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Simple How to Build a Tiny Home using our Tiny House Plans!

 

After many requests for our how-to-build tiny house plans, here they finally are! We’ve been living in our Tiny House for over a year now – and we love it! We’ve named her Lucy, and she’s beautiful 🙂

 

If you think our tiny house is beautiful too and you would like one just like her – these framing plans will show you how it’s done with our easy-to-follow How to Build a Tiny House plans.

 

 What Are You Getting When You Buy Our How to Build Tiny House Plans?

 

If you purchase these tiny house framing plans we’ll show you both 2D and 3D pictures for the framing of the entire tiny trailer house. That includes the subfloor, bottom floor, top floor, loft, and roof. Also included is the Google Sketch-up file for these plans so that you can play around and make any modifications you might want to make. The plans are provided in both metric and imperial units.

 

Here’s a selection of pages included in Lucy’s plans to give you an example of how we’ve done the drawings…

 

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Lucy’s Basic Measurements

 

These tiny trailer house plans are based on the trailer we used for lucy. The trailer measures 7.2m by 2.4m (23’7.5″ by 7’10.5″) giving a floor area of 17.3m2 (186 sqft) and are rated to carry 3.5 tonnes. The total height of the timber framing is 3743mm (12’3″). It was designed for the additional height of the trailer and roof cladding to be below 4.25m (13’11”) the legal limit in New Zealand. As far as we are aware, this would make it legal in most other countries.

 

These framing plans were designed by us after researching how to build using timber framing. They have worked beautifully for us. However, they were not drawn by an architect and they haven’t been checked by an engineer.

 

Framing plans come as a 44-page pdf file which requires adobe acrobat or similar to view. Also available for download is a copy of the 3d model as an skp file. You will need the free google sketch-up to use this file. After purchasing you will be taken to a page with the framing plans and the sketch-up model which you can download immediately.

 

Customize The Internal Space To Suit Your Life

 

These framing plans give you the structure for this tiny house… What you do once the framing is done is up to you. How would you customize the space in your tiny house? This is what we have done, and you could do the same…

 

Seat 8 People in The Spacious Lounge

 

We’ve comfortably had 8 adults seated in our tiny house. The corner couch is built to seat 6, the armchair seats one more and the bottom step of the storage stairs doubles as an extra seat for the 8th person. Friends always comment on how cozy and comfortable the space is – visitors often say they don’t want to leave!

 

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Work From Home (Like Shayne Does) Thanks to a Dedicated Office Space

 

Shayne runs an online recovery program for women who have bulimia. Most of the work is computer-based and with our little baby Hazel to look after it makes sense to work from home. We’ve set up dedicated office space so that Shaye can easily juggle being a mom and helping the women in her program.

 

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Cook up a storm in the functional (but beautiful!) Kitchen

 

One thing that always amazes us about our tiny house is how easy it is to use our kitchen. Prior to living in here, we rented a studio that was 4 times the size of Lucy. Despite being bigger, the kitchen was awful to use! It felt seriously tiny. Lucy is a far smaller building but her kitchen is well designed and feels large. We often cook meals together and it’s just awesome 🙂

 

And check out our convenient ‘Mason Jar Sized’ Storage Designed Into The Internal Stud Wall. This is actually part of the framing and so you’ll see it included in Lucy’s internal framing plans.

 

Stretch Out in The Shower – It’s Full Size!

We may live in a tiny house but we did not want a tiny shower! Lucy’s bathroom is large enough for a full-sized shower so that we can stretch out and wash away the mud from the hours we spend in the garden 🙂

… And there’s plenty of space for whatever style toilet you choose – flushing or composting. We also built in some storage for bathroom essentials and a washing basket.

 

Snuggle Up In The Spacious Sleeping Loft

We love sleeping up in the loft. It’s spacious enough to comfortably sit up (Tom is 6 foot and there is space to spare) but at the same time, it’s super cozy. Our beautiful little girl Hazel sleeps in her Moses basket beside us. And if you’re wondering if there’s space to do ‘other’ things in the loft… Of course – how do you think Hazel was made? Okay TMI, sorry!!

 

Keep Your Tiny House Tidy Thanks To Ample Storage Space

Shaye was convinced she would accidentally kill herself if we accessed the loft via a ladder… so for her, it was a total No-No. We decided to use storage stairs instead and think it’s one of the most awesome features of our house.

 

We also decided to utilize the lounge area by adding a corner couch containing six large drawers beneath. Our ottoman also opens up for yet more storage!

 

We also have an additional ‘Mini-Loft’ Perfect for those ‘extra’ things that you don’t use as often. (Like the pre-pregnancy clothes that Shaye says she will fit one day again 😉 The mini storage loft is part of the framing, so you’ll see it included in Lucy’s loft framing plans.

 

Large Windows and a French Door Keep The House Light and Airy

When people walk into our tiny house, one of the first things they say (after “I could live here!”) is, “It’s so light and airy!”. This is thanks to the beautiful french door and large windows – which is quite uncommon in other tiny houses we’ve seen. We’ve added a little porch outside our French door which makes for a nice indoor/outdoor flow.

 

High Ceilings Make The Tiny House Feel Grand!

The funny thing about our tiny house is that the ceilings are actually higher than in any of our friend’s houses! The standard ceiling height is 2.4 meters (7.8 feet), and the ceiling height over Lucy’s lounge/office area is over 3 meters (9.8 feet)! This makes our tiny house feel MUCH bigger than it is!

 

Live A Happy Life 🙂

“There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.” – That’s what tiny house living is all about… Being happy and satisfied with the simple blessings in life. Getting rid of all the ‘fluff’ in your life allows you to focus on your simple blessings and enjoy them every day.

 

By requiring less, you require less money. This enables you to spend fewer hours working and more time doing what you love most. Or, as in our case – it enables us to work in jobs we love (Shaye is a bulimia recovery mentor, and Tom is currently learning to be a natural builder) – we don’t earn as much as we would if we got work in our trained fields – but that’s okay… We have more than enough, thanks to how we live – part of which is Tiny House Living.

 

Our little family might live in a tiny house – but we live a happy life 🙂

 

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This tiny house design-build video workshop shows how simple it is…

 

Here’s the link to the best tiny house plans available today. If you want the very best in tiny house plans you are going to have to pay a little more but they are well worth the investment if you want your home built right. See Tumbleweed  Tiny House Plans Here!

 

Very nice! I would love to see your tiny house but we live up here in Montana. I have a dream of building something like this someday.

 

The Tumbleweed workshop covers:

  • The step-by-step design process
  • Plans for the tiny house I built
  • Alternative designs and materials
  • Get through building sticking points
  • Where to get inspiration
  • Translate your paper drawings to Google Sketch Up
  • Create your shopping list and cut costs
  • How to work with a trailer
  • The one step you can’t complete alone and how to do the rest
  • Plenty of mistakes to avoid
  • Even electrical and plumbing are covered
  • Where to go for help

 

Fellow Tiny House Enthusiast,

 

Seeing my tumbleweed tiny house pull out of the driveway and around the corner, I wondered if I might feel the same way someday seeing a child go off to college for the first time.

 

Then the doubts crept in… will the trailer hold up? Will the siding hold up? Will something break? Will that old suburban make the trip?

 

If you’re thinking of building a tiny house, I can relate. I’ve actually done it.

 

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And I made some mistakes

 

Some, I caught before it was too late. Some I didn’t. Some were easy to fix. Some cost a few extra bucks I would have rather not had to shell out.

 

If you’re planning to build a tiny house, learn from others’ mistakes. Personally, I wish there had been more resources available.

 

I got the books and read the websites. I could have invested the $475 plus travel for the live workshop but I didn’t. I figured I wasn’t trying to build an expensive tiny house so why bother?

 

Dream BIG, go tiny at a 2-Day Tumbleweed workshop. Find a Tumbleweed workshop near you today.

 

The resource I wished I’d had

 

I’ve since gotten a set of official tiny house plans from Tumbleweed after so many trials and errors trying to build on my own, I haven’t looked back since. They were the best plans found anywhere on the web.

 

My trailer was slightly different. I would have wanted to have made alterations. There was no information on alternate materials. I don’t want a dang boat heater in Texas but I do want an AC unit.

 

Don’t get me wrong. If I were going to hire someone to build a tiny house to look exactly like a certain style, I would have wanted those plans for the contractor to follow. But I’m no contractor and in the end, I could have had Tumbleweed build it for me cheaper and faster.

 

I’d argue what makes tiny houses unique from everything else are that you build them individually for individuals. No one will be mass-producing them for the foreseeable future. Each one is custom-tailored and one set of plans can only take you so far.

 

I was no expert

 

I’d never used a miter saw (aka chop saw) before I started this project. I’d seen one used and I knew how to use a circular saw so I figured that was good enough. I knew if I started and kept working, I’d eventually figure it out.

 

I didn’t know about framing, drywall, wiring, or plumbing. I figured it all out along the way. And I made some boneheaded mistakes along the way. You’ll have my experience to build on to save yourself the frustration.

 

At first glance, I questioned whether I had anything to share since I’m not a contractor or design professional of any kind. Then I realized that’s exactly where many tiny housebuilders start out. Maybe they’d see that if I could do it, you can too.

 

Now that I’ve finished, I went back and created the resource I wish I’d had before I started building.

 

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