well drilled. OK its not a six ton beast on wheels.
Point is that building this tiny house with reclaimed materials is not newsworthy. What would make more sense is telling us about building with shipping containers or design of a nice affordable 800 square foot home for a family with modern materials that is off-grid. There are many other designs out there for emergency shelters, homeless shelters, cottages etc that are newsworthy.

This house is outrageous. Way too heavy, not constructed for travel (will fall apart when subjected to twists, bounces, lurches of normal travel), costs is way above any economic savings. It takes a special heavy duty truck to move. Gas Mileage probably 5-8 MPG. Travel speed probably nill. Hours of labor to design and build - 2700 !!!!!! -. Anyone can buy a used travel trailer for 1/10 this cost, fix it to look rustic and have twice the travel home with 200 hours of labor in it not 2700. I am talking approximate to same size and styling.

More proof that nowadays bad + ugly = news. This explains the media's fixation with Donald Trump, et al.