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Peter Sing is offering another one of his prototypes for sale and at a very good price. This one is not on a trailer and does not have a loft but would make a great office space or spare room or a getaway somewhere.

With it’s open floor plan your imagination is the limit and you can be creative in how you finish this building. At 8 foot by 14 feet and an asking price of $6,200 you can take it home.

The Sing cottage is built using the Sing honeycomb product designed by Sing. The Sing honeycomb panels are made with patented Sing honeycomb core which is a low cost, high strength, lightweight panel. The cottage is insulated with EPS, or urethane foam which offers an insulation value of (R-6.5 per inch) to learn more about Sing products go to these links www.singtinyhouse.com and www.lightweightnews.com.

The cottage is located in McCleary, Washington and you can contact Tina via email at [email protected] or by telephone at 360-495-3577. Be sure and let Tina or Peter know you learned about the cottage at the Tiny House Blog.

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Most of you have been following the development of the Sonoma Shanty plans, workshop and kit. Stephen Marshall of the Little House on the Trailer has taken the Sonoma Shanty one more step and added wheels and a little more space.

The Sonoma Shanty on wheels, is a completed shell on wheels that is designed for the do-it-yourselfer to furnish and complete. Stephen has attempted to make this the most affordable base unit on wheels.

*** No Longer Available *** At $9,000 you get an eight foot by twenty foot home with 160 square feet, it is a nice size area to develop as a home.

Easily design a bathroom and shower in the rear, with a kitchen galley on one side and storage on the other. The main living area would be in the front of the shanty. A loft could be put above the bathroom and kitchen area for additional storage or sleeping.

By using Sing Panels (SIPs) this home is already insulated and ready to complete. All you need to do is add wiring and plumbing and do the finish work and add the appliance and fixtures you want.

You as the designer could complete the interior to your own taste and design as you get an open canvas to work with. A basic home at a very affordable price, one more option for a tiny house.

*** No Longer Available ***

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I am very lucky to be living in Northern California where there is a lot of tiny house activities going on. Besides, Jay with Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, Bill with Tortoise Shell Homes and Stephen with Little House on the Trailer, I am just 45 minutes from Hopland and the flagship Real Goods Store and Educational Center.

A few weeks ago I was on my way to see my folks in Ukiah and pick up Max our dog and decided to take some time to stop by Real Goods and photograph their tiny houses that they have scattered around their property.

I have stopped in at different times as they were constructing the homes, but never had my camera with me. This time I went prepared with the idea to share with the Tiny House Blog readers what Real Goods has to offer for examples of tiny homes.

I have attached a lot of pictures to this post and have put brief descriptions under the photos. So take your time and enjoy. If your ever in the area, reserve time to visit Real Goods, you won’t be disappointed.

Here is what Real Goods has to say about themselves:

We’ve been busy getting stocked up for the holiday season and fine-tuning displays to make them educational and exciting — emphasizing product groupings like “Relocalization and Peak Oil,” “Biofuels and Alternative Transportation,” and “Green Building.” We’re also revamping our Renewable Energy Department, where we’ve seen sales numbers double annually in response to worldwide global warming concerns. Our sustainable living library contains more than 2,000 titles on subjects including organic and biodynamic gardening, cooking, natural and green building, renewable energy, intentional community, permaculture, politics, alternative fuels, electric vehicles, sustainable outdoor projects and much more. You’ll also find new men’s and women’s organic clothing (from basic to hip) as well as healthy body care products. And for the little ones on your list, we carry dozens of educational and solar toys. More than half the store’s products cannot be found in this catalog, so we invite you to stop by, browse and experience the future, while you check out the wonders of the Solar Living Center. The Hopland Real Goods store is open every day (except Christmas Day) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Go and visit the Real Goods Website and if you are in the area be sure and stop by and check everything out yourself.

Straw Bale Welcome Building

Inside of Strawbale Welcome Building

Colorado Yurt Company Dwelling

Straw Bale and Stick Built Garden Shed

Straw Bale Residence

SIP Building Example

YurtBoy Yurt

Straw Bale Bathroom would make a cool tiny house

Windmill and Giant Solar Panels

Cob Well House

Tepee Residence

Straw Bale and Stick Built Tiny House

Back of Straw Bale and Stick Built Residence

Painted Storage Container

Solar Option for a Tiny House

Portable Solar on a Trailer

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Shed-Boy Demonstration Building

Shed-Boy a company located in Port Townsend, WA, build small buildings for which can be used for almost any function you can imagine. Shed-Boy’s focus is as an efficiency dwelling unit, fully self-contained, so they can function as..

•  Accessory Dwelling Unit (mother-in-law suite)
• cottage or cabin
• guest house
•  art studio
• rental

Each plan series comes in lengths from 16’ to 28’ and are 14’ deep. Shed-Boy also has the Outlaw model, a 10 x12 unit which gives you a 120 s.f. unit with a full kitchen, bath and laundry, and enough room for a fold-away bed!

Sustainability is deeper than “green” products and finishes. Shed-Boy wants to go beyond LEED platinum. Shed-Boy’s goal is to provide quality buildings that utilize resources to strengthen our communities. Zero-impact is no longer enough- we need to have a positive impact
with what is available now!

• Designed to be modular, panelized, or constructed on-site with optimum efficiency.
• In our base model, finishes are minimal creating the lowest cost product with the highest utility.
• Small spaces are efficient to heat, and light. Less surface area, fewer corners, and building envelope penetrations result in tighter more efficient buildings.

Check out the Shed-Boy site to learn more.

Update: This is a 12 x 16,- it is the Jake floor plan- this one is constructed with SIPs and was completed in about 7.5 hours. – more photo’s are available under the slides button at at the bottom of our web page www.shed-boy.com

Photo Credit: Shed-Boy

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Form & Forest Flat Pack Cabins

If you have ever dreamed of getting away to a contemporary piece of design your moment has arrived. Form & Forest have worked hard to bring stunning design together with prefab manufacturing techniques that allow you to build a cabin and enjoy it sooner.

Form & Forest offers a range of cabins that have been designed for how you live at the cabin, both inside and out. Generous indoor and outdoor living spaces group the eating, entertaining and relaxing together while offering seclusion for sleeping and quiet reading.

The generous decks and large windows are designed into the plans with the full expectation that you will be building your cabin in a pretty fantastic landscape. A Landscape whose vistas, trees and rocks should be appreciated and embraced.

You might be wondering what is a flat pack cabin exactly? Form & Forest builds prefabricated panelized walls and components based on architectural plans in their indoor manufacturing facility and deliver them to your job site.  These components are shipped flat along with siding, doors, windows, and roofing materials.

The Cowboy shown here is 635 square feet and the price for the kit is $68,100 excluding shipping and taxes. To learn more and see more designs and download a brochure, visit the Form & Forest website.

Floorplan

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Stephanie Reiley of Coming Unmoored pointed this great find out to me on facebook the other day and I wanted to share with you this neat prototype that I personally hope will go into production one day.

The Taliesin Mod.FabTM is an example of simple, elegant, and sustainable living in the desert. The one-bedroom, 600-square-foot prototype residence relies on panelized construction to allow for speed and economy on site or in a factory.

It can be connected to utilities or be “unplugged,” relying on low-consumption fixtures, rainwater harvesting, greywater re-use, natural ventilation, solar orientation, and photovoltaics to reduce energy and water use. The structure is dimensioned and engineered to be transportable via roadway.

The Taliesin Mod.FabTM was designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture with the faculty guidance of Michael P. Johnson and Jennifer Siegal, project manager Christian Butler, recent M.Arch graduate, and assistant project manager Nick Mancusi, current BAS student.

You can view the construction of this home at the PrairieMod blog and more pictures at the Taliesin Mod.FabTM site.

Photo Credits Bill Timmerman

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I promised an update on the Solargon Structure’s Yurts and Doug Kirk has been kind enough to give me some figures to share with you. I have also added some photos of the larger yurt they produce. The 30 foot yurt, so look it over and enjoy. See the previous post on the Solargon Structure’s Yurt here.

MSRP for the 20′ model is $ 22,500

Included:

All walls R28 and roof panels R42, micro-lam headers, wall to wall connecters, aircraft grade octagon operable skylight, compression ring w/header, screws for assembly and owner’s assembly manual. Walls cam-lock together in seconds and the typical erection time is 4 to 5 hours.

MSRP for the 30′ model is $ 39,900

Included:

All walls R42 and roof panels R42, micro-lam headers, wall to wall connectors, glue-lam super structure and rafters, operable skylight,compression frame w/header and assembly manual. Wall and roof panels cam-lock together and the typical erection time is 2 days.

Some will say that they sound expensive but you save time and money on assembly, very little waste or theft, and no expensive contractor needed. When your home is up you have the walls, roof, insulation, and rough electrical with boxes ready to go for about $55.00 per sq. ft. You then choose the interior and exterior finishing of your choice. An average home will cost about $125 to $150 per sq. ft. to finish so Solargons are very competitive.

Additional value is in the energy savings for the life of the building. You can upgrade your lifestyle with energy savings and lower your carbon footprint and live in a open and light living space.

Your kit can be shipped anywhere and can be put together by customers. We do supply tech support or can assist with your project.

Visit www.solargonsales.com for more pictures. You can also view a virtual interior of a 30′ model to get an idea what the interior would look like. See interior of 30′ Solargon.

30' Solargon Floorplan

20' Solargon Yurt

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