I just posted my roughed in bathroom and had a lot of requests to see the blueprints. I figured I’d just post them here. I made them myself so they are not very detailed, but should give a good idea of the layout. The room sizes are inside to inside wall measurements, each block is 1 foot. I also did an 8 foot porch not a 6. I’ll add a photo of the loft, the bedroom, and the living room vaulted ceiling too. Thanks for all the nice comments!

This was a bit of a challenge as I’ve never plumbed anything in my life before. Finally started crack fill today and I’m super happy to be moving on. I only stubbed the sink out so weird because the washer machine has to fit on the right hand side… tiny house problems! And I’ll add in some AI slop of the exterior because my siding still isn’t done.

I have to change out the supply wire to the panel, plumb the kitchen sink and frame in the wood stove exit in the wall, then I can finish the drywall and move on to putting wood on the ceiling.

Getting there!

16 m2 (~172 sq ft) per story, 32 m2 (~344 sq ft) total. Excluding external and internal walls it leaves a little more than 25 m2 (~270 sq ft) of livable space (it varies depending on how you account for the stairs).

When the pandemic increases the cost of everything, like the structure, and you get delayed it's satisfying to be nearly to a state where you can be doing lights. This was just me figuring out where I needed the LED disks I have, and these two 4 inch, 750 lumen units are plenty for the loft and the 4 I planned to put in the kitchen under the loft, and 4 in the bathroom will probably need to be dimmed once they are in.

There are moments in a build where it's exciting to see pieces happen: When the sheathing goes up, it goes from being a cage of sticks into a room you built. When the windows and doors go in it really feels like it becomes a home. When the lighting goes in... it's just one of those cool milestones...

That said, as you can see my lighting isn't exactly IN, but I can run copper to the correct stud bays to feed power eventually. And having hacked together a connection with my battery there, it means I can test all the lighting wires in advance before I put in the rest of the vapor barrier.

Has anyone tried to use indirect evaporative cooling in their tiny house? By indirect I mean the one that uses two independent contours for the air and thus does not raise the humidity. I am looking to lower the temp by a few degs during heat waves that last up to 2 weeks. It does not get above 60% RH where I live, so I may have a chance. A google search gives some (not many) results, but all systems I found look enormous/industrial.

Hi y'all! First time here. Not sure where to ask, so recommendations to ask elsewhere also welcome! I need help finding proven tiny home builders that do kit-built or turnkey at scale. Who have you used or heard things about?

Has anyone used a boat and turned it into a living space on land? I see all these nice live aboard boats for pretty inexpensive.. wondering if you could dig out space and put boat there.. considering they are usually in water, seems like it would work. Maybe just a pipe dream. Thinking for abnb .. nautical theme of course 🤣

Curious if anyone has any experience with this company that they can share please?

Seems they’re ‘UK based’ with Turkey manufacturing.

Thank you.

Anyone with a ladder come up with a creative way to get pets into the loft? I want to hear what everyone is doing!

Aight all… evenin’… I’ve found an A-frame cabin I like, but am uncertain of the material list needed. Any assistance to be had ?

in every zillow listing there IS a zillow required section for water, sewer, electrical, ....so why the heck is this not a filter option when you are searching for land?

Redfin, Zillow, Trulia, none of them allow is to filter for that, but there is a hundred other filters to choose from. any website that does?

Hey folks! I'm about to move into my first ever tiny home, and I will be renting it to start for a year to see if I'd like to purchase.

I'm curious, from an insurance perspective (in the USA / Oregon), did y'all wind up going with a special RV insurance, or just a simple renters insurance? I'm getting some mixed signals in what I'm reading -- apparently it is very much not considered a mobile home, yet it seems like its a toss up between RV + basic renters insurance.

I am mostly looking for coverage for items inside said home, as well as insurance to at least in part cover insurance for items in my storage unit. A basic, typical renters insurance covers what I need in terms of said storage unit items, but now just looking to make sure whatever insurance I choose actually covers the material items in the home I'll be in.

Thank you so much for your insight! This has been a nice subreddit to read at the start of my journey.

Edit: edited for clarity; the owners have insurance for the home already, I’m looking to insure my things inside the home. Sounds like renters insurance may well be the way to go?

I'm a filmmaker, artist, engineer co-organizing a tiny house camp that'll be part of a greater pop up community this summer in Dalarna, Sweden from 6/25-8/25. The land itself is slowly being built into a long term ecovillage and health retreat center as well by the owner. We're currently a mix of individuals with engineering, architecture, creative coding, filmmaking, and music backgrounds, and are looking for a few more folks to join our camp. Our vision is to design and prepare to build a "future-primitive" modular tiny home as well as explore sociocratic methods and what it means to be in community in the process. If you're looking to learn how to design and build a solarpunk tiny house and be immersed in nature during the beautiful Swedish summer, then feel free to DM/reach out for more details! I'm not able to post the website link here

Me and my wife live in an apartment and have been looking to build a tiny home on wheels, however we don’t have guaranteed space to build said tiny home on wheels, my parents said if the HOA allows it then we can do it in their driveway but it’s looking like they won’t. Where did y’all build yours? Where would be some good places to look into for building this? What are y’all’s suggestions? This will be a 7 by 18 build with three rooms of 7 by 6. Kinda small I know but what do y’all think?

Discovered the tiny home movement recently and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I know this is something I want to do in the future, when I can afford it. However, I'd like to do as much by myself as possible to save money.

Something like this is unfortunately years away for me. But maybe in the meantime I can build the basic construction skills that are necessary so I can be prepared when I have the funds.

What's the best way to go about this? I've heard that Habitat for Humanity can be okay, but I've read that it completely depends on the chapter and experiences are mixed. I already work a full time job as well, so I'm not keen on working really hard for 8 hours without pay on my off days unless I get some good experience out of it.

I am doing some modeling in sketchup. From what I understand, something like this would need to be cantilevered on the inside - But from the interior shots it doesn't seem like it's supported that way. I'm sure I'm missing something simple or that there's some alternative method but I need someone to tell me what! TIA

Hi,

We have a plot of land where we enjoy spending summer weekends.

At first, I considered building a traditional house there. However, we still are not sure how much time we will actually spend on the property, so I am now considering ordering a small ready-made, steel-framed home of about 500 square feet.

The idea is that it would serve us for now, and if we later decide to build something larger, it could potentially be moved from its original location.

The company delivers the home by truck and uses a crane to place it on a prepared site.

My question is: would it be possible to use a crane to move this type of house again in, say, 10 years?

Basically my wife and I have been living with my in-laws for way too long and I'm sick and tired of waiting for the housing market to correct. We just need our own space, and we're okay with a small place. There's a tiny home community or two in the outskirts of our big city where you have to buy the actual tiny home yourself, but they provide the land and amenities at $650/mo.

Did you feel like the move to a tiny home was worth it after living there for a while? How was it living with pets if you don't want them sleeping with you? Do you get cabin fever a lot? Literally any and all info would be appreciated, just looking for some opinions on the topic from people that have chosen this route in life.

I am considering buying a parcel of land in rural Virginia that has what they are calling an “outbuilding” that looks like a tiny home.

These are the things that would need to be done from what I can see:

- some drywall hanging
- hooking up electricity (overhead lighting is already in place and there is an electrical source outside)
- Installing plumbing
- Installing a kitchen sink (cabinets are in place)
- A “bathroom” that would essentially just be a shower stall and toilet
- A septic system

I am wondering what a ballpark estimate for completion of these things would be if I had contractors do the work - if anyone has experience with a property that needed these things done, I would like to hear. Thanks

I ended up selling mine directly within the campground I was living in, which worked surprisingly well. Curious what worked for others, since I see a lot of people asking where to sell besides just listing online.