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Escape Boho Tiny House with Shou Sugi Ban-Style Black Paneling

The Boho is one of ESCAPE’s most recognizable models, and this particular build showed off the version most people fall for: pale plywood walls on the inside, black SmartSide paneling on the outside. That contrast is the whole trick. The dark, matte exterior reads modern and almost disappears into a wooded lot, while the light interior bounces what daylight comes through the windows so a studio-sized footprint never feels like a tunnel.

The layout is a single open studio. Flip-down tables handle both work and dining without permanently eating floor space, and a fold-flat couch turns the living area into a second sleeping spot. The kitchen runs a stone countertop, gas range, and a full-height refrigerator, with open shelving instead of upper cabinets to keep the wall from closing in. The bathroom fits a full-sized shower and a TOTO toilet, and a high-efficiency heat pump handles both heating and cooling.

Editor’s note: this specific unit was offered at $62.3K (a $5.2K discount) back in 2023 and has long since sold. We’re keeping the tour up because the Boho is still in production and the design lessons here hold up. For homes you can actually buy today, see the current listings below.
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Inside the Boho: A Studio-Layout Tiny House from ESCAPE

Compact tiny house kitchen with sink, stove, and refrigerator in a small space.

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Here you can see the two tables flipped down.

Bright tiny house interior featuring minimalist decor and large windows for natural light.

Images via ESCAPE

There’s a lovely couch that becomes a second bed.

Escape Boho for sale.

Images via ESCAPE

The bathroom has a full shower stall.

Compact bathroom featuring Sugi Sugi Ban shou sugi ban paneling for a stylish, natural look.

Images via ESCAPE

VIDEO: Boho Dark

Design Details

  • Model: ESCAPE Boho
  • Layout: open studio, no loft
  • Exterior: black SmartSide paneling
  • Interior: plywood wall panels, Scandinavian-leaning finish
  • Kitchen: stone countertop, gas range, tall refrigerator, open shelving
  • Bathroom: full-sized shower stall, TOTO toilet
  • Climate: high-efficiency A/C and heat pump
  • Flexible furniture: flip-down tables, fold-flat couch (second bed)
  • Original asking price: $62,300 (2023, sold)

What Makes This Build Worth Studying

  • Dark outside, light inside. A charred-look exterior hides road grime and weathering far better than a pale finish, while the light interior keeps a windowless-feeling studio from going cave-like.
  • Furniture that folds beats furniture that is big. Flip tables and a fold-flat couch let one room be an office, a dining room, and a guest bedroom without a single square foot of dedicated space.
  • Studio layouts trade a loft for headroom. Skipping the sleeping loft gives you full ceiling height everywhere, which is why this feels larger than its footprint. The tradeoff is that your bed lives in your living room.
  • Open shelving is a small-space decision, not just a style one. Upper cabinets visually drop the ceiling and crowd a galley; shelves keep the sightline long.

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Natalie C. McKee

Natalie C. McKee is a contributor for Tiny House Talk and the Tiny House Newsletter. She's a wife, and mama of three little kids. She and her family are homesteaders with sheep, goats, chickens, ducks and quail on their happy little acre.

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  • Mary
    June 6, 2023, 10:28 am

    This is a great little Tiny, but with no room between the sink and stove, the kitchen is unworkable. Looks like one or two inches of counter space. Sure, a cutting board would work over the sink, but when I cook, I use the sink throughout the process. This situation would be helped with a pull out cutting board.

    The deep sink and stove + oven is nice! And a big fridge. Lovely.

    Nice too that when the bathroom door is open, the view is the sink and not the toilet.

    Also nice that instead of making the kitchen window smaller, the shelf goes in front of a very big window.

    So many nice features!

    • James D.
      June 6, 2023, 5:51 pm

      Well, probably won’t change how you feel about it, but distance between the sink and the stove is actually 6 inches and the stove has a cover, which means when not using it that it can serve as additional prep space. Along with the drawer storage unit on the opposite side, which has butcher counter top on it. So that’s actually part of the kitchen…

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