Here are some photos of my ‘tiny house’ built from your Sonoma Shanty plans in the summer of 2010 just a quarter mile from Lake Superior in Wisconsin. While my 10 acres do not have a lake, I am near enough to hear the waves on a windy day, and a mile from the local beach.

This summer we had a Jotul 602 woodstove installed, by September it is needed for heat at night! I’m very happy with the house. I bought seven windows made for a house at the local home store and they fill it with light.

My builder was a retired farmer who is 6’5″, so he added 4 inches to the height so the loft is more acceptable to him! I designed a bench that turns into a bed and there is also room to sleep in the loft. The size was adjusted to 10′ x 14 from the original plans.

I’ll get better interior photos next time we are up there. I live six hours away, so that is the only bad part as we can’t get there every weekend. (The first photo, the tiny house in the snow, just won a contest to be the December page in the 2012 calendar by a Wisconsin company named Wausau Supply.) The last photo shows a visiting bear – taken from the north window of the tiny house! He walked all around it and then ambled off. Never noticed us inside gawking at him! Thanks again for your great plans!

Marsha

Photo Credit’s Marsha Siik

I am excited to invite you to the Grand Opening of SonomaShanty.com. This has been at the back of mind ever sense Stephen Marshall and I got together to design this little structure.

My goal with this website is to show off your completed shanties and to show the many options that are available using this simple design and layout.

Stephen just completed the first Sonoma Shanty. This shanty has been set up to be used as a garden retreat away from the big house. With fine wood floors and detailed walls, this retreat shows what a high end shanty can look like. When completed it will have a small kitchen and be a perfect place to come away from the big house and relax and enjoy the garden and gazebo.

The Sonoma Shanty has been designed to be used as a tiny house, shed, garden retreat, home office, homeless shelter or whatever your imagination can see for this space. Stephen is in the process of creating more floor plans so you can visualize what can be done using the Sonoma Shanty plans. So come visit the SonomaShanty.com site today.

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I am excited to introduce the Sonoma Shanty Plans, based on a 120 square foot, 8′ x 15′ simple structure, designed for a tiny house, studio, home office or shed.

Can’t wait to get them Click Here and Buy Now.

Everything you need including a cut list, a shopping list that you can take to your local Home Depot and Lowes. Build the basic shell for as little as $1295 plus your labor.

Co-designed by Stephen Marshall of Little House on the Trailer and Kent Griswold of the Tiny House Blog.

Typically plans of this quality and detail sell for $100 but to make them more accessible to more buyers we’re keeping our house plan price at $27. Here is what the plans include:

• Foundation Plan
• Floor Plan
• Exterior Elevations
• Floor Frame Plan
• South Wall Frame Plan
• North Wall Frame Plan
• East Wall Frame Plan
• Structural Section Plan
• Roof Framing Plan
• Perspective Plan
• Shopping List for Shell and insulated, windowed house
• Kit House Price List
• Tiny House Resource List

The plans are delivered to you in an Adobe pdf file and print out on legal paper.

The Sonoma Shanty Plans are part of a larger picture. Stephen Marshall of Little House on the Trailer has taken these plans and developed several kits that are available for purchase. These include a

• Basic stick built kit $2000
• Hybrid kit using Sing Honeycomb panels and stick built construction $3500
• Sing Honeycomb Kit $4500
• 8 foot by 20 foot Sonoma Shanty Unfinished Kit on a trailer for $9000

Stephen also offers a workshop so you can get hands on in the construction of the Sonoma Shanty. These workshops are offered twice a month in Petaluma, California. You can get the details here.

If you purchase the plans you can subtract the cost from a workshop or a kit. If you attend a workshop that amount will also be deducted from a kit or finished Sonoma Shanty.

You can order the plans at the Tiny House Blog Plans page located here. Times are tough and even at this great price some may find it hard, if you are one of these look at the bottom of the plan information for another option.

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