This design was inspired by a little house in Pacific Grove, California, that we rented for a few days. The main distinguishing feature was the bay window up front. The original house was about 10-feet wide and 40-feet long. My tiny house adaptation has been scaled down to about 8-feet by 28-feet. It can be built on or off a trailer.
I’ve not seen too many tiny house plans for such a long house. Most of the longest tiny houses are 20-feet which reflects the longest length for easily available trailers. 28-foot trailers are out there but small in number and probably a special order. I would suggest looking for manufacturers of enclosed triple-axle 28-foot double car haulers and then asking them to build one without the enclosure.
The length can be shortened too… in case you like the look of the front facade but want a shorter home. The walls, floor, loft, and roof are simply framed 16-inches on-center so it would be very easy to adapt these plans to whatever length you wanted. By the same token you could also make it longer.
Like most of my plans these cost just $9.95 and show how the house goes together in a step-by-step process. I’ve included some key 3D illustrations in the plans that show the details for how the front bay window is created. Below are some samples from the plans.
Update 1/1/2012: Version 1.1 released with the addition of 8 sample floor plans.
Do you have a diagram of the floor plan? Also, how do you access the loft (stairs or ladder)?
I’m looking for a plan with a max footprint of 215sf so I can see that this one could easily be adapted.
I didn’t include a floor plan in the plans – just the exterior walls, floor, roof and loft.
Stairs in a tiny houses probably wouldn’t work well – most folks use a simple ladder.
I have a very hard time deciding if I want to order the plans if i can’t see the floorplan on any of these designs. The floorplan is the deciding factor for me.
Excellent info Lisa. I’ll definitely work floorplans into future updates. Thanks!
Would love to see the floor plan. The outside is cute, but the outside isn’t very important to me compared to the layout.
I also would like to see what the inside looks like before we buy the plans. Can you please email me a quick look of the rooms inside? Thanks.
Are you aware of any plans that have been developed for those wishing to build a tiny house on a 5th wheel trailer. I would like to do this and put the sleeping area above as is usually done with those.
Thank you.
Not to be redundant, but I’d like to echo everyone else’s comments. I thoroughly enjoy what I see, but a floor plan is the number one thing I am looking for in deciding what plans to purchase for my future home. Normally I wouldn’t even bother commenting and would simply look at the next site, but I feel that if you simply posted the floor plans what you’re offering fits my needs better than anything else out there.
Are the plans for a finished house or just the shell? If just a shell with the allowance for customizing it on your own, then there would really be no need for floor plans. The overhead view should suffice if the plans do not have a finished interior. Seems to me that most of us would prefer laying this out according to our individual needs.