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New Builder: Yogi’s Fine Woodworks & Tiny Home Designs


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Today I want to introduce you to Justin Pepin, the owner of Yogi’s Fine Woodworks & Tiny Home Designs — a new handcrafted tiny house building company.

I’m a budding tiny builder with 20 years of high end finish carpentry, furniture making, home building, and timber framing experience, on top of 2 bachelors of fine arts in sculpture and furniture design.

And boy can you tell! Pepin has been invited to show off his 1/6 scale models of his tiny house designs at a booth at the Midwest Outdoor Expo at the end of the month. He is waiting for an interested buyer to build his first full-scale design.

New Builder: Yogi’s Fine Woodworks & Tiny Home Designs

About the house below: “This is a 1/6 scale model of a tiny timber frame I’ve been working on. The first floor is 18′ x 9′, the second 24′ x 12′. Two squares on two squares. It’s designed using sacred geometry similar to the methods used to create the great cathedrals of Europe, to allow as much light inside as possible. The cupola is mean to rest atop the roof deck during transport and jacked up and across the copper roof into place. Imagine stained glass everywhere and an ornate wrought iron handrail/baluster system enclosing the glass roof deck. It includes a wet bath with fold-down bench when used as a sauna/steam room. 9′ live edge walnut countertop with ample storage below. I kept an open floor plan to allow for antiques and a pull-out couch. The stairs double as a door for privacy between levels. There will be a deck at both ends that fold down.

Wow, I love those windows!

Such a fun new design! Can’t wait to see one in person.

Now there’s a business sign!

Wow! Looks like a giant wave!

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Natalie C. McKee

Natalie C. McKee is a contributor for Tiny House Talk and the Tiny House Newsletter. She's a wife, and mama of three little kids. She and her family are homesteaders with sheep, goats, chickens, ducks and quail on their happy little acre.
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  • Marsha Cowan
    March 26, 2017, 11:49 am

    Wow! Beautiful asymetry and curves. Beautiful craftsmanship. Can’t wait to see these in real size.

    • Natalie C. McKee
      March 27, 2017, 8:03 am

      I know! I want one 🙂

  • Marsha Cowan
    March 26, 2017, 12:05 pm

    Hi Alex, the last post about the tiny house seninars did not have a comments section, so I came back here to comment. An event like a tiny house convention or seminar is great income for the cities in which they are held, but why not spread the wealth? Why not have some of these events in smaller towns like mine that are only an hour or so away from the larger towns, but have much rich history, arts, antiques, and other things to offer visitors who come to attend the events or just to see the houses. These smaller towns could really benefit from the added income of visitors. Right here in Globe, we have at least four rv courts that I know of, and a huge one at the cassino on the rez, and non hookup accomodations at the fair grounds for overflow. My rv court is getting ready to start building an additional 28 site park just across the road that should be finished sometime in October. There are numerous places that an event could be held, and people here in AZ are used to travelling an hour or so to get anyhwere. I’m just saying. It’s just a thought.

    • Natalie C. McKee
      March 27, 2017, 8:02 am

      Hi Marsha — Great ideas! I’m afraid we don’t have any control over locations though 🙁 These aren’t run by us, but other tiny house enthusiasts. Feel free to drop them a line and mention your town and others like it — I agree, spread the wealth 🙂

  • Sparrow
    March 26, 2017, 2:30 pm

    Just wanted to add – on the cupola one, I’d lose the porch and use the space for a better bathroom and storage.

  • Elle
    March 26, 2017, 2:49 pm

    Beautifully crafted. Like the manner in which he designed the back wall storage with the bedroom wrapping over the top. Nice

    • Natalie C. McKee
      March 27, 2017, 7:58 am

      Yes that was very clever!

  • Sarah
    March 26, 2017, 4:51 pm

    Wow, wow, wow! This is so fun, so fanciful and interesting! Is there access to the way top with the round window? I think I know a lot of people (including me!) who would love even the model as a dollhouse. Great job!! Can’t wait to see more.

    • Natalie C. McKee
      March 27, 2017, 7:58 am

      Good question! I think so? But I’m not 100% sure.

  • ZACHARY E MOHRMANN
    March 26, 2017, 9:33 pm

    Great Bird houses, but I would think hard to build as a regular structure to live in….!

  • Eric
    March 27, 2017, 2:23 am

    Really? You’d prefer a dry bath? How bizarre!

  • Theresa
    July 8, 2017, 3:19 pm

    I love what I see but I wouldn’t be living outside the house. I will reserve my decision until I can see what it will look like inside the house.

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