• Donna Rae
  June 3, 2023, 12:37 pm

  This is an impressive Tiny! I like the exterior very much and LOVE the wood ceiling! That kitchen is fabulous (thank you for cupboards with doors above the counter/sink) and the bathroom is very nice. I do have a few suggestions on how to improve on this already great THOW, however. Please put doors on the storage under the stairs. Though absolutely usable without the doors, doors hide the inevitable clutter and make for a calmer environment. I like the small reading nook in the living area but why not have that space span the entire width? Those indentations on either side of the small seat are useless and certainly don’t add that much interest to the exterior, either. Maybe there are restrictions because it is over the hitch? Make the seat a storage bench with a nice, thick cushion for comfortable sitting. Something that is very typical about windows on Tinies is the designers always make them too long. In the reading nook, it would be nice if there was a little wall between the seat and the bottom of the window so pillows or people’s butts wouldn’t be up against glass. The same with the windows in the bedroom loft. Why have windows that are hidden by part of the mattress? And if the windows were just a bit up, you could easily have a view without craning your neck to see out. It looks like there is enough room to raise them up and still look fabulous. I love the skylight but it’s at the wrong end of the loft…your toes would have a great view of the stars at night! 😉 I’d put a nice cabinet with a door above the toilet instead of hooks…I’d find another place for hanging towels. Storage is always the crucial thing in a Tiny for people who are downsizing, right? Please, put a grab bar on the wall by the stairs for safety. Paint it the same color as the wall if you are concerned about it looking out of place. I’m sure the three tall windows together are meant to be a nice design feature but I’d rather have a single large window to look out of. I am wondering if three smaller windows are considered safer than one large window with less chance of breakage when moving the THOW? I see them sometimes as a design element in some Tinies featured in this newsletter. The bottom line is that this is a beautiful Tiny that is aesthetically pleasing…love the white with wood…and anyone would be proud to call it home as is. My comments are meant as suggestions based on my own observations and preferences, and by no means meant to disparage the designers, who did a great job. All suggestions are meant as food for thought for those considering having one built as well as maybe taken into consideration by designers in future projects. My two cents worth only. Thanks for sharing a great Tiny!

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• Liz
  June 3, 2023, 2:23 pm

  I could live there but I wouldn’t want to. Galvanized pipe for stairs is ridiculous. It hurts your feet to go up and down. Galvanized pipe isn’t made for steps. The reading nook and bedroom should be switched since there’s more head room in the nook. I agree that the skylight is in the wrong place, useless and therefore a waste of money. I also agree that the bed covering the windows was poorly planned. Why have them of they’re partially covered? Another case of wasted money. And as usual I don’t think the oversized farmhouse sink is at all practical. Having as much counter space IS much more practical than a farmhouse sink.

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  • James D.
    June 3, 2023, 3:26 pm

    No, there isn’t more headroom in the nook area, they’re the same in height, but you wouldn’t have the high ceiling above the living room seating area if the larger loft was over it and would lose one of the entrances to place the stairs there instead.

    There’s always reasons for design choices…

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• James D.
  June 3, 2023, 3:16 pm

  “I like the small reading nook in the living area but why not have that space span the entire width? Those indentations on either side of the small seat are useless and certainly don’t add that much interest to the exterior, either. Maybe there are restrictions because it is over the hitch?”

  Yes, that’s a bump out and so that is the entire width, as it can’t be wider than the hitch without making it less structurally sound and getting in the way of the tow vehicle with the ability to make turns. While it also serves as the access to the secondary loft and storage for what’s actually there…

  “In the reading nook, it would be nice if there was a little wall between the seat and the bottom of the window so pillows or people’s butts wouldn’t be up against glass.”

  It’s actually three windows with wall sections between. So there’s actually 2 wall slates in the middle there you can lean against. The windows are a few inches in, towards the exterior, and not that wide each, which makes it hard to lean against them unless you really are trying…

  “Why have windows that are hidden by part of the mattress?”

  It’s the highest uniform point the windows can go and still maintain symmetry with the exterior, all the way around the home, to keep windows on same level to each other and also you can’t put the window where the header and top plate of the wall will go, which means there’s less room there than it seems… Add, emergency egress, you generally don’t want to drop further than you need to in order to reach the ground below…

  “I love the skylight but it’s at the wrong end of the loft…your toes would have a great view of the stars at night!”

  It opens, so keep in mind it also functions as a hatch, place to stand up in the loft, and be able to access the roof. Among other reasons some may prefer it where it is…

  “Storage is always the crucial thing in a Tiny for people who are downsizing, right?”

  Depends on how much they can downsize. So opinions will vary on that…

  “Please, put a grab bar on the wall by the stairs for safety.”

  There’s one at the top where you transition in and out of the loft but people generally do handrails, etc. themselves when they move in but as long as it’s a custom builder you can just specify that requirement. People are just not all going to choose to do that the same way, which usually means the builder leaves it up to the client.

  “I’m sure the three tall windows together are meant to be a nice design feature but I’d rather have a single large window to look out of. I am wondering if three smaller windows are considered safer than one large window with less chance of breakage when moving the THOW?”

  Yes, larger windows are more vulnerable, but also cost. Larger windows can cost significantly more and price will jump significantly as it goes into the custom range…

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• Marsha Cowan
  June 3, 2023, 8:11 pm

  Very pretty inside and outside. I love the ceilings, both the stained ones and the white one in the kitchen. Seems like a lovely cozy home.

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• Alison
  June 3, 2023, 10:51 pm

  There’s a lot to like about this home. I wonder how much head room there is in the sleeping loft (looks tight, but that might be an illusion). It seems odd to me to have such a big, fancy sink but only two cooktop burners, and the oven up above, which one could get used to, but wouldn’t be the best for major cooking projects. I do like the pipe ladder access to the loft through the reading nook area. Not sure how easy it would be, but it looks cool. If it were mine, I’d pay to have drawers and doors in the under-stair storage area.

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• Susan Hathaway
  June 6, 2023, 7:50 pm

  Love the home, but just a heads up.
  The YouTube video is on KIDS so I can’t save the home or even share it. 🙁

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