Custom Tiny House Floor Plans and Elevations are Now Available from our online shop at www.TinyHouseBasics.bigcartel.com These custom plans can start with any size trailer from 12ft to 56ft and any width up to 12ft wide. We have long offered our custom plans when we build our tiny house shells for clients but now we are opening up the offering … Read More
34ft Gooseneck Tiny House Shell Tour
Starting with the 26ft + 8ft Tiny House Basics Gooseneck Trailer we shared in the last blog post. We built this custom tiny house shell for a family in Georgia. https://www.TinyHouseBasics.com/shells This Shell includes the standard features of 4 windows, a Glass front door, a Standing Seam Metal Roof, an Insulated Subfloor, T1-11 Siding, and a Shed Roof. The Customer … Read More
Gooseneck Tiny House Trailer Tour
What’s so special about a gooseneck tiny house trailer? Watch this tour to find out all the details about gooseneck tiny house trailers and why they may be right for you! For more info on our Tiny House Trailer please visit our website https://www.tinyhousebasics.com To see more info on our goosenecks, go to https://www.tinyhousebasics.com/tiny house trailers/gooseneck-trailers
Tiny Houses On Wheels are now Legal in San Diego!
Tiny Houses On Wheels are now Legal in San Diego! This is the first city in the region outlining ordinances for tiny houses in backyards along with San Jose, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, and many others. This is a win-win across the board and makes it easier for our DIY tiny house builders to located parking spots in the … Read More
A Few Tips To Help Make Living Tiny Long Term Actually Doable
To make Tiny House Living practical for the long term, here is a few things we have learned over the years: Be practical in the space you need, size is subjective and everyone has different needs, wants and family sizes. Will you travel with it? The reality is that over 99% of our customers don’t travel with their tiny houses, … Read More
This Newlywed Couple Built a Timber Framed Tiny House With No Prior Building Experience
Meet Edwin and Clara, Their Tiny house build started in June of 2018 on a 24ft x 97.5in 14k Tiny House Basic’s Trailer with Drop Axles but the journey truly began in 2015. Living in San Diego at the time, both of them separately began daydreaming about tiny home living. Edwin was pursuing an Environmental Engineering degree from UCSD and Clara … Read More
The Problems With Drop Axles on a Tiny House
When building a tiny home on wheels there are several limitations you must adhere to if you do not want to go over the legal limit for road travel in the united states. These limitations are: Height, Width, Length and Weight. If you exceed any of these dimensions you will need to pull a Wide load or Oversized permit. The … Read More
Join Us At The Tiny House Expo, Oct 11-13, 2019 in San Luis Obispo, Ca
Tiny House Basics is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the First Annual Tiny House Expo in San Luis Obispo! As the #1 source for Tiny House Trailers with over 450 custom tiny house trailers built each year we are excited to take part in this special event. Come join us and visit our booth where we will be … Read More
Tiny Houses on Instagram: Real Life VS Curated Accounts
By Jessica Mokhiber Palmer @tinyhouseofny www.tinyhouseofny.com When we first began our tiny house journey in 2016, we began with research – exhaustively scouring YouTube, checking out books on tiny living and downsizing from our local library, and then, as a lot of people do for inspiration, turned to Instagram. I remember thinking, “Whoa. We should have checked Instagram sooner.” There … Read More