Building a tiny house from scratch can feel overwhelming, especially if you’ve never picked up a framing hammer. Where do you start? What order do things go in? How do you make sure the structure is actually sound?
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That’s exactly the gap that Tiny Home Builders’ hands-on workshops are designed to fill. Led by Dan Louche — who has 14+ years of tiny house building experience and has taught over 60 workshops — these 2-day intensives take you from zero construction knowledge to confidently understanding how a tiny house comes together, piece by piece.
Three workshop dates are coming up in 2026, and they tend to sell out. Here’s what you need to know.
What You Actually Build in Two Days
This isn’t a lecture-only seminar where you sit in a conference room watching slides. The format is roughly 50% instruction and 50% hands-on building, and by “hands-on” they mean you’re literally constructing a floor section and corner wall assembly from the ground up.
Over the two days, you’ll work through the same sequence a real tiny house build follows:
- Subfloor framing — building the structural floor platform that everything else sits on
- Wall framing — learning how studs, headers, and plates come together
- Sheathing — attaching the exterior skin that gives the structure rigidity
- House wrap and weather protection — the critical moisture barrier most DIYers underestimate
- Window flashing and installation — one of the most common failure points in amateur builds, done properly here
The beauty of building an actual corner section is that it covers the most technically demanding junction in any structure. If you can frame, sheath, and flash a corner correctly, the rest of the wall is straightforward. It’s a smart teaching approach that gives you the hardest skills first.
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Classroom Topics: Beyond the Hammer
The lecture portions cover the areas that hands-on building alone can’t teach:
- Tools and materials selection — what to buy, what to skip, and cost-saving strategies that don’t sacrifice quality
- Electrical system components — understanding your options from standard 30-amp hookups to off-grid solar setups
- Plumbing products and techniques — PEX vs. copper, tankless water heaters, and composting toilet options
- Parking, zoning, and legal considerations — arguably the most confusing part of tiny house ownership, and the topic most builders wish they’d researched earlier
That last point deserves emphasis. You can build a perfect tiny house, but if you don’t understand where you can legally park it, you’ve got an expensive problem. Dan covers the current landscape of regulations, zoning workarounds, and the options that are opening up as more municipalities create tiny house-friendly codes.
Who Is Dan Louche?
Dan founded Tiny Home Builders in 2010 after a personal experience that many in the tiny house community will recognize: his mother was living in a deteriorating mobile home near Tampa, Florida that had developed mold and was causing respiratory issues. Looking for a better solution, Dan discovered the tiny house movement through a PBS program and realized there was almost no reliable, consolidated information about how to actually build one.
That gap became his mission. Over the next 14+ years, Dan wrote the Tiny House Design & Construction Guide (which every workshop attendee receives as a digital copy), designed tiny house plans, launched a custom trailer manufacturing operation, and built the workshop program that has now trained thousands of aspiring builders across 60+ sessions.
His teaching style, according to attendees, breaks complex construction concepts into “bite-sized” segments that build on each other. One past participant noted that they learned “more and got more hands-on experience in your 2-day workshop than…in the other 2 weeks” of training they’d done elsewhere.
2026 Workshop Dates and Locations
Three workshops are currently scheduled for 2026:
- Atlanta, GA — April 18-19, 2026
- Asheville, NC — May 30-31, 2026
- Atlanta, GA — October 10-11, 2026
Both locations are in the Southeast, which makes sense given Tiny Home Builders’ base of operations. Atlanta offers easy airport access for those flying in, while Asheville puts you in one of the most active tiny house communities in the country — a great excuse to tour some builds while you’re in town.
Workshops have historically sold out, so registering early is recommended if you’re serious.
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What’s Included
Beyond the two days of instruction and hands-on building, attendees also receive:
- A free digital copy of Dan’s Tiny House Design & Construction Guide
- Substantial discounts on tiny house plans
- Discounts on Tiny Home Builders’ online workshop library (for continued learning after the event)
- Discounts on custom tiny house trailers
The bonuses alone represent significant value, especially if you’re planning a build. The trailer discount in particular could save you hundreds of dollars on one of the most expensive components of a tiny house on wheels.
Is This Workshop Right for You?
This workshop is designed for people at the beginning of their tiny house journey. No prior carpentry or construction experience is required. If you’ve been watching YouTube videos, reading blogs, and dreaming about your build for months (or years), this is the kind of structured, expert-guided experience that turns research into confidence.
It’s also valuable for people who have some construction knowledge but haven’t applied it specifically to tiny houses. Tiny house construction has unique considerations — trailer integration, weight distribution, road-worthiness, compact systems — that standard residential building experience doesn’t cover.
If you’re looking for a more advanced, build-your-own-complete-house experience, this isn’t that. It’s a 2-day primer that gives you the foundation (literally and figuratively) to tackle your own build with competence.
Learn More
- Workshop details and registration: tinyhomebuilders.com/tiny-house-workshops/hands-on
- Tiny Home Builders website: tinyhomebuilders.com
- Dan Louche’s book: Tiny House Design & Construction Guide (included free with workshop registration)
- Use our affiliate link to register, and it helps support the blog & newsletter: https://tinyhousetalk.com/thbw25
Highlights
- 2-day hands-on tiny house building workshops in Atlanta, GA and Asheville, NC
- 50% lecture, 50% hands-on construction — you build a floor and corner wall section
- Covers framing, sheathing, house wrap, window flashing, electrical, plumbing, and zoning
- No prior carpentry or construction experience required
- Led by Dan Louche with 14+ years of tiny house building experience and 60+ workshops taught
- Free digital copy of the Tiny House Design & Construction Guide included
- Discounts on plans, online workshops, and custom tiny house trailers
- Three dates in 2026: April 18-19 (Atlanta), May 30-31 (Asheville), October 10-11 (Atlanta)
- Workshops tend to sell out — early registration recommended
Have you attended a tiny house building workshop? Did it change how you approached your build? Share your experience in the comments below — we’d love to hear what made the biggest difference for you.
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