Spend the Night in a Tumbleweed Tiny House
I’ve always thought that tiny houses would make an excellent vacation rentals. Now you can stay the night in one of the nicest tiny houses ever designed, the Tumbleweed Fencl.
The Fencl measures just 130 square feet, has a tiny functional kitchen, bathroom, and queen-size loft bed. The interior is finished in wood and heat is provided by a tiny propane fireplace. Learn more about the Tumbleweed Fencl at The Lodge and reserve an overnight stay.
To learn more about the design and buy plans visit the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company.
Below is a video that shows this very tiny house under construction.
What a good idea!
Wow, but did you see what they’re charging? It looks like $250/night?!
Yikes. I missed that part.
$250.00 a NIGHT! That almost $2.00/sq.ft.! No way. What a terrible way to promote a good idea. Profiteering in the extreme.
$250 a night does seem a bit steep. But I suspect this has more to do with “The Lodge” and the local going rate for lodging.
And they charge a fee just to “tour” the thing!
To me, this goes against the whole idea of living within one’s means. They won the house in a contest. Free. So they just are trying to make a huge profit off the whole Tiny House idea rather than promote it. Tours should be free. Why charge? They got the thing for nothing anyway. I understand charging to stay in it but $250 a NIGHT!
Once again, making an extra buck ruins a good intention.
So I had to check on that ‘tour fee’ thing. It’s a free tour during part of the day and they charge a fee for times outside that window. ‘They’ are the people that manage ‘The Lodge’.
Jay does a free open house each month in Sebastopol, California. When Jay has gone on the road his tours have always been free.
I understand it’s not Jeff charging the fee.I just think that The Lodge is making a lot of money off of something they got for nothing. Maybe the going rate for lodging in the area is $250.00 a night. I’ve never been there.
Still, isn’t the idea behind the Tiny House movement to live within one’s means? I might can afford to build a tiny house if I save my money, but I can’t afford to pay $250 to try one out for one night. There are probably some other people like me out there as well.
Sounds like The Lodge is using it as a novelty to attract wealthy tourists rather than promoting and demonstrating the idea to the people who really need it. But it is their house, which they got for free, so I guess they can profit from it as they see fit. Too bad it couldn’t have been used in a way that would be more accessible to the average person.
RE: “Isn’t the idea behind the Tiny House movement to live within one’s means?”
That’s a big part of it and one I advocate all the time. But I also try to promote the idea of diversity. Tumbleweeds are very very nice houses, incredibly nice, nicer than most people want to afford.
Some folks can afford them, many more can afford to build them. But I think their true value is in the story they tell and that Jay really proved how livable tiny houses are by spending years living in them.
So while $250 a night seems high for staying in a tiny house for a night, I don’t think this one house detracts from the lesson they offer us.
I actually hope the popularity inspires others to build tiny house vacation rentals. The more of these we see out there the more people will have the opportunity to experience living in something so small.
I also agree with you on wishing this one was cheaper.
That’s quite expensive but I hope that this gives others ideas/inspiration to make use of tiny houses in unique ways like this (but at a more reasonable price)
I agree it’s too expensive. But if you promote small, well built houses don’t get caught up in counting $/sq ft/night. If its a good place it can be worth a highish price (but not $250!).
I don’t think The Lodge is really promoting the house as an example of an alternative style of living as much as a “cute” room for people to stay in for a night.
Maybe it will generate sales among those who can afford $250 a night to try it. I guess the folks who can’t afford that steep rate will just have to use their imagination.
Even though I have seen many small houses this one is probably the tiniest one. It could be really great vacation rental but the price is just too high for such small space. Anyway very good idea.
Holy priciness Batman! Or “Zoinks”! as Shaggy would say…..
Can’t fault Jay though….
and if anyone wants to stay in my shack, its only $249 a night! Kidding….
-Deek
Relaxshacks.com
The $250 per night is actually for a standard room in the lodge as well as the Fencl. It cannot be hooked up to utilities where it is so you get a room in the lodge to do your business. The $250 is slightly higher than a room rate at the lodge. It does seem high but on the positive…you get a room and the Fencl. It does kind of defeat the purpose of trying out a tiny house if you can’t really try the whole thing out. I met one of the owners of the lodge during the initial free tour and she does seem to be genuine about the experience and not just trying to capitalize or promote their lodge.