Kirsty needed a place to live with her daughter and decided a tiny house would be the perfect, affordable fit. While there were a lot of ups and downs in getting the house from the builder, they got an incredible parking spot in a small community with other like-minded families! Did I mention there’s an orchard on-site?
The home has two lofts—one for Kirsty and one for her daughter—and you reach them via safe staircases that also offer storage. The huge kitchen maximizes counter space and makes homemade meals easy! On the other side of the house, you’ll find a U-shaped dinette area that they use to welcome friends for dinner every week. What do you think of this space?
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Their Professionally-Built Tiny Home with a Garden
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This is an incredible round floating tower cottage on a lake in Joncherey, France. It’s part of a larger community of eco-friendly habitats that share a lovely “lodge” on the shore with a spa and full bathrooms.
The floating home is reminiscent of “Swiss Family Robinson,” with rustic railings made from limbs and an all-wooden interior. There is a little bathroom on the first floor, and the second floor houses a queen bed. The deck area wraps around the house, providing a comfortable spot to enjoy nature and a mug of coffee.
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Beautiful Tower Cottage on the Lake: Eco-Stay in France
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Steve and Di were living in an urban apartment when Di started crunching numbers and realizing that having a child would make it tough to make ends meet. That’s when she and Steve decided that a DIY tiny house would give them more time with their son, less time at work, and a closer connection to the land.
They’ve been living in a tiny home for about 5 years and have moved it a couple of times before settling on their current rural homestead in Australia. The little house is off-grid, powered by solar, with a composting toilet, a garden, and animals. They love their remote and quiet life, especially spending time on the huge porch that wraps around two of the walls.
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Their Reclaimed Materials Home Cost just $20K!
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Are you searching for some tiny house plans? Small House Catalog released three excellent choices recently: A 336-square-foot A-frame, a 224-square-foot studio cottage, and an itty bitty writer’s cabin.
If you’re looking for a full-time residence, the A-Frame is likely your best bet as it has a first-floor bedroom, a loft, and a kitchen and bathroom area. The studio cottage would make a great guest cottage, although with enough storage you could easily live in it full-time. Finally, the writer’s cabin is the most basic of the plans and is meant as an auxiliary office, since there’s no plumbing planned in. Check them out below and tell us which is your favorite!
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Small House Catalog’s Latest Tiny Home Plans
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Purposely Lost is a fantastic woodland retreat space in Sandford, Maine, where you can stay in one of three treehouses or two “Hobbit” houses. This underground home, pictured below, is a stunning blend of cozy and luxurious, with warm wood tones, leather accents, and stonework.
The home looks like a hill, with moss and mud surrounding the doors and windows. But when you enter, it’s anything but dingy and dirty! Instead, the comfortable space has a full kitchen, a bathroom (with a tiled shower stall!), and a gorgeous stone (electric) fireplace. Could you live in this space?
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Private Patio, Stone Staircase & Luxury Finishes
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This Hobbit house in Pawling, NY features the signature round door and living roof inspired by Tolkien’s designs. The interior is spacious with two separate queen-sized bedrooms, a dining room, living room, full kitchen with full-sized appliances, and two bathrooms. Outdoor amenities include a fire pit and private hot tub accessed via a winding path.
Design Details
- Location: Pawling, New York
- Style: Hobbit/earth-sheltered
- Bedrooms: 2 (both queen-sized beds)
- Bathrooms: 2
- Kitchen: Full-sized appliances, coffee bar
- Features: Round door, living roof, carved ceiling, electric fireplace, skylight
- Outdoor: Fire pit, private hot tub, spiral walkway
- Availability: Rental on Airbnb
- Note: No children under 12, no pets, no smoking
Exterior with Round Door
Images via Airbnb/Jodi & Jim
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Melissa’s Santa Fe Studio is a gorgeous little adobe casita that offers all the comforts of home in a compact floor plan. Guests rave about the comfortable bed sitting beneath gorgeous exposed beams. French doors lead out into the small covered patio area where you can slowly warm up to the morning.
The bedroom flows into the living space where there’s ample seating and a television. Hungry? In just a couple of steps, you’ll be in the galley kitchen with full-sized retro appliances and a pink refrigerator! Finally, the peach-colored bathroom has a grand walk-in shower and a beautiful repurposed vanity.
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Beautiful Little Adobe Casita: Centrally Located
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Cool Cottages by DMR is one of the newest tiny house builders, and it is now debuting its flagship model: The Dragonfly Cottage! This gorgeous single-level tiny house includes a ground-floor bedroom with a twin bunk over a queen-sized main bed. Plenty of storage is in the bedroom and everywhere else in the home.
With 10 feet of width, Cool Cottages could fit a comfortable living area in the main part of the 28-foot home. A love seat faces a framed-in TV, and a huge kitchen (with a dishwasher!) takes up the back wall. An open-concept mudroom hanging area and a lovely bathroom on the other end of the house with a walk-in tiled shower stall. It’s for sale for $159K in Indiana.
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10-foot-wide Tiny Home with Cozy Living Space
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This PodTel might be the future of housing! It was factory-built and dropped off via crane in the Spanish desert, and it’s completely, 100% self-sustaining. The tiny house is off-grid with solar panels, an incinerating toilet, and a water system that sucks moisture out of the air to provide water for the home.
All of those features are then controlled by your smartphone via a special app, making the entire house smart as well as sustainable! You can dim the lights, control the temperature, and even purchase locked “extras” while you stay there. Because the home is self-contained, it can be placed just about anywhere in the world (that you can move a crane, of course). What do you think?
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DistrictHive Builds Futuristic Tiny Home in the Middle of the Desert
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