Baluchon

The Nano Suisse is about as small as a tiny house can get while still remaining a practical place to live. It measures just 11.5 ft in length but has a space-saving interior layout that sleeps two and even fits a home office.

Baluchon was commissioned to create a full-time home on wheels for a single person. The result is the Hytta, which features a traditional cottage-like exterior and a compact but comfortable-looking interior that can host overnight guests at a squeeze.

The Midgard is a tiny starter home with a clever interior design that maximizes the usefulness of its compact interior. Though it only has a length of 20 ft, it makes room for a guest sleeping area and also fits in home office space too.

One of the challenges of downsizing is that it's awkward to have friends over. Despite its compact size, Baluchon's Mirasol ensures its owner's social life won't suffer with a guest sleeping area and a kitchen that opens onto an outdoor bar.

Baluchon's Sherpa tiny house features a modern exterior design that riffs on a previous model by the firm. It sleeps two people, plus a couple of guests at a pinch, and incorporates a well thought-out space-saving interior.

This light-filled tiny house offers an impressive amount of flexibility in a length of just 20 ft. It makes space for a home office and the owner's crafting hobby, and will eventually serve as a full-time home too.

Baluchon likes to experiment with different layouts in an attempt to squeeze as much living space as possible out of its tiny houses. Its latest model is arranged so that the living room is placed upstairs and the bedroom is downstairs.

This latest model by French firm Baluchon is very small, even by tiny house standards – measuring just 4.5 m in length. Featuring Japanese-inspired styling, its diminutive size required some clever space-saving design.

It's a challenge to fit a viable house into a length of just 6 m, but with its Golden Hour, Baluchon has managed it while also finding space to add a few home comforts, including a custom kitchen and a loft bedroom with enough headroom to stand up.

The Eucalyptus forgoes the loft bedrooms we've come to expect from a compact French tiny house and is instead arranged on one level. This improves accessibility, but also means that designer Baluchon had to get creative with the layout.

Baluchon's latest tiny house is a departure from the French firm's usual pint-sized dwellings. Named the Gaïa Tiny House, it measures 36 sq m and that allows for a roomy interior layout, with enough space for a small family to live in comfort.

Over the years, tiny houses have been used for everything from a wedding chapel to a children's playroom. The Browny, by Baluchon, is another example of their versatility and squeezes in a home office, an area for exercising, and a guest bedroom.