The Purple Heart Manor is an ultra-custom medieval-inspired tiny house built by Acorn Tiny Homes in Toronto, Canada. Built on a 43-foot by 10.5-foot gooseneck trailer, the home features a dramatic roofline, faux stone siding, a solid mahogany Tudor-style door, and custom stained glass windows.
The interior continues the medieval theme with a chandelier, Victorian vanity, and dungeon-style wallpaper. The homeowner’s love of purple shows throughout: purple tiles, purple ceilings, purple sinks, and purple accents in every room. The design also includes cat-friendly features, including an exterior catio.
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Medieval Exterior with Faux Stone and Tudor Door
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Functional Entry with Built-In Storage
The entrance features a long bench with storage above and below, hooks for coats, and space for shoes and bags. The bench doubles as overflow seating for the living room.
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Living Room with Library Ladder and Pullout Sofa
A custom Chesterfield sofa pulls out into a double guest bed. The entertainment wall includes a TV, gaming console storage, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves with a rolling library ladder, and a compact home office.
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Kitchen with Off-Grid Appliances
The kitchen includes a retro-style DC refrigerator, propane stove and oven, drawer dishwasher, and purple farmhouse sink. A tea and coffee nook with drop-leaf table provides space for dining.
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Bathroom with Soaker Tub and Victorian Vanity
The full bathroom features a soaker tub, rain shower, Victorian vanity, and makeup station. A heated toilet seat with integrated bidet adds comfort. A wall-to-wall closet houses a combo washer/dryer, laundry hamper, hanging space, and dresser drawers.
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Gooseneck Bedroom with Queen Lift Bed
The standing-height gooseneck bedroom features a queen-size lift-up bed for storage access and wraparound windows. Space below the windows accommodates a piano.
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Video Tour: Purple Heart Manor
Design Details
- Name: Purple Heart Manor
- Builder: Acorn Tiny Homes (Toronto, Canada)
- Trailer: 43′ x 10.5′ gooseneck
- Style: Medieval/Tudor-inspired
- Exterior: Faux stone siding, dramatic roofline
- Door: Solid mahogany Tudor-style
- Windows: Custom stained glass
- Theme Color: Purple throughout
- Bedroom: Gooseneck with standing height, queen lift bed
- Guest Bed: Pullout Chesterfield sofa (double)
- Living Room: Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves with rolling library ladder
- Kitchen: DC refrigerator, propane stove/oven, drawer dishwasher
- Bathroom: Soaker tub, rain shower, Victorian vanity
- Toilet: Heated seat with integrated bidet
- Laundry: Combo washer/dryer in closet
- Off-Grid Ready: DC fridge, propane cooking
- Cat Features: Exterior catio
- Special Features: Library ladder, chandelier, dungeon wallpaper
Lessons from This Build
- Theme-Based Design Creates Cohesion: Carrying the medieval/Tudor theme from exterior to interior—faux stone, stained glass, chandelier, dungeon wallpaper—gives the home a unified character that random design choices cannot achieve
- Gooseneck Trailers Enable Standing Bedrooms: The 43-foot gooseneck provides a standing-height bedroom over the hitch, eliminating the need to climb into a low loft while adding significant living space
- Entry Storage Reduces Clutter: A dedicated mudroom area with bench, hooks, and shoe storage keeps outdoor items organized and prevents mess from spreading into living spaces
- Library Ladders Access Vertical Storage: Rolling library ladders make floor-to-ceiling bookshelves practical, turning wall height into usable storage without requiring step stools or chairs
- Off-Grid Appliances Maintain Comfort: DC refrigerators and propane stoves allow the home to function without grid power while still providing full-size cooking and refrigeration capabilities
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What a fun home! Super minor issues I have: why not paint the electrical panel cover? And for my preference, the fridge opens the wrong way. But I love the library ladder, and the cat accommodations. What a great place!
“why not paint the electrical panel cover?”
Builder usually doesn’t do anything that may be interpreted as covering or blocking the panel because of inspection and passing the electrical codes. So it usually gets done after delivery… You also don’t want any paint to cover up any required markings or get inside the panel or cause an issue with opening or removing the panel cover, cause damage to the paint job later, etc. which means it needs to be carefully done and the owner may have other plans for dealing with it or is simply not bothered by it…
Incredible somewhat tiny home — love most all of it — such marvellous storage — everywhere — all packed into 500-plus square feet. Loads of personality that suits the client — and fabulous place for cats — disclaimer: cat lover here!!
I’ve been reading tinyhousetalk from the beginning. I love the size and configuration of the home. The great workmanship, fit and finish seem evident. But among other things I do under company names that are not relevant here and that require lots of licenses and schooling are other still other things that I also do under a variety of company names such as design digital photographic collages, digital jigsaw puzzles, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, household linens, and take portraits. I’ve been an artist, sculptor and photographer for more than 55 years. SO WHY DO I MENTION ALL OF THIS? Because I know and love color!
But frankly: I have never seen color used to make a tiny home look less appealing than it could otherwise be. In all of my years of tiny house fandom I’ve never felt motivated to make the kinds of comments I am making here and I am not trying to hurt anyone by my comments but to be constructive.
Granted this combination of colors in this particular tiny home might have been a personal choice of favorite colors by a homeowner or builder, but it does not do much to play up the very good things about the home or even to “sell” the home marketing-wise and day-in and day-out I think the color combination will be hard to live with and then hard to sell to others as the years go on.
The colors are neither energizing nor calming; in fact to me, they are “blah” and “energy-sapping”. And I even love a variety of “purples” so that’s not my issue and I’d feel far more comfortable with the seemingly “oatmeal-colored” stuff accessorized with pops of purples, indigos, lavenders, and mauve for accessories and not to have the exact color cabinet fronts that are pictured here.
My overall points here: Especially in a tiny home consider the actual variations of colors when picking and especially when picking cabinetry and even “appliances such as toilets, showers, sinks”, flooring, counters, stairways, kitchen cabs, kitchen appliances and washing machine / dryers that will hang around just about “forever”. Considering the natural lighting or lack of it.
To make this home more visually stimulating and more attractive, consider great lighting and light fixtures, great upholstery fabrics or leathers or high quality-looking leathers, suedes or simulated leathers & suedes, great bedroom linens, great furniture shapes, consider as large sizes of artwork as possible with great framing, pillows, mirrors, strategic placement of wallpapers, “classy ” window treatments, AND plants. Furniture colors that would be helpful to take away from “blahness” would be beautiful rich-colors of woods in the darker browns” and not overly upholstered puffy-looking furniture without wood showing. The size of this home is perfect for doing all of the above. (Even wallunits lined with mirrors and with lighting would be helpful.)
Consider the help of an interior designer even. (And there are inexpensive ways to do that and what makes furniture, fabrics, and accessories “great” and “classy” is not “price” or a fancy designer name so I am not being “snobby”.). Sure hope I have not offended anyone!
It was custom, buyers choice, and that’s the reality of custom builds because people can have up to completely different preferences and needs. So, it’s a market that renovation/remodel often is part of any resale… While the builder can just customize each one they build to specific buyer and it doesn’t really matter what they did for another as each can be different and unique…
You guys are really off the chain by calling this a “Tiny House”.
I saw the exterior of this Tiny and fell in love. It was warm and friendly, and off-the-charts interesting. Love that stained glass window! I was filled with anticipation about seeing the interior with all the potential the exterior hinted at. Purple is even one of my favorite colors! I am sorry to say that I was sorely disappointed. As warm and friendly as the exterior is, the interior is completely the opposite. I see that they were trying to make the interior interesting and a bit of a fantasy but it falls short because of how cold it is and that is mostly a function of the shades of those colors they chose. Perhaps a warmer shade of gray would help. Of course it’s based on personal preferences and what I want to experience in my home so I’m sure that there is someone out there that will absolutely love how this is appointed. There are plenty of creative design elements so I say kudos to the designer(s) for that but it’s just not at all appealing because of the cool versions of the colors that were chosen. I understand that adding a person’s own decorating items would warm it up a bit but I’m pretty sure that if I was looking to buy, the coldness of it would make me look to the next model very quickly. I avoid being negative and I’m not completely comfortable doing so here but manufacturers show their homes here in order to get a reaction and feedback so I felt I needed to be honest with them. I also understand that the colors may have been selected by a buyer so the manufacturer cannot be held responsible for someone else’s choices. Sadly, this was a disappointment that didn’t live up to the anticipation the exterior sparked. Sorry.
“I also understand that the colors may have been selected by a buyer so the manufacturer cannot be held responsible for someone else’s choices.”
This was a custom build, so that is the case here…
“Perhaps a warmer shade of gray would help.”
Maybe but can’t tell unless seen in person, some colors simply won’t show well in photos or video. While also depends on intent, stains, etc. typically try to keep the appearance of the wood and isn’t going to be as vivid as paint. Alternatively, Milk paints, etc. can also bring a more old time look and will be more subdued, matte, finish.
Appearance can also depend on lighting, some will even change shades of color depending on the lighting and angle you are viewing it. This can be intentional to create variations throughout the day.
While, as you said, there could be other elements not present yet that would effect the overall appearance. Along, with the possibility that it’s what yet to be added to the home that is intended to be the focus and the rest of the home is either for contrast or highlighting that actual focus.