Are Tiny House Designs Universal? New Zealand Vs. United States

a picture of a modern tiny house on wheels from new zealand with black exterior cladding and a large sliding door

Tiny Houses Designs: United States vs. New Zealand Scroll through Instagram and Facebook, and you’ll find beautiful tiny house designs from around the world. You may come across one from another country that catches your eye and that you want to build. Doesn’t seem too hard to take a design from another country and build it in the US does … Read More

Santa Cruz To Allow Tiny Houses On Wheels As Primary Home!

Santa Cruz County Leaps Over Other Jurisdictions to Lead The State In Innovative Housing Santa Cruz is the First County in California to Legalize Tiny Homes on Wheels as Primary Homes Santa Cruz County, CA, November 2022 – Santa Cruz County Supervisors led by First District Supervisor, Manu Koenig, unanimously passed SCCC 13.10.680 to legalize tiny homes on wheels as … Read More

Top 10 Tiny House Trailer Accessories for Towing / Security & Setting

Before you start towing your tiny house or even before you start building on your tiny house trailer, there is no doubt you will need some accessories to make towing easier and safer. You will also need to keep your investment safe and secure when you are not present as well as some things to assist in setting up your … Read More

Tiny House Shell Roof Color Options

When building your tiny house shell, We offer the option for choosing your own custom colors for your roofing & or siding. Below is our 25 available colors for your tiny house shell and full build. Tahoe Blue and Winter White are standard colors and there may be a small upcharge for other colors listed. Download The PDF of Colors … Read More

The First Step To Take When Designing Your Tiny House Floorplan

Wells let’s just say its the first step after deciding the length of your tiny house 🙂 This would be, where are the fenders located? This greatly affects everything in your design, especially door placements. Below is our master list for fender locations for a majority of our trailer lengths. When it comes to placing your doors in your floor … Read More

New Factory Location in Texas!

Over the past 10 years we have had thousands of customers in the great state of texas and now we are happy to announce we have a new factory location to serve our customers better, right outside Dallas, TX! We will be building trailers in all our sizes even the return of the 12ft wide models. Please request a quote … Read More

How To Visit Us In Person

At Tiny House Basics, Our goal is to simplify the process of going tiny and to provide the best possible prices for our customers on our custom tiny house trailers. With the worldwide pandemic continuing to impact so many aspects of our daily lives and our supply chains, we wanted to share some updates as well as clarify options we … Read More

Custom Plans & Elevations Now Available!

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