Danielle Cory is sharing this 8×12 tiny house design as part of our 2015 8×12 tiny house design contest.
“Although I built this plan with a trailer in mind, it can work as a foundation home as well.
Features include:
- Drop down deck for entry
- Tall compact fridge (almost full size)
- Compact stove/oven
- Hide-a-way sink (counter drops down over it once faucet is swiveled to the side)
- In cabinets under the sink there can be optional drawers to pull out from behind the door
- Simple walk in shower
- Dining room seating has storage underneath
- Loft storage above closet/pantry.
- Closet/pantry can also store a compact washer/dryer combo (such as what you see in RVs)
- Swivel wall mounted tv in the loft
- Pop up tables/desks on each side of bed underneath the windows
- Box style stairs with storage in each step, bottom two steps are drawers, and there is extra storage for shoes and/or books.
- A grey water system sink and toilet combo (wash your hands with tank water as it refills from a flush, and the grey water fills the bowl)
- And extra cabinets and storage along the walls.
Hope you like my design!”
-Danielle C. Buckenberger
Las Vegas
Danielle Cory’s 8×12 Tiny House Design
Images © Danielle Cory
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Gary Goldberg is sharing his 8×12 tiny house design floor plan as part of our 2015 8×12 tiny house design contest. His is designed as a cargo trailer tiny house. I’ll let him explain it and show you below. 🙂
“Hello. My pencil drawing for submission to the book contest. 8’x12” says to me — cargo trailer. So I laid it out appropriately. The fantastic fan in the roof is for ventilation. In hindsight I might swap the locations of the Dickinson propane furnace and the A/C mini-split interior component, although I like the idea of being able to see it burning from the bed and table. Assumed wet-wall between kitchen counter and shower. Could move potable water tank to front wall. Bunk beds are 32” wide; kitchen counter is 30” deep. Hard wall in front of composting toilet and door could be replaced with something flexible. like curtain. Hope you like it.”
Gary Goldberg’s 8×12 Cargo Trailer Tiny House Design
Image © Gary Goldberg
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Could you share a tiny house with one of your parents? It wouldn’t work for everyone, but it’s working just fine for Candice and her mother, Baoying.
Candice and Baoying in the sleeping loft.
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Rich Daniels, of Rich’s Portable Cabins in North Powder, Oregon is here to share some wisdom regarding tiny house building standards and safety issues. Since I think his concerns are valid and very important for the future of tiny homes I’m sharing it with you below. Please pass it on.
Wanted to just take a moment to show my appreciation for the Tiny House forum you have created and add a note of concern that I have. I truly enjoy seeing all of the Tiny living spaces that people create for themselves, it is great to see the marriage of art and ingenuity. My concern has been and continues to be our transition as a community into mainstream living. Fighting the decades long belief that bigger is better and trying to have city, counties and states recognize us as a viable legal living option. Those who build Tiny Homes for resale should be vehemently aware of this situation and there is where my concern begins. Although many of the designs I have been seeing lately on your medium are brilliant in many ways, some if not all are lacking the safety features that all manufactures must conform to.
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Below you can see one of Rich’s tiny houses on wheels built to standards inside:
Images © Rich’s Portable Cabins
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This is a 10′ wide by 30′ long 300 sq. ft. tiny house design with additional space in the loft. One of my favorite features about it are that there’s a staircase (not a ladder) to the upstairs loft space.
And there’s enough room up there to have a king sized bed, too, which is great if you’re planning on sharing the space. Plus there’s an additional storage loft area behind the bed. This tiny house has plans for a total of 1400 watts of solar panels and a 150 gallon grey water collection system. More features include:
- A combo washer/dryer under the staircase.
- A wood burning stove.
- A tankless water heater.
And much more. Take the entire 3D tour below. Please enjoy, leave your thoughts in the comments, and re-share if you feel called to. Thanks!
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300 Sq. Ft. 10′ x 30′ Tiny House Design
Images © K Butler/YouTube
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Designed by OH!SOM Architects, this forest fire monitoring micro cabin packs 172 square feet of interior space and a 129-square-foot exterior terrace into a structure perched in an incredible landscape with panoramic views. It was built to watch for wildfires, but it would make for one unforgettable tiny house.
Images courtesy of OH!SOM Architects
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This is Minimaliste Tiny Homes which is a new tiny house construction company out of the Quebec City area of Canada.
And this is one of their very first tiny house designs which they built. It’s modern, spacious, and it seems to make great use of the available space. It’s a 24′ tiny house model called The Sequoia. So far it’s simply a 3D sketch of plans so I’m sure that you, like me, will be even more excited to see when they build their first tiny home so we can see what it might be like to live in it in person (or at least of course in photos and video). Either way, please enjoy and re-share below. 🙂
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Minimaliste Tiny Homes: Modern and Ultra Spacious Tiny Houses?
Images © Minimaliste Design
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This is a 260 Sq. Ft. No Loft Tiny House Design by Ellie Epp who designed a 26′ long and 10′ wide tiny house and is now looking for someone to help build it. It started out as a house truck design but since 26′ length was needed she decided that it wouldn’t be easy to drive a truck at this length so the design evolved into a tiny home. Please enjoy and re-share below. 🙂
I like to live with a lot of light and a constant relation to the outdoors so there can never be too many windows. am a filmmaker so the desk has to take up a lot of space, and also like to work on my bed, which rules out a ladder. – so it’s a very personal design, but maybe there are others (other women?) who share these likings?
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Ellie’s 26′ x 10′ No Loft Tiny House Design
Images © Ellie Epp
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In this video you’ll discover 20 space saving tiny house design tips thanks to Jenna and Guillaume from Tiny House Giant Journey and Derek ‘Deek’ Diedricksen of RelaxShacks.com.
The two have designed and built their own DIY tiny house on wheels and are now traveling the United States and Canada with it while living full time in it. Very exciting and inspiring, isn’t it?
Related: Couple Living and Touring in their DIY Tiny Home on Wheels
VIDEO: 20 Space Saving Tiny House Design Tips
Reminder: Upcoming Hands On Workshop with Deek in North Carolina (Space Limited)
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