Tiny Houses: A Comprehensive Guide to Living in a Tiny House with Examples and Ideas of Designs

By Gavin Carney

Your Ultimate Guide to the Ins and Outs of Planning the Best Tiny House for Your Budget

If you have seen pictures of tiny houses and were fascinated but did not know how to get started, then this book is for you. This book is your definitive guide to realizing the dream of one day moving into your own tiny house. This book contains everything that you need to know about turning your dream of tiny house ownership into a reality.
In this book, you will find detailed information about every phase of tiny house planning and building. You will learn the difference between mobile tiny houses and tiny houses on foundations. You will find out about building codes, zoning, titling, and insuring your tiny house. This book is full of details that are invaluable to planning your living space, such as how to choose a toilet, what kind of heater do you need, and the advantages of including a loft. There are many books full of pretty pictures but this book is full of information and advice that you can use. If you are serious about financing, planning, designing, and building your tiny house, then this comprehensive guide will help you every step of the way. 

Tiny Houses: A Comprehensive Guide to Living in a Tiny House with Examples and Ideas of Designs is your ultimate guide to the ins and outs of planning the best tiny house for your budget. Whether you plan to purchase or build your house from the ground up, this book will be your guide every step of the way. Full of advice and recommendations to guarantee your success, this is the book you need to read before you get started building your own tiny house. 

Within this book's pages, you'll find the answers to these questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics covered include

- The appeal of the tiny house

- The good and the bad

- Getting started

- A tiny house on wheels

- A tiny house on a foundation

- Build or purchase

- Important details

- A lofty question

- How to plan your floorplan

- Tiny house plans

- Building your tiny house

- Fitting into your tiny house

- And more!

Get this book now to learn more about Tiny Houses!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gavin Carney
• Release date: Jun 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393623458

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Introduction

I want to thank you and commend you for downloading the book, Tiny Houses: A Comprehensive Guide to Living in a Tiny House with Examples and Ideas of Designs

If you have seen pictures of tiny houses and were fascinated but did not know how to get started, then this book is for you. This book is your definitive guide to realizing the dream of one day moving into your own tiny house. This book contains everything that you need to know about turning your dream of tiny house ownership into a reality.

In this book, you will find detailed information about every phase of tiny house planning and building. You will learn the difference between mobile tiny houses and tiny houses on foundations. You will find out about building codes, zoning, titling, and insuring your tiny house. This book is full of details that are invaluable to planning your living space, such as how to choose a toilet, what kind of heater do you need, and the advantages of including a loft. There are many books full of pretty pictures but this book is full of information and advice that you can use. If you are serious about financing, planning, designing, and building your tiny house, then this comprehensive guide will help you every step of the way.

Tiny Houses: A Comprehensive Guide to Living in a Tiny House with Examples and Ideas of Designs is your ultimate guide to the ins and outs of planning the best tiny house for your budget. Whether you plan to purchase or build your house from the ground up, this book will be your guide every step of the way. Full of advice and recommendations to guarantee your success, this is the book you need to read before you get started building your own tiny house.

Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 1 - The appeal of the tiny house

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

–John Maeda

In recent years, there has been a surge of interest in tiny houses. This interest in designing, building and living in tiny houses has become so popular so quickly that it has even been called a movement. People are downsizing from large sprawling houses or are never even buying them at all. There seems to be a change in the attitude and outlook of the modern house builder and buyer, and that change is tiny houses.

What exactly is a tiny house? A tiny house is defined as any home that contains less than 400 square feet and costs $20,000 to $50,000 to build or own. Although this is the definition of a tiny house, most people who design or purchase tiny houses consider any residential structure less than 500 square feet to fall into that category. There is some debate as to whether houses over 500 but under 1000 square feet can be considered tiny, especially by those in the movement

Tiny houses include many different styles and construction methods. There are stick-built homes that look like miniature versions of larger timber dwellings. Some tiny houses resemble fairy tale cottages or grown up-sized play houses. There is a movement inside the tiny house movement itself to repurpose giant metal shipping containers as the basis for contemporary tiny houses. Tiny houses can have porches and some even have a second floor or loft. Some tiny houses are on the grid and some are ecologically 100% green with solar panels and composting toilets. Some tiny houses are built by construction companies, some are prefabricated and others are build entirely by hand by their owners. Some are even mobile