Tru Form Tiny has delivered its latest Cascade Max to Colorado, and it is a beautiful example of what happens when a tiny home is designed around one person’s very specific vision. Built for homeowner Noelle’s Southwestern-inspired take on a modern mountain retreat, this 38-foot park model on wheels packs 399 square feet of single-level living beneath 11-foot vaulted ceilings — plus two bonus lofts up top.
From the Pewter Green exterior to the walnut details handcrafted throughout the interior, the Cascade Max blends the comfort and function of a full-size home with the craftsmanship that defines high-end tiny living. Let’s take a closer look.
Some adventure vans are built for a postcard. The Kōri was built for a Tuesday-night practice three hours from home. Created by Yama Vans in Calgary, this Mercedes-Benz Sprinter conversion belongs to a family in Penticton, British Columbia who spend their winters chasing puck drops around the province — and it is purpose-built to make those early rink mornings and tournament-weekend road trips dramatically easier.
Kōri is one example of Yama’s Teton 01N, the company’s most popular floorplan. It pairs a compact 144-inch wheelbase with a clever two-zone sleeping layout, a chest-height fridge, and an 85-cubic-foot rear gear garage that — in this family’s case — swallows hockey sticks, helmets, and bags of pads without taking over the living space. It’s a four-season machine engineered for Canadian winters, and it shows.
The Kōri, a Teton 01N build by Yama Vans, sits on an all-wheel-drive Sprinter chassis built for four-season travel. Images courtesy of Yama Vans.
Most tiny houses ask you to imagine living small — the Rasa Tiny Home by Simplify Further lets you actually try it, and guests have made it one of the most loved homes on Airbnb (a Guest Favorite with a 4.84-star rating across 198 reviews). Tucked into the Florida pines near Lake Butler, this 20-by-8-foot tiny house on wheels sleeps four across two cozy sleeping lofts, with a full kitchen, a walk-in-shower bathroom, an in-unit washer/dryer, and a boho-bright interior wrapped in knotty pine. Best of all, it sits right at Simplify Further’s tiny-home building facility — so a night here doubles as a “try-before-you-buy” tour of the homes they build. Let’s step inside.
The Rasa tiny home by Simplify Further Tiny Homes. Images courtesy of Simplify Further Tiny Homes.
Most camper vans are built for a season, a trip, or a phase of life. Nanuq was built for a way of living. This Yama Vans conversion is the rolling home base for two Alaska-based dentists who split their year between remote clinical rotations and time spent deep in the wild places that drew them north in the first place. When your work takes you off the road grid and your time off takes you even further, you don’t need a weekend toy — you need a four-season basecamp that can keep up.
Named for the Inupiaq word for polar bear, Nanuq is built on Yama’s flagship Logan01N platform: a 170″ all-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz Sprinter engineered from the chassis up to live comfortably off-grid for weeks at a time. It’s one of the most capable expedition vans we’ve featured, and the story behind it is a great reminder that the best builds start with how someone actually lives.
After more than a decade of tiny living, Joshua and Shelley Engberg of Tiny House Basics are passing the torch: their beloved “Entertaining Abode” — the home where their whole tiny house journey began — is going up for sale.
This is the original build behind one of the most popular tiny house plan sets out there. Over the years, the Engbergs have helped hundreds of people build their own version of this 28-footer from its plans. Now the real thing is looking for its next owner.
If you have been waiting for an Escape tiny home with more breathing room, the brand-new eONE XL Wide + Tall is available now in a flash sale at $129,700 (financing available) — everything about this model has been expanded, with a wider, taller, thoughtfully redesigned layout that makes it one of the most spacious and comfortable homes ESCAPE has ever built.
Some tiny houses are built to live in full time. Others are built to make you slow down for a few days, breathe, and remember what quiet feels like. Shiva, a farmhouse-style tiny house on wheels from Simplify Further Tiny Homes, is in the second camp a private little escape dropped into an open North Florida field, complete with an outdoor clawfoot tub, a fire pit, and horses grazing just beyond the fence.
The Shiva tiny home by Simplify Further Tiny Homes. Images courtesy of Simplify Further Tiny Homes.
GB01 is where it all started — the very first Gear Bus that Yama Vans ever built. The Canadian upfitter designed it as a no-frills, all-function hauler for people who live light but carry a lot: skis and a snowboard in winter, mountain bikes in summer, and friends or family whenever the trip calls for it. Even the colors come from the outdoors, with a palette grounded in forest green, desert orange, and alpine tones.
Under the playful “The Gear Bus” graphics is a seriously capable rig: an all-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 144 on all-terrain tires, a pop-top for extra sleeping space, removable seating that scales from four to ten, and a Murphy bed across the back. The layout is modular, so seats and storage rearrange in minutes to fit the trip.
Every tiny-house company has an origin story, and for Simplify Further Tiny Homes in North Central Florida, it begins with Shanti. This is the home Krsna Balynas and Govinda Carol built first — with little construction experience and a lot of secondhand materials — then listed on Airbnb just to see what would happen. It booked out almost immediately, the bookings kept coming, and a backyard experiment grew into a whole village of rentals and a full-time tiny-house building business. Today the Shanti lives on as the company’s “most simple and economical” model: a wide-open, single-level tiny house on wheels with a ground-floor queen bedroom, a real kitchen, and a full bathroom, starting around $30,000. Let’s take the tour of the home that started it all.
The Shanti tiny house by Simplify Further Tiny Homes. Images courtesy of Simplify Further Tiny Homes.
