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Safety Features in a Tiny Home Part-One Designing your own tiny home can be exciting and maybe a little stressful, but have you thought about safety concerns in your tiny home?  There could be safety issues you may not have even considered.  I hope this blog post proves to be helpful in building your future tiny.  Adding into the equation safety concerns shouldn't prove to be too challenging, but certainly, something to think about. Living in a small compacted space can allow for some safety mishaps, and should be prepared for.  In part one of our two-part safety series, we will touch on general safety and fire safety in part two.  If you haven't heard of NOAH, it's an independent organization who has determined a standard for safe build guidelines specifically for tiny homes.  If you are a do-it-yourselfer or are having someone build your home that is new to tiny homes, you may want to consider having your home built to NOAH specif...

Financing a Tiny Home If you have considered building a tiny home, you may have considered financing as an option to pay for your future home on wheels. For some, purchasing a tiny home may be a simple as paying with cash you may have saved over the years or cashed in on all or part of an investment account.  Some people have sold their traditional foundation built home and used the money left over to pay for a tiny house on wheels.   But for others, frustration may be a feeling you share with the rest.  If you don't have cash on hand or access to cash, you may have tried to figure out ways to finance your tiny home.  Financing options becoming available specifically for THOWs is minimal and even slower to come about then the acceptance of the tiny house movement itself.  Also, financing may not even cover the entire cost of the increasing prices of tiny homes.  In any case of financing, you will still need somewhere between 3-25% down...

The Grackle What's a Grackle you ask? For one it's the name of this very beautiful and well crafted tiny home. This house is named after the Great-Tailed Grackle that is famous or even infamous to some in Texas depending on who you are and where you live.  They are notorious for their aggressive feeding on scraps found in grocery store parking lots and around many food trucks that are very popular in the Austin area for sure.  Known also for their wildly different sounds, people either love them or hate them and many bird enthusiasts love them.  Much like the Sea Gull to many visiting beaches on the Atlantic Coast, they've been known to snatch food right from your hand, and many appreciate their beauty.  There are several species of Grackle found in the southern United States and Mexico and the owners of this tiny house were inspired by the bird while visiting Austin, Texas.  Melissa and Scott designed and built their gorgeous home with L...

Welcoming Maria! We have recently welcomed Maria and her seven-year-old Siberian Husky to TE.  She is the owner of beautifully built Liberation Tiny Home that is 32 ft long and has two sleeping lofts.  Maria came to us from a nearby campground where she had been parked for some time.  Right now her house,  Aspen's Cove is perched upon a hilltop neighboring the Horizon and has a view of one of the ponds and homes below.  Maria was born in Seattle, WA and grew up locally, here in Hellertown, PA.  She is now currently based here in Elizabethtown, as she is serving in her 16th year of service in the PA Army National Guard in logistics. She plans to continue her military career for another 15 years and to also live in her tiny house while she fulfills her commitment to the guard.  The PA Army National Guard moves Maria about every 2-5 years and she loves that she can move her tiny house with her wherever she goe...