As well as its high-end custom tiny houses and more affordable Signature Series, Tiny Heirloom also designs tiny houses for businesses. Its latest model, dubbed the Kentucky Donut Shop, fits both a home and a bakery business into a compact towable dwelling.
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There’s little doubt that the neatly packaged nature of a certain Swedish furniture-maker’s products are a big reason for its success, and lately we’re seeing how flatpack kits have a certain allure for those looking for alternative housing solutions. Here are five of our favorites.
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Utah’s Summit Park is home to an eye-catching new hillside abode consisting of stacked cubes that gently rotate as they head up toward the canopy. The recently completed Treehaus has a big focus on energy efficiency to soften the blow of the area's harsh winter climate.
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Judging by its attractive design and amazing views, we'd guess that the owners of the Off-Grid Guest House aren't lacking in visitors. Located in a rural area on California's coast, it juts out over the hillside, and as its name suggests, runs off-the-grid with solar power and its own well.
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The narrow dead-end streets that stop and start through the city blocks of Tokyo are a distinctive, if not entirely useful, part of the city landscape. Rather than closing itself off to these pint-sized cul-de-sacs, Pluszero’s recently completed House in Ouji opens itself right up.
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France's relatively strict towing laws mean tiny houses in the country must be much lighter than those in North America. Despite these restrictions, Baluchon managed to build a tiny house that serves as home to a family of three, and can even sleep double that, at a squeeze.
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Stefan Hitthaler recently renovated a mountain chalet in South Tyrol, Italy. Built in 1973, it was uninhabitable in winter due to poor insulation, but now keeps occupants comfortable year-round. He also made some minor stylistic changes to accentuate its out-of-this-world looks.
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Though the whole point of tiny houses is that everything is smaller, if there's one area that tends to be shrunk down a little too much with most models, it's the living room. The Clover tiny house, by Modern Tiny Living, bucks this trend with a larger than average living room.
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Robotics company Anki has unveiled Vector, an emotive little fella who’s basically a cross between a smart home assistant and a pet. New Atlas got a hands-on demo, and found Vector to be a versatile home robot that’s a real charmer and might actually chip in around the house.
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18th century residents of a small island in Denmark called Læsø didn't have enough resources to top their houses with thatched or wooden roofs. Being practical types, they used what they did have in abundance: seaweed.
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