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Sorry, but there is just no way that this house has a footprint of 104sqft. In support, it is important to point out that a 10ft wide by 10ft long room is 100sqft. Are you really suggesting that two bedrooms fit into the even smaller upstairs loft of the house also within the roughly 10 by 10 foot space? Moreover, are we to believe that all of this fits into the space that “Tumbleweed Tiny Houses” claims to contain in their buildings?

Look, I have a 10ft by 12 ft 120sqft accessory building in my backyard, and from personal design experience, I can tell you that you will be hard pressed to fit a table and chairs, stairs, a bathroom, an entry closet, a couple of more living room chairs, a wall of storage and a kitchen counter into a room of that size.

I often trawl the internet and other sources for cutting edge tiny house design. I dig it; it’s my thing, and there’s not allot out there. This looks like a very well designed space that deserves major accolades for its timely, visionary, and user-friendly design. I love it, but it isn’t 104sqft. The future is all about small. Live it!

Thanks for being so astute, Andrew and Joe. I should have fact checked this last night! You are right, it’s about 460 square feet.

I wonder when are all this cool projects stop being just projects?! I’ve been searching deeply in the web for new house design, specially prefab and I found some really good ideias. There’s just one problem: they are so damn expensive! I’m trying to build my home, here at Portugal – Europe and I just can find something afordable. It’s amazing… (on the bad side).

That is a very minimalist looking house. However, it does need some colour. That staircase is not exactly very safe is it? Definitely not to be attempted on cloudy days, without the light on.

Great Start.. needs more…

15 x 30 = 450 square feet. Double that with a second floor and the house is small but habitable. This design is very sleek and has great asthetic value. It also seems to use cost effective materials to maximum effect. Are those fibrous cement boards, cladding the exterior… and are they screwed, or bolted, into the frame ? Is it a steel ‘moment’ frame, or wood ? What material was used as roofing ? Some points:
(1) Those stairs are cool, but they would benefit from having white oak treds bolted on, with rounded forward edges. Bare metal will hurt when someone stubbs their toes.
(2) Not having a bathroom on the 2nd floor, to compliment the 2 bedrooms, is a serious oversight. And there seems to be room for one directly over the 1st floor bath ?
(3) Where is the Launry/Utility room, alcove, or closet ?
(4) Having 3 stories would have been much better. How much more could that have cost ? The 3rd story/attic space could have been left largely unfinished to start. A finish it later kind of thing.
(5) If kept to only 2 storys, having a 9′ ceiling height on the 1st floor, and a 10′ height for the 2nd floor would have been nice.

All in all a great start. These designers have amazing promise. I expetc more great things from them.

Richie K

This is a beautiful design, but still makes the mistake of using traditional building methods.
I too have been searching for very small living spaces, and am pretty much resigned to just doing it myself.
Why aren’t small houses designed around the modular concept?
The central module being the one with the utilities, which you then plug the others in to. (or stack, or assemble)
This is not only portable, but cheaper and more efficient.
Frankly, I am sick of small houses for rich people ! !