This backyard tiny house is used as an office. If you work from home what better way to separate your career life with your home life then to build an office a few steps away? Designed by Sarah Deeds of Deeds Design and built by carpenter John McBride. It was even recently featured on Dwell Magazine and photographed by Lenny Gonzalez. The passive solar structure is just 120-square-feet in size and since it’s heavily insulated requires no heating at all. With the sun coming in, a computer running and a human body inside it keeps warm just fine. Fortunately, our friends Kirsten Dirksen and Nicolas Boullosa of Faircompanies went and visited to create an amazing video tour and interview we can all enjoy.
Want more kind of like this? Join our FREE Small House Newsletter!
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
Most of the wood used to build the structure was either FSC certified or salvaged. Enjoy the rest of the photos and a video tour below:
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
Notice the custom built desk and how you can slide paperwork in the slots provided to keep organized and maintain a clutter-free environment. Great idea!
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
I really like the old school sink. Very well done.
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
Photo by Nicolas Boullosa
Video: Backyard Tiny House Office Studio
Big thanks to Nicolas Boullosa and Kirsten Dirksen for going out and creating the video. Also be sure to visit Deeds Design where you’ll find more great photos of the interior of the structure.
If you want more updates like this in your email join our free tiny house newsletter.
You can also join our Small House Newsletter!
Also, try our Tiny Houses For Sale Newsletter! Thank you!
More Like This: Tiny Houses | Lakefront Shed Turned Vacation Villa | THOW
If you enjoyed this backyard tiny house office studio “Like” and share using the buttons below then share your favorite part about it in the comments below. Thanks! I don’t know about you, but this would be my dream workplace. Especially to write, edit videos and record interviews. What sort of work would you do in here?
Sources:
- http://deedsdesign.com/smstudio9.html
Alex
A material that might be of interest is industrial wire shelving. It is in expensive enough and is a much stronger version of those closet shelf wires that are usually white and plastic coated. This material comes with 2×2 or 4X4 squares and can be purchased in large sizes with very heavy duty wire. For remote areas it would make burglary very unlikely as it would take great effort to penetrate walls covered with this material. It could also offer huge opportunities for decoration as well as create a space to run wires or plumbing or even hinge a bed or desk as it is strong enough for those uses. Even for people in bear country this material could probably keep a tiny home free from a grizzly attack.
Thanks Jim.
Love to see videos from Kirsten and faircompanies. Thanks for posting.
Really liked the pull out boxes underneath the couch. Their fronts were so unusually decorated. Very nice.
Thanks Carolyn I love their videos too!
What a terrific structure. So well thought out. As to your question today about orienting for solar gain, well it’s a smart thing to do! However, I find where I live that it not as much trouble staying warm in winter as it is keeping cooler in the summer. I will be going completely off-grid–old style. No fans to help me out. So I have to take pains to keep the Sun off of my south side in hot weather. And I’ll need a cupola on top. They did make the excellent point that the sun shining in adds to the cheerfulness of the place, though, and that is worth thinking about too. Thanks for posting this one, Alex.
Thanks Julie!
Love this tiny house / office. Looking at a property now on which to build a tiny house / office building, so loving your ideas and feedback on what is working for you! Great clean lines – love the beams on the ceiling for architectural interest. Every detail becomes so much more powerful in a tiny space! Great job! Would like some more info on the construction of the walls – with the furring strips that the exterior wood is attached to – what are the furring strips attached to? How much of the structural frame is recycled? Thank you!
Thanks Monique!! Great questions I wish I could answer them for you.
When the building is this insulated, ventilation becomes an issue. In larger such houses they have “energy recovery ventilators” which force air flow, and transfer heat between incoming and outgoing air. I wonder if that’s necessary for tiny houses?
Great question Eric.
I didn’t see a kitchen or bathroom….obviously hard to do in 120 ft. Did you consider a loft bed accessible by ladder as in a class C motorhome.
Great design and feel! Love the use of reclaimed material. Hope to incorporate that into one of our models soon!
I really like the siding, was wondering if you could explain it more, on furing strips? So purposely not air tight? Will work in wet climates? Thanks