Micro-House

Minimaliste has previously impressed us with its line of models that can withstand its country's harshest weather, and now the firm has completed its first home designed for family life. The Charme serves as full-time home to a family of four.

Build Tiny recently completed a new home that gets its name from combining the names of the owner's two grandmothers. Family is a strong theme with the Daisy Vera Tiny House and the off-grid model also integrates an heirloom stained glass window.

Optinid has completed another of its tiny houses that sports a sunroof-style sliding roof. The Tiny d'Alexane serves as a vacation home and has no kitchen, but has a relatively spacious living room and a separate toilet and bathroom.

In Tenta has launched a prefabricated tiny house that can accommodate a family of six. With most tiny homes being designed for a couple or a maximum of four guests, it's great to see a clever design that can comfortably house six people.

You could be forgiven for assuming that the Casa Ojalá tiny house concept we covered last year was too ambitious to be realized, but a prototype is indeed being built and readied for production. Pre-orders are now open for the flexible tiny house.

Despite France's reputation for culinary excellence, many of the French tiny houses we cover have very basic kitchens. Though lacking compared to its North American counterparts, the kitchen in Baluchon's Téméraire tiny house is an improvement.

We've often wondered just how small you can really go when designing a tiny living space and the Solo 01 might be the answer. The prototype project is a rickshaw-based micro-house that measures just 6 x 6 ft.

A challenge with tiny houses is that there's often nowhere for guests to stay and the situation is even trickier in France, where they're usually smaller than in the US. The Mogote sleeps two in its bedroom but makes room for guests with a sofa bed.

Originally designed by French architect Charlotte Perriand in the 1960s, Coudamy Architectures sought to preserve the retro interior design, while enhancing the 19-sq-m (205-sq-ft) apartment with some fresh space-saving upgrades.

Build Tiny managed to squeeze two storage-integrated staircases into the Home Haven Tiny House's 8-m (26-ft)-long frame. The tiny house was delivered as a turnkey build ready to move in for roughly NZD 132,000 (around US$85,000).

The Innisfree Anarres runs from a standard RV-style hookup but has solar panels on its roof to reduce its grid-based electricity usage. Teacup Tiny Homes also sought to provide efficient heating by installing a solar air heater on its exterior wall.

Raising a family can be challenging enough in a large home, let alone a tiny house. Therefore, when commissioned to build a new model for a couple with two young kids, Build Tiny designed the Tiny Tāwharau around the needs of daily family life.