Tiny House on Wheels w/ Main Floor Room and Full Closet

• Jenn April 4, 2018, 12:13 pm

  Beautiful! Love this one!

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• Ken Leigh April 4, 2018, 12:49 pm

  What kind of toilet, did not see one in the bathroom pictures.

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  • James D. April 4, 2018, 1:56 pm

    Website indicates it’s a flush toilet…

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• Michael April 4, 2018, 6:18 pm

  A giant which is obviously not for moving around a lot. I like the style and colors, dislike the loft and as usual the loft which leads to a disproportion in the width height ratio. Otherwise well done.

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  • James D. April 5, 2018, 12:33 am

    Well, I would say it actually depends on the operational budget and lifestyle of the owner as to whether it gets moved around a lot or not…

    This thing is only 289 Sq Ft, not counting the loft, and it’s road legal… So no permit required and a 3/4 to 1 ton dually truck should be able to tow it…

    Mind, there are even bigger Class A’s and Fifth Wheelers/Toy Haulers on the roads all the time…

    Tiny Houses can actually go up to around 340 Sq Ft before they start pushing into the special permit required size range… Then they can go to 400 Sq Ft or even up to 500 Sq Ft, as Tiny Houses aren’t limited to 400 Sq Ft like Park Model RV’s are…

    So think of it more as a big mid-size rather than a giant…

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• Tia April 4, 2018, 9:00 pm

  Beautiful! Love the white and dark contrast. I see that it’s 34′ long, but how many square feet is this unit? I’m looking for 2 bedrooms – both ground floor. One for office and one for bedroom. Lofts are wasted space for me as it’s hard to climb stairs and I want to be able to stand up. Maybe one of the bedrooms/office over a goose neck instead?

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  • James D. April 10, 2018, 3:03 pm

    Hey Tia, 5th Wheel/Goosenecks is primarily for making it easier to tow.

    You get standing space over the hitch because that space isn’t being shared with any other vertical space.

    The way it works is because of the road legal limits the structure can only be up to 13′ 6″ high from the ground to the highest point of the roof.

    This leaves up to a max of around 11 feet of interior vertical space for the best optimized structures… Less for those that aren’t…

    So the design has to work with that limit and split the space between everything that is taking up that space.

    Since walking height space requirements are around 6′ 8″ to 7′, this only leaves a few feet for the loft if a standing/walking space is placed below it…

    However, the loft doesn’t have to be placed above… Reverse lofts are exactly that and place the loft below at floor level and what would normally be below above it, resulting in shorter stairs.

    Alternatively, you can opt to not split the vertical space and dedicate it all to one thing but as every square inch can matter in a small space that is not always easy to do without making the structure too long and heavy to be easily towed.

    But you can also share the vertical space with something that doesn’t require a lot of vertical space… Like a storage space or sitting space can then leave you much more vertical space for the loft or bedroom.

    Or you can only use the loft for storage and use a Murphy Bed or Trundle bed to make the space below multi-use. It’s just not for everyone because it can be bothersome to transform a space every single day…

    There’s also options like Elevator beds on up to, if you have the budget for it, to having the entire roof elevated to create a second floor… This would work similar to slide outs but up instead of out to the sides.

    Layouts are more flexible if you don’t need it to be road legal… So it’s easier with a 10-12 feet wide platform to keep everything on the floor level… While, in some places you can even go 14′ wide…

    Overall, consider that a bedroom can require around 70 sq ft to comfortably fit a twin size bed and still have some space for a small closet and space around the bed… Just the bed can reduce this to about 45 sq ft but when working with limited space everything is a trade off and what space you give to anything tends to have to be taken away from something else.

    There are always trade offs to consider and it comes down to what your priorities are and what it will ultimately take to work for you…

    Most don’t prioritize the bed because they will spend very little of their time there and they prioritize other parts of the house more but others have done bedrooms and there’s at least one company that has done a 480 Sq Ft design that offers 3 bedrooms and two baths and still has a kitchen and small living room.

    So, if you need 2 bedrooms it’s possible but it depends on your budget and other factors like whether you need the house to be easily movable or not… And how such decisions effect the rest of the house design…

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• Alex April 5, 2018, 2:27 pm

  Update I got from the builder: The space behind shower is for washer/dryer. There’s also space above to hang your clothes.

  The bed is a queen.

  And the master bedroom’s closet is built into a bump out over the tongue so they didn’t have to use the footprint of the trailer frame for the closet space. GENIUS!!

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• Susan July 26, 2018, 7:58 pm

  Love the 1st floor bedroom, and room for a regular couch. Everything I need. Perfect!

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• KiKi July 27, 2018, 11:41 pm

  The whole point of a tiny house for me would be to not spend so much on a home. For that price I could do much better. It is lovely, though. I love that there is a stand up bedroom downstairs. I could never do a sleeping loft unless I was able to walk around the bed standing up.

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• Shelia March 3, 2019, 7:38 pm

  I love it. Upstybedroom for guests, downstairs privacy for me. The only downside I can see is the temptation to grab a midnight snack on the way back to bed from going to the bathroom.

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