This Rustic Tiny House Has a Spacious Interior and a Balcony Up Top

You'll be sure to love this tiny house on wheels from MitchCraft Tiny Homes, tiny house builders who work together with each customer to design a tiny home for their specific needs. Each tiny house is entirely customized and unique, and the tiny house builders welcome your ideas and questions. Once you have an initial idea of what you are looking for in your tiny home, you explore some general budget options using their Quote Calculator. The following are some of the factors to keep in mind when considering a tiny house build.

Trailers. The most important aspect of any home design is the foundation, which is no different when it comes to a tiny house. The tiny house trailers used by MitchCraft Tiny Homes are built and engineered specifically for tiny homes on wheels, with every trailer custom-built according to the specs for your tiny home, with standard features including brakes on every axle, structural wheel wells, corner leveling jacks, and metal sheet flashing underneath. The L&D trailers are available in the standard 8-foot wide, 10-foot wide, bumper-pull hitch, and goose-neck hitch configurations.

Structure. Wood framing is the standard for these tiny homes, which is cost-effective, more thermally efficient than steel stud framing, easier for DIY finishing (if purchasing a shell), and comes from renewably planted lumber forests (no heavy mining as with steel). The tiny homes are constructed of 2 by 4 wall framing and 2 by 6 roof framing, the tiny homes are suitable for both warm and cold climates with heavy snow load requirements. With thermal efficiency, affordability, strength, and renewability as priorities, wood framing is a clear choice.

SIPs Upgrade. If you want a high-performance tiny home with the best thermal envelope possible, then structurally insulated panels (SIPs) pre-engineered panels, which fasten together to create a fast, strong, and highly efficient building envelope are the way to go. They have 2 times the R-value as typical residential insulation, SIPs construction provides the highest possible insulation value available in tiny home buildings.

Air and Weather Barrier. With MitchCraft Tiny Homes' standard wood framing, ZIP-system structural sheathing is the ultimate choice for sheathing with built-in air and weather-resistant barriers. Unlike typical house wraps, which are prone to tearing and difficult to properly install, ZIP-system sheathing incorporates an instant water-proof membrane on the surface of the sheathing, which also serves as an air barrier for the home. With energy efficiency and high-performance building as our standard, starting with an air-tight, waterproof home is critical to the overall quality and longevity of the tiny home.

Standing Seam Metal Roofing. Perhaps the most important aspect of a long-lasting tiny home is the roofing which is the first line of defense against all types of weather. On every tiny home that is built with MitchCraft Tiny Homes, standing-seam metal roofing is the only option. Unlike asphalt shingles or exposed-fastener metal roofing systems, standing-seam roofing has zero exposed fasteners, creating a leak-free roof on your tiny home for decades to come. Whether extreme rain, snow, wind, or hail, the 24 gauge standing-seam metal roofing will be the last thing you will ever need to replace.