Laurel Nest Yurts Workshop

Laurel Nest Yurts is offering a workshop in the beautiful mountains outside of Santa Cruz, California and you are invited to join them to get some hands on experience in building a yurt. Laurel Nest Yurts is offering a “Complete Yurt Building Experience” and a DIY Yurt Building Workshop. Laurel … Read more

Laurel Nest Yurts Workshop

Laurel Nest Yurts will offer their next yurt building workshop from April 22nd, 23rd and 24th. Workshop location: Laurel Nest Yurts 264-1 Marlowe Dr. Mills River, North Carolina We will be teaching people how to build all yurt parts. All participants will leave the workshop with knowledge about building their own yurt, … Read more

Laurel Nest’s Yurtle

Asia contacted me the other day about an interesting tiny house concept. Asia is the owner of a company called Laurel Nest Yurts. Here is what Asia had to say: We just “invented” a yurt on a trailer, with a round deck.

The Mongolians invented yurts as a portable structure. Laurel Nest Yurts invented the Yurtle TM as a portable yurt structure on wheels. Our Yurtle is a mobile home that is affordable, elegant, and sustainable. Our smallest model uses less than 50 yards of fabric, 30 2x4s, 2 sheets of plywood, and 35 decking boards. The Yurtle is a tiny house with tiny materials, totaling about 110 square feet plus a small porch.

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