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Tiny house gets extra girth for spacious apartment-like interior

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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home has a roomy almost apartment-like 520 sq ft (48 sq m) interior layout
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home is based on a triple-axle trailer and finished in board and batten siding, with cedar accenting
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home features two large storage areas outside
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home gets power from a standard RV-style hookup
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home looks light-filled inside thanks to its generous glazing, which includes four skylights
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Much of Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home's ground floor is taken up by its spacious central kitchen
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes a snug living room with a sofa and a TV, plus a neat suspended chair
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home has two loft bedrooms, which are reached by storage-integrated staircases
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home has a roomy almost apartment-like 520 sq ft (48 sq m) interior layout
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The kitchen in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home has quite a lot of storage space for a tiny house
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The kitchen in Jen’s 34' x 10' Tiny Home contains an oven with four-burner propane-powered stove, sink, fridge/freezer
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The bathroom in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes a soaking tub
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The bathroom in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes a composting toilet
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The bathroom in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home has storage space for clothing
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The main bedroom in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes a skylight and a king-sized bed, plus some storage space
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The secondary bedroom in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes some storage space, a skylight and a bed
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Mitchcraft Tiny Homes, the firm behind the pint-sized Nicole's 16 x 8 Tiny Home, recently completed another interesting model that's far more spacious. Named Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home, it provides a remarkably roomy interior layout that measures 520 sq ft (48 sq m) and is centered around an impressively large and light-filled kitchen.

As is evident from the model name, the latest Mitchcraft build has a length of 34 ft (10.3 m) and a width of 10 ft (3 m), which is an increase over the standard 8.5 ft (2.5 m) for a towable tiny house and helps lend the home more of an apartment-type feel. It does, however, also mean the owner will need a permit if they want to tow it on a standard US road.

The tiny house is based on a triple-axle trailer and finished in board and batten, with cedar accenting and two large storage areas accessed from outside. Visitors enter through glass doors next to the kitchen area, which has generous glazing, including a pair of solar powered skylights that are controlled with a remote. The kitchen looks well-proportioned for a tiny house and contains an oven with four-burner propane-powered stove, sink, fridge/freezer, a lot of cabinetry, and a useful circular table that doubles as a work desk and has some storage for printers and office tools.

Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes a snug living room with a sofa and a TV, plus a neat suspended chair
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The living room is situated to one side of the kitchen, and contains a sofa, a TV and an electric fireplace, plus a suspended chair and some storage. Over on the opposite side of the kitchen to the living room is the bathroom, which packs in yet more storage space, this time for clothes, plus a nice little soaker tub, a composting toilet, sink, and a combination washing machine and dryer

There are two bedrooms in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home, both of which are reached by a storage-integrated staircase. The main bedroom is situated above the bathroom and has a king-sized bed, some storage, and another skylight. The secondary loft, meanwhile, is above the living room and serves as a room for the owner's child. It has some storage space, yet another skylight and a bed.

The main bedroom in Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home includes a skylight and a king-sized bed, plus some storage space
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Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home serves as full-time home, it gets power from a standard RV-style hookup and MitchCraft Tiny Homes says that to build another like it would cost around US$220,000.

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7 comments
vince
A better way to make a tiny home and keep footprint as small as possible it to utilize the space below the frame which holds the wheels/axles and use an elevator instead of a stairwell and expand the home from 8.5'x20'x13' to 8.5'x20'x16' by having the top pop up like they have RV's that pop out and having the wheels slide out to the ends of the trailer and then slowly (hydraulically) rise up the sides to lower the tiny home to ground level. Then the total height is 16' and you have two full floors to work with or 340 sf. this allows you to put 2 bedrooms up with a bath and in lower level a kitchen, living room and office. OF course if you have it expand out like an RV as well as up you can expand that to over 500 sf with two floors and you won't need a special permit to haul it on the highways.
Username
Am I the only one who finds the description of these things as spacious a bit tiring?
Jinpa
A common risk for this kind of structure, shared with every other manufactured home, is vulnerability to high winds in storms of several kinds. After Hurricane Andrew, Florida has required every mobile home to be anchored with cables to ground stays, e.g, augurs turned in to solid ground. The question here is whether this maker has provided anchor points for buyers to comply with that requirement, which every state should have, and every occupant should want to use.
Joy Parr
I've both holidayed extensively and and lived in caravans.
Towing economically requires lightweight structures, not masses of woodwork, which is why caravans are built the way they are. _One_ axle's worth of weight, not three, lol.
And it also requires that everything inside is easily stowed away instead of smashing itself to bits on the first bend. Please see the Top Gear episode featuring Jane Hathaway's cottage for details of what will happen inside any of these efforts.
These 'tiny homes' are absurd designer nonsense with zero practical value.
And almost a quarter mil? Are they totally nuts or whut? Hahaha!
Unsold
This is really nice, although for one or two persons, that's a LOT of kitchen. I don't think 10' or 12' wide tiny houses are a bad thing as they're only transported to where they'll be on a permanent basis. I always thought the 8' wide restriction was a mite tight, and a standard travel trailer makes more sense if you're wanting to be mobile if only for a reduction in drag... Then there's cost. It's getting harder to find a good one under six figures unless you build it yourself. Probably best anyway.
Cindy Rissal
Oh my! This house is spectacular! I think I saw a fireplace in the living room, & the kitchen is huge for a tiny house! It checks all my boxes (except for a walk-in tub...). I wanna move right in!!
PAV
Jen's 34' x 10' Tiny Home would be a nightmare to sleep in. Low ceilings so hot your head and forget about stretching. But that is not even the worst part the worst part is that you cannot sleep in because there's too much light coming in much much too much light coming in how can somebody sleep like that?