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Spacious tiny house is designed for aging in comfort

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Dragon Tiny Homes' latest model is a spacious tiny house that is designed to allow its owner to age comfortably
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Dragon Tiny Homes' latest model is a spacious tiny house that is designed to allow its owner to age comfortably
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The tiny house is based on a triple-axle trailer and has a length of 32 ft (9.7 m)
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The main entrance opens onto the living room, which is compact and contains some storage, plus some space for a TV and sofa
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The kitchen includes a breakfast bar seating area for two
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The kitchen includes a farmhouse-style sink, oven with four-burner propane-powered stove, and a microwave
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The utility room/bathroom includes a lot of storage space
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The utility room/bathroom has a flushing toilet, shower, and a vanity sink
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The utility room/bathroom opens onto the downstairs bedroom, which looks quite snug but has ample headroom to stand upright and sports its own direct entrance to the outside
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A storage-integrated staircase leads up to the tiny house's loft
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The loft space will mostly be used for storage
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We typically associate Dragon Tiny Homes with very small and affordable tiny houses like the Element. But for its latest model, the firm has produced its largest towable home to date, which has been specifically designed to allow its owner to age comfortably and safely in place.

The unnamed tiny house is based on a triple-axle trailer and has a length of 32 ft (9.75 m). It's finished in blue and white engineered wood and has two separate entrances. It gets power from a standard RV-style grid-based hookup.

The home's main entrance opens onto the living room, which is quite compact and has space for a small sofa, with a little storage space and a place for a TV. The kitchen is adjacent. This is significantly larger and has a nice high ceiling, with an oven with four-burner propane-powered stove, dishwasher, a large fridge/freezer, and a drawer microwave – which is exactly what you might think, a microwave that's designed to installed within cabinetry and opened like a drawer. There's also a breakfast bar, countertops, and a farmhouse-style sink, as well as quite a lot of cabinetry.

From the kitchen, double barn-style doors slide open to provide a wide entrance into the utility room/bathroom. This contains a stacked washer/dryer that runs on propane (another unusual choice), and two large pantries. The bathroom proper consists of a shower and toilet, plus a vanity sink.

The main entrance opens onto the living room, which is compact and contains some storage, plus some space for a TV and sofa
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Over on the opposite side to the living room is the bedroom. This is accessed from the utility room/bathroom and looks relatively small, though it does have ample headroom to stand upright thanks to its position downstairs. It contains a double bed, and has its own direct entrance to the outside, allowing the owner to easily let her dogs out.

From the bedroom, a storage-integrated staircase provides access to the loft. Obviously, a loft isn't ideal if you're aiming to maximize accessibility as someone ages, but the stairs have wider and shallower steps than usual, in a bid to make climbing them easier. Additionally, the loft itself will be used mostly for storage and perhaps the occasional visitor, rather than as a main bedroom.

We've no word on the price of this one.

Source: Dragon Tiny Homes

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7 comments
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Stairs and crawl spaces are not the friends of aging.
SquareStem
What's with tiny houses all the time? They're OK but it's a niche market.
KaiserPingo
Yes, who actually uses all these Tiny Houses. But this is actually one I could find myself living in. Except the counterdesk and the stove looks ugly-cheap American like (lacks refined Nordic Style) and the house itself looks like BORING from the outside. Not flat roof of any kind in Nordic climate, ever!!! Stairs needs a hand rail all the way down on the wall side, to be "old-friendly" and easy to see non-slip strips on the front edge of every step. And I don't get why that tiny build out area in the end of the kitchen hasn't been made with angled walls, to add more space to sit on the inside.
michael_dowling
Good thing the bathroom is on the main level with the bedroom,as the elderly often have to get up several times a night to use the facilities. I am not a kid anymore myself,and this is would be a must have feature if I was looking for a tiny home.
Fairly Reasoner
Terminal aging once the stairs have their way. Swing and a miss.
veryken
The bright blue color reveals their design savvy.
fredricwilliams
The loft will be used mostly for storage? Why have many windows in a storage area? Storage might make more sense if located under the house -- like in a long-distance bus.