Tiny Free House » floor plans http://www.tinyfreehouse.com Searching for the true value of a home... Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:45:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Trailer Informs The Floor Plan http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2008/08/13/the-trailer-informs-the-floor-plan/ http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/2008/08/13/the-trailer-informs-the-floor-plan/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:38:21 +0000 Michael Janzen http://www.tinyfreehouse.com/?p=82 Last weekend I got dusty and sun burned testing a bunch of theories about how best to put this tiny house together. I also got some really good measurements of the trailer. This combined with the decision to permanently attache the house to the trailer added something new to consider, wheel wells. This trailer has some really big wheels too so the wheel wells are more than little bumps on the floor. They require boxes that measure 76″ long by 17″ into the room, by 14″ high. Yikes that’s about 9 square feet.

At first I was a little concerned and then started laying things out and realized that the wheel wells pointed me in the right direction. Ironically I’m almost back to where I started. The door is in the end of the room, the bathroom is back to having a separate shower, the kitchen counter is fairly large, there seems to be adequate space for storage, there’s space for a small water heater, and even the twin size bench/bed downstairs.

The loft sticks out a bit much so my only concern is that this might feel smaller than it is. I could go with another roof design and rotate the loft bed 90 degrees. That would push the loft back 20 inches and open up more of the room visually. I might try that next.

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