This NOAH certified tiny house was built with simplicity and functionality in mind. Downstairs sleeping was a key part of the design. A year ago we polled over million users on The Tiny House Listings site with over 200,000 people responding. The goal was to learn exactly what the ideal tiny house would look like for the maximum number of people. Price point, layout and functionality were the three main focuses. This tiny house called "The Model Tiny" is the result.
Hey everyone, I'm Stephen here with Tiny House Listings and today I wanted to give you a quick
tour of this 24-foot tiny house that we recently completed and we are now building tiny houses in
Wilmington, North Carolina. So Tiny House Listings is actually building tiny houses now and so I
wanted to give you a quick tour so let's go. So I thought I'd take you around the tiny house really
quick and show you the facilities. This is just a simple water inlet. This is how the entire tiny
house is fed water and down here is where the black water and gray water is dispelled from the
You can hook that up to any standard RV flexible hose or you can plumb it right into the city
water or into a septic depends on what you have. And power is supplied to the entire tiny house
through this 50 amp receptacle. So you just plug your 50 amp plug in right here. This is one that
has an adapter which you can use as well or you can plug it directly into a 50 amp circuit depending
on how you want to do it. You can even go solar through here but it just goes in there and that's
how you have power to the entire tiny house. The tiny house is heated and cooled through this 12,000
BTU mini split and the house is very well insulated so you have no problem keeping this
tiny house cool or warm anywhere in the continental United States. And then on the front side to the
rear we added a standard receptacle TFI so if you have anything outside that you need to plug in for
example if you decided to put a deck here or anything you need outdoor power for you can just
plug into here. And then on the front here we also added a water outlet so if you need a water
hose for anything around the house spraying things off or watering your plants whatever it happens
to be you can just plug a standard water hose into this outlet and have fresh water. And also above
the entry door you can see that there is an exterior light so this will be good when you're coming
into the tiny house at night you'll have a little bit of light to see how to get in. Now on this
tiny house we use two different types of siding vinyl board and batten and then right here is
LP smart siding which is a 50-year product both of these are very very good
options to side your house. And another thing I should mention as well is this tiny house is
NOAA slash ANSI certified. A lot of tiny house communities are requiring that tiny houses be
certified and finance houses certified so every tiny house that we build here at tiny house listings
is. Also I wanted to mention that this tiny house is sitting on a deck over trailer that means that
the deck sits above the wheels and the good thing about this is well this tiny house doesn't have a
sleeping loft above it only has a storage loft you'll see that in a second but it also is great
because a tiny house that sits lower that you have to build a box inside of the living room for your
tiny house and that has its benefits but for this particular model we don't do that because then
you don't have the box sitting inside of the living room that protects the wheels from exterior from
the elements outside and it prevents having that inside and having to chop off the back legs of
your couch for example and many other issues that you could run into. Alright so now that I showed
you the exterior let's go inside and we'll check it out. So welcome to the inside of the tiny house
this is a 24 foot tiny house and the whole idea behind this tiny house is that we polled over
200,000 people we asked a series of questions and we built this tiny house around that so we're not
a builder that is building something that we want you to like we found out what you liked and we
built something based around that so the tiny house has downstairs sleeping which the vast
majority of people want and then it also has a living area. So the bedroom area accommodates a
queen-size bed very easily and it has plenty of storage throughout to store your clothes and other
belongings that you have there is also a storage loft above the bathroom to store plenty of your
items and then underneath if you want you can also store items underneath the bed and then on this
side we've also included a power outlet so you can hang a tv here and what we recommend of course
you can do whatever you want would it be to have it on a swivel so when you're laying in bed if
you want to watch tv you could watch it here and then turn it this way and so when you're sitting
on the couch you can watch tv from that area also this particular tiny house has an apartment size
fridge but if you wanted you could do as more of a smaller fridge dorm style and have some
counter space above that and that would give you a little bit of extra counter space you can also
use this area right here the sitting area put yourself a little bistro table we haven't staged
this tiny house for that but you can absolutely do that there so moving on to the kitchen area
this is a stained butcher block you can have a butcher block any color you want it has a very
deep stainless steel sink and we have floating shelves above to put all your dishes or whatnot
also a nice size cabinet here to put food plenty of storage underneath the kitchen and we have two
gfi outlets and over here we have a two burner cooktop electric cooktop now with these tiny
houses you could either go to we get two flavors you can do the hot water heater and the cooktop
in electric or both of those two in propane a lot of people who want to go off grid tend to go with
the more the propane because uh it uses more electricity to heat hot water and to cook so
yeah the kitchen in this tiny house is very functional you can prepare meals do whatever
it is you need to do in the bathroom we have a nice size vanity and we have a flush toilet
if you decided that you're going off grid and you wanted a compost toilet we would still plum
the bathroom up for a flush toilet and just remove that flush toilet and where the flange is
we would put the compost to it right on top of that so if you ever decided to sell the tiny house in
the future or if you moved on grid uh you could absolutely just remove that compost toilet and
put yourself a flush toilet right on top of that another shot of the vanity very very functional
and um there's storage beneath then on the side we have a one piece shower this one's a 36 you
can do 32 inches well to free up more space in the rest of the house if you like we also have
a bathroom fan to vent out all of the moisture in the bathroom there's a storage loft above the
bathroom uh to put your items that you perhaps don't use every day that you just need to get
every now and then um we don't have a ladder or stairs up there because in this unit we're afraid
it would just take away too much floor space so what we recommend are the standard telescoping
ladders that you could just stow away anywhere you want and just un you know just open that up
whenever you need it uh to get retrieve those items up there in the loft so with this particular
floor plan and all of the other sizes we do 18 footers of these we do 24 footers and we also have
a 28 footer um and the 18 footer it just takes away this living area basically and over here
in this area you would perhaps get a daybed that would also serve as a couch and run this way
on the 28 footer exact same layout but you just have four more feet of living space um but this
particular unit is excellent for one to two people living full-time uh airbnb is an investment or a
guest house a getaway house something like that but we wouldn't recommend this layout for a family
um it's only suited for one to two people so thank you for watching the tour uh if you are
interested in learning more information or perhaps purchasing one of these tiny houses
that tiny house listings is building see the contact information down below
and thank you for watching and we hope you enjoyed see on the next video