Tiny Houses

20-ft-long tiny house designed with comfort in mind

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We've no word on the exact price of the Golden Hour, but Baluchon's tiny houses usually start at €80,000 (roughly US$87,000)
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We've no word on the exact price of the Golden Hour, but Baluchon's tiny houses usually start at €80,000 (roughly US$87,000)
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The Golden Hour is based on a double-axle trailer and is finished in red cedar
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The Golden Hour has a length of 6 m (almost 20 ft)
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Visitors enter into the Golden Hour's living room, which includes a sofa, some storage space, and a small table
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The Golden Hour's living room includes a small wood-burning stove, which should be sufficient to heat the entire home
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The Golden Hour's interior is illuminated with natural light thanks to its generous glazing
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The Golden Hour's kitchen includes a drop-down dining table for two
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The Golden Hour's bedroom is reached by a floating staircase that's integrated into the kitchen cabinetry
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The Golden Hour's kitchen includes an oven, a two-burner propane-powered stove, and quite a lot of cabinetry
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The Golden Hour includes multiple storage nooks placed around the home
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The Golden Hour's bedroom includes a double bed and is topped by a sloping wooden ceiling
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The Golden Hour's bedroom includes a lowered platform, so that the owner can get dressed standing upright
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The Golden Hour has a small and basic bathroom with shower and toilet
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It's always a challenge to fit a viable house into a length of just 6 m (almost 20 ft). However, with its recently completed Golden Hour, Baluchon has managed to do so, while also finding space to add a few home comforts too, including a custom-sized kitchen tailored to its owner's needs and a loft bedroom that offers enough headroom to stand upright.

The Golden Hour is based on a double-axle trailer and finished in red cedar, with a mixture of cotton, linen and hemp insulation for the floors, walls and ceiling. It gets power from a standard RV-style hookup.

Visitors enter the tiny house into the living room, which looks well-lit thanks to its generous glazing. There's a sofa in there and some operable windows, plus some storage space on the floor, a coffee table, and a very small wood-burning stove.

The owner asked Baluchon to focus on the kitchen, so this is fairly spacious – at least by French tiny house standards. The cabinet height has been lowered to suit the owner's measurements, and the space contains an oven and a propane-powered two-burner stove, plus a sink, fridge, and lots of storage space. There's also a drop-down breakfast bar with stool seating for two. The kitchen connects to the bathroom, which is rather small and basic, with a toilet, shower, and some storage space, but no sink.

The Golden Hour's bedroom is reached by a floating staircase that's integrated into the kitchen cabinetry
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The Golden Hour's bedroom is a loft-style area and is accessed by a floating staircase that's integrated into the kitchen cabinetry. Once upstairs, visitors find a lowered platform, as seen in some of Build Tiny's models, which allows the owner to stand upright and get dressed instead of awkwardly moving around on hands and knees. The actual sleeping space is adjacent and contains a bed, plus some drawers, and is topped by a sloping ceiling.

The Golden Hour has been delivered to its owner in Rhône-Alpes, southwest France, and serves as a main residence. We've no word on its exact price, but Baluchon's tiny houses usually start at €80,000 (roughly US$87,000).

Source: Baluchon

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3 comments
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"20-ft-long tiny house designed with comfort in mind". I seem to have a very different definition of comfort.
CarolynFarstrider
Ok, so this tiny house is cute, as are many of them. But what is the imperative to build a very small and cramped place in which to live, when you have a very large space in which to put it?
Michael Alfred Heath
Where is the front door on this thing ?