Plenty of tiny houses send you up a ladder to bed, but the Tallebudgera by Removed Tiny Homes never asks you to climb at all. Built by the Gold Coast, Australia–based maker Removed Tiny Homes and delivered nationwide across Australia, this 9.6-meter (about 31’6″) single-storey home tucks a full bedroom, a private ensuite, and an open kitchen-and-living zone all onto one level beneath a striking gable roof — roughly 23 square meters (about 248 sq ft) of calm, connected living with no lofts and no stairs. Removed designed it “for those who prefer to keep their feet on the ground,” pairing the simplicity of single-level living with the comfort of a full-sized home, and with a starting price around AU$132,990 it’s aimed at singles, couples, and downsizers who want everything within easy reach.
Most tiny houses ask you to climb a ladder to bed, but the Cabarita by Removed Tiny Homes keeps the main bedroom right on the ground floor and saves the loft for everyone (and everything) else. Built by the Gold Coast, Australia–based maker Removed Tiny Homes and delivered nationwide across Australia, this 9.6-meter (about 31’6″) transportable home wraps clean vertical cladding around large sliding-glass doors and opens up inside to roughly 33 square meters (355 sq ft) of light-filled living — a full-size downstairs bedroom, a walk-through ensuite, a generous kitchen, and a living room anchored by a signature picture window, all topped by a spacious upstairs loft. Removed describes it as “spacious, grounded, and designed to flow,” and with a starting price around AU$145,990 it’s pitched squarely at the families and downsizers who simply need a little more room to spread out.
If the Lukas and Samuel are Craft House’s compact modular homes, the Jake is the Polish builder’s flagship — and it shows. This 12-meter modular house leads with a dramatic arched gable of double-height glass, packs in two bedrooms (one on the ground floor, one in the mezzanine), and arrives with a full off-grid energy package as standard: 8.5 kW of rooftop solar, a heat pump, and an inverter with battery storage. Add a sage-green island kitchen, a wood-and-marble bathroom, and optional terraces, a carport, and a gazebo, and the Jake stops feeling like a tiny house altogether and starts feeling like a self-sufficient small home.
Perfectly situated on a quiet end lot with exceptional privacy, the brand-new SHORELINE at Lot 23 in Canoe Bay Village overlooks the beautiful waters of Lost Lake in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and delivers panoramic views, outstanding comfort, and a long list of custom upgrades designed for effortless lakefront living. From the dramatic window wall to the spacious screened porch, the water is always front and center — and with no HOA fees and no property taxes, ownership here is refreshingly simple. Let’s take a closer look.
The latest issue of Tiny House Magazine is out, and Issue #162 is a little different from the usual build tours. This one is all about the people behind tiny living, with honest, personal stories about letting go, accessibility, and what “enough” really means.
After touring the gable-roofed Lukas, we’re staying in Craft House’s modular range with its single-pitch sibling, the Samuel. This 10-meter modular house from the Polish builder takes a different tack: a low shed roof, a warm spruce-lined interior in place of marble and white, and one of the most generous lofts in the lineup — a full 13-square-meter mezzanine over a 26-square-meter ground floor that already includes a private bedroom. The result is a cabin-like modern home with real separation between sleeping and living, finished for year-round use.
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You can frame the walls, hang the cedar, and build the dreamiest little kitchen on wheels (or on a foundation) — but the moment the sun goes down, none of it matters if you can’t turn on a light, charge your laptop, or keep the fridge cold. Power is the part of a van conversion or tiny house build that quietly makes or breaks the whole project.
And it’s also the part that scares people the most. Volts, amps, watt-hours, charge controllers, “will this thing catch fire?” — the electrical system is where a lot of first-time builders freeze up, overspend, or end up with a Frankenstein setup of mismatched parts that never quite works.
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Here’s the good news: you don’t have to be an electrician to get this right. You just need a system that’s designed to work together — and that’s exactly the gap Renogy fills. Below, we’ll break down the off-grid power setup we’d recommend to anyone building out a van or a tiny home, what each piece actually does in plain English, and how to skip months of YouTube rabbit holes.
Up to now we’ve toured Craft House’s lineup of mobile tiny homes on wheels, but the Polish builder also makes a larger modular range — and the Lukas is a standout. At 10 meters long and 3.5 meters wide, this gable-roofed modular house wraps 28.2 square meters around something most tiny homes have to choose between: a real ground-floor bedroom and a skylit sleeping mezzanine up top. Add a full island kitchen with a dishwasher, a marble bathroom with a washing machine, underfloor heating, and triple-glazed windows, and the Lukas feels far more like a compact modern house than a downsized one.
The Surya is the top of Simplify Further Tiny Homes’ lineup — the one built less like a tiny house and more like a small, single-level home. At 32 feet long (in an 8- or 10-foot width) it stretches to 256 square feet with no loft to climb to: instead, a main-floor queen bedroom with sliding glass doors, an open living room, a full kitchen with a real range and a stackable washer/dryer, and a spa-style bathroom all sit on one level. Built near Lake Butler in North Central Florida and pitched as “a comfortable and luxurious design, perfect for long-term living or a gorgeous short-term rental,” it sleeps two to four and starts around $75,000. Let’s take the tour.
The Surya tiny house by Simplify Further Tiny Homes. Images courtesy of Simplify Further Tiny Homes.
