Cute house plans

Those are really neat. I would think you could build them somewhat bigger without much problem as they are basically two boxes on top of each other.

 

Thanks for the link! I'm really impressed. I had never considered building
a tiny house on the bed of a cargo trailer. I am suddenly very inspired and
would like to try this idea. (*sounds of wheels turning*)

I especially like the aesthetics and how it looks like a real cottage...well, it is.

Mike

 

I WANT that Rolling Gothic- that's SO cool.

Mike, if you try it, tell me how it goes!

Chalet (an RV company) makes a travel trailer like this, but not as cool.

Cait

 

375 square foot. That's a box 15 X 25. I wonder if 375 is the footprint or TOTAL square foot!? If it is the total, that makes the house really only 12-1/2 X 15!! Whew!

 

My guess is that it is (2) boxes that are 12 x 16 each and that is very small but it must be xtremely efficient!

Tim
Knoxville

 

I'll bet you are right. I looked again, and assuming a bathtub is 5' long, that makes it about right -- scale-wise.

Geesh! Look at the prices! I can build a full-sized house for that much!

 

These are clever little houses particularly the idea of mounting them on a trailer, but they are based on the Chatauqua cottages built in the 19th century at Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard and similar campgrounds. Many of those cottages started out as two room structures with lots of gingerbread and many of them were glorified tents on frames. Heres a link about Oak Bluffs. http://www.mvinfo.com/html/towns/oakbluffs.htm

 

Built-ins are definitely the way to go! Our house in Toledo was barely 1000 sq. ft., but we had all kinds of built-in dresser drawers, cupboards, etc. The bedrooms were small, but there was plenty of room because of the built-in drawers. I only had one regular dresser and it was antique and in the hall mostly for decoration. Our house we have now is over twice as large but acutally seems smaller. We have only two closets in the whole house and had to get lots more dressers, chests, etc. to keep clothes, sheets, towels, and other linens in. After living with minimal furniture for so long, this house seems kind of cluttered-up with furniture. In the future, we want to build a small house and we will definitely include built-in furniture--dressers, cupboards, window seats that double as chests, a built-in booth for eating, etc.

Did you follow some of the links and see the pocket neighborhood cottages built near Seattle? The cottages were adorable, but the prices! $200,000-$300,000+!!! And they still had to pay a fee because they were run like condominiums! But, the cottages were so cute and I got a lot of good ideas.

 

I wonder why the smaller houses are so expensive? Does anyone know?

 

If you go to this website www.countryplans.com/plans.html they have different plans for small houses. You can actually buy the blueprints but I plan on figuring it out myself. Lot of inspiration there. Sorta plain on the outside but I figure you can get the inspirations from the tumbleweed house site to dress it up later as you get more money. Just a thought!
If we are able to buy a larger piece of land I'll be building the 16 X 24 w/ loft then building the main house a couple years after. If we buy a smaller piece of property I'll build the 20X32 with loft.
The first scenario we'll be staying for many years, the second scenario we'll by selling in a few years to afford a larger piece of property.