This is a tiny house built by students at Western Sierra YouthBuild.
It’s the only high school in Nevada County that offers vocational training and academic courses.
The tiny house is located in Grass Valley, California. It’s for sale for $22,500 or best offer.
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Tiny House Built by Students at Western Sierra YouthBuild
Highlights:
- Traditionally framed
- 2×4 insulated walls
- Painted drywall interior
- Metal roof
- Custom made trailer
- 160 sq. ft. plus loft
- Maple butcher block countertop
- Larg sink
- LED lights
- Ceiling fan
- Shower with sliding glass doors
- Composting toilet
- Grass Valley, CA 95949
From the builder:
This house was built by Western Sierra YouthBuild, the only high school in Nevada County that offers vocational skills training along with academic courses as a means to gaining a high school diploma. Our students are voluntarily making positive life choices as a means of overcoming very real obstacles like homelessness, domestic and substance abuse among other things. We have an amazing program and would very much like to keep it funded through building these tiny houses.
Resources:
- With more questions about the home, purchase, and transport, contact Eli at [email protected] or (530) 272-2643, x210.
- Western Sierra YouthBuild
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Gr8 program and focus. It provides these youth with opportunities for confidence and success.
That it does! — Tiny House Talk Team
I am a big fan of school districts having or even rediscovering the value and need for vocational / industrial training classes.
Not everyone is college bound, but sooo many educators and school administrators keep insisting that all high school students should be pushed down the college prep track.
Because school districts seem so bent on a college-only path, the construction and manufacturing sectors are quickly running out of interested and skilled students to enter into training and apprentice programs.
A sizable number of students are not college bound because of affordability economics or lack of interest. Lack of an interesting path through high school and into a skilled trade upon graduation directly results in abnormal and unacceptable dropout rates among students.
There is a serious shortage of students with entry level trade skills graduating from high schools and prepared to step into entry level construction and manufacturing jobs.
Unfortunately students who can find high schools that have serious vocational education programs are only being taught basic skills and not being exposed to the critical design evaluation and thinking that is needed to transform a so-so “plan book” solution into a superior product that will serve the end user at a much higher level.
The highlighted project in this article is a good example of a nicely finished product that suffers from not being critically evaluated before the first nail was pounded.
Kids today are very smart and may even be more visually aware and crit-capable than past generations. After learning how to read a set of construction plans, the next step should have been to direct the students to analyze the plans and have them describe how they would “live in and use the spaces” If the students unmasked flaws, then how would they change the design to make it better, safer, more economical to build and easier to sell.
All of those learned pre-construction analytical skills will be needed someday when the student enters their chosen trade or profession.
Smart companies have “suggestion boxes” and employees are encouraged to make suggestions that result in better solutions and are rewarded when a suggestion improves a process or product.
We need to re-discover the high value to students and society that comes from teaching kids how to complete the “eye-hand-brain” connections. If we, as a society, cannot educate students to be thinkers, creators and builders, then the future will see robots taking over the good paying jobs that so many adults and entry level workers are seeking.
AVD
I do agree students should be able to think creatively, but I also think this is an awesome tiny house! — Tiny House Talk Team
Kudos to Youth Build! This is a lovely tiny home!
Great project and great value for a lucky buyer.
Definitely! — Tiny House Talk Team
Lovely! A job well done!
Absolutely! — Tiny House Talk Team
Impressed every time to see a program such as this!
Yes if more of our youth learn skills such as these maybe we won’t need to hire people from outside to do the job.?
Very good for these kids to learn these skills! — Tiny House Talk Team
AVD Ditto:) Well said and TRUE
I am in need of help to build from a 24ft trailer frame on my property. I have been trying to find any one in my area that knows anything enough to help me. If you know of some students able and willing to make a project come alive this spring I’m ready, Hargerville ON, Canada
While I agree with AVD in his well-written, thoughtful, and thought provoking post, I also think the kids did a great job with this and can be proud of their efforts. Okay, so maybe the interior articulation could use some future tweaking, but on whole, a really good job. The kids can learn from this creation and go on to new and improved versions. This project also makes the kids in this generation aware of the existence of Tiny Houses and how they could serve Seniors, the handicapped, Singles, low-income and no-income (homeless) people. I hope the shop teachers are discussing zoning and code laws that prevent Tiny Houses. Maybe it will be the younger generation that will break the stranglehold the Real Estate people (Chamber of Commerce) has on land use.
Totally agree, Lisa. Great way to put it!
Well done! I especially like the bright interior.
Great tiny home, very nice finishes inside but I would add a railing on the wall for the storage stairs and I was unsure of where the living room type of space is located. It is more than worth the price being asked, it is actually a steal at that price considering all the work is done and nicely at that with enough room/wall space to make tweaks that you might want.
Just looked over the pics again and I am guessing that the area where there is the table and chair is the living room area. OOPS.
Yes it’s a good deal!
I LOVE this tiny home! I especially love how open and bright this place is. So many tiny homes seem to be so dark and depressing but this is just flooded with light! It is just so cheerful! Great job students!
Agree! I love sunshine 🙂