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Take the first step to achieving your dream of building and living in your very own tiny house! The Tiny House Design & Construction Guide is your road map to the entire build process. This guide will help you to understand each step that needs to be taken and, more importantly, give you the confidence to start building your own tiny house.
This is the expanded, 2nd edition of the Tiny House Design & Construction Guide. This latest edition contains over 50% more content and over 38 more images and illustrations. I listened to my reader's feedback and added much more information into the framing, electrical, and plumbing sections of the book.

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Dan Louche is the owner of Tiny Home Builders. He has been building tiny houses since 2009, when he built his first house for his mom. He strives to help others achieve their tiny house dreams by giving them the knowledge and confidence to build their own homes. He has taught tiny-house construction techniques to thousands of would-be builders through scores of workshops and speaking engagements. His company's website, tinyhomebuilders.com, is visited by over one million people each year, and his designs have been featured on numerous websites and TV shows, including Good Morning America and the HGTV network. Dan has a degree in engineering from the University of Central Florida.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tilt Development; Revised edition (May 1, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 182 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0997288701
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0997288704
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.4 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.01 x 0.49 x 10 inches

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Soraya Ellis

Accesible

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 2, 2023

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I love it. I’m using it to build my own tiny house with my husband.

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the1dabread

Not what I thought it would be.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2020

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My expectations were not met. I thought this book was going to be filled with tips on how to build a tiny home. As much as there were tips there were also things left out. I did like the simple illustrations on wiring and plumbing but that still feeds into my point... The book is basically a simple "How to Build a House" not a tiny home on wheels. Where I think they missed the the mark.
- Goes from dead simple stuff (what is a drill) to concepts with no explanation or picture. If you can dedicate 10 pages to pictures of tools you can give one picture for how to frame around the trailer wheels.
- No information on how to integrate a septic system hookup. Or integration from outside power to the breaker.
- 2 pages on cabinets. The interior of the tiny home is probably the most complex and worth talking about. Writes about bathroom placement in the beginning which is good, but, I feel this is a huge gap in the book

Basically this book mixed bag. You got complete beginner (i don't know what these tools are and can't use google) content, to great tips, to entirely skipping key points.

EDIT: Adding a star. I have looked at several other books for building Tiny Homes and this is the best out of like 4.

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Wendy Tobler

Thorough on construction, zero on dimensions and hauling

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 28, 2016

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This is a great book for learning the basics of constructing the shell of a tiny house (interior rooms aren't included). This new version thoroughly discusses electrical and plumbing, although, oddly, nothing about heating.

The word "design" in the subtitle doesn't refer to any specific floor plan, other than a comparison of two possible layouts of the kitchen and bathroom in relation to each other, and a caveat to avoid wasting space with hallways. And, although construction itself is well illustrated and detailed, I was very disappointed at the lack of two important aspects:

1) I was anxious to learn what the maximum dimensions would be for a tiny house to go down the road. But, other than mentioning 13'6" as the maximum height, there's zero discussion on maximum outside width, typical inside width, inside height and therefore a typical loft height, the pros and cons of a peaked roof versus a single pitch roof, etc. Even for the beautiful house that's on the cover, which is the one being constructed throughout the book, the reader has no idea how wide or tall it is.

2) There's zero discussion on what to expect when hauling one of these down the road. I'm sure legalities vary per state, but there must be *some* universal rules, facts and figures. And how top heavy are these? Is there a considerable stability/safety factor in staying below a certain height, or avoiding a single pitch roof (wind resistance on the high side?), or not building (or at least not weighing down) a loft? Also, I would've loved to have seen a chart showing several tiny house lengths and their corresponding typical weights and the size trucks necessary to haul each one.

That said, however, I enjoyed reading this easy-to-follow book, and I think it's probably all that an experienced amateur would need as a reliable reference for building a tiny house ... once he's determined from other sources what his dimensions could be, and therefore, his possible floor plans.

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sher tigoness

This is not a how to book but it’s good place to start.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2019

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This book covers the basic construction issues that is for tiny houses this is not a full how to guide. It has some how to sections like preparing the trailer for the tiny house, the basics of plumbing and what the best material to use, electrical basics, insulation types and which type is the best to use for a tiny house, flooring, etc. But if you want a step by step book this isn’t it. For example if you never did any framing this book isn’t going to tell you step by step how to do it. But it does cover tools needed, building Materials. This book is a good place to start and you’ll be able to decide if you want to build your whole tiny house from scratch or hire a contractor to do certain things and you finsh the stuff that you can do. After reading this book I’m leaning on to buying a cabin shell and having a contractor install just the plumbing and the electrical and I can look up on how to books to do the rest of the tiny house.

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John Elliott Welsh

Good Details

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 17, 2020

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If you have worked in framing or have built a few cabins and sheds the quick and dirty way, this books will straighten you out about some of the important details, such as strapping or setting up a window frame for proper installation. These issues are important and easily overlooked. The section on selecting a trailer was particularly useful. There are some pitfalls you can avoid by doing this reading. Without the benefit of this author's experience, you might build a base for your small house on the trailer that later teaches you that it would have been worth studying this book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2021

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Another internet book made to steer you to the web site to buy stuff. In this case it's tiny house plans. Poorly bound. When you start to read the pages start to separate from the binding. Lots of good tidbits of information that you would have to scour the web to attain. Missing any kind of detail that would make you think you could just do your own plans. For example: It covers trailer types for a mobile tiny house but doesn't list trailer vendors. Presumably that's a detail that will help drive you to the site for plans and not offend a trailer vendor though I've learned since I got the book that some are much better for tiny houses than others.

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Fred Lackey

Above and beyond!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 14, 2019

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I'm definitely a geek. I've been buying eBooks for probably a decade. I just don't have an interest in physical books. And, the PDF version of this book came free with the order of our tiny house trailer. So, I comfortably had the PDF where I like it; on my iPad. However, the PDF was chock full of such good content that I just had to order the physical book. I am amazed by the high-quality of the printing. The entire book is constructed with glossy full-color pages and tons of pictures. Dan's certainly gone above and beyond with this effort. It's worth every penny... even if you already own the electronic version of it.

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Mas

OK book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 11, 2022

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The book is weak on framing, which is essential knowledge. No explanation for loft construction.

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BLOOD Maelstrom

Great Title on this subject

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 25, 2019

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I have bought several titles on this topic, and this is certainly one of the better ones.
Also, it has a good ratio of photographs, diagrams and copy. Believe it or not, I have been sold construction guides that contain no images or plans of any sort (which I obviously wouldn't have purchased had that been indicated!) This is thorough and contains a lot of "Best Practises".

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V.A.

Provides good overview over most important construction steps!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 28, 2016

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The book provides a good overview over most important construction steps. However it leaves out some details such as damp proof layers, heating etc. and I wished some of the chapters were a bit more detailed, therefore only 4 stars. Nevertheless, I'd definitely recommend it, if you're planning to build a tiny house; just find it useful to have this information neatly collected in one place and with clear photos and illustrations on tricky details of some construction steps.

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Christopher DAlcorn

Too basic for price tag

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 5, 2020

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I purchased this book for £22 on Amazon hoping it would have lots of content. Whilst I read it to the end it was a bit disappointing. It only took 1.5 hours to read, which is too short for something either this price tag. Some of the areas covered are detailed and other unbelievably basic. Other areas such as fit out are not covered at all, and the plans are very few. Personally I think this book should be £5-10 in its current format. It's like the author had a great idea but didn't finish it off or rushed to get it into print.

S. LEWIS

Printing repeated a couple of sections and missed about 20 pages.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 29, 2019

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Book looks good for beginners but the printing on my copy was faulty. Two sections were repeated and a lot of pages were missing. The book was in fine condition so it must be the production that is the problem.

Paul

Easy to read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 20, 2019

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Good read if you want a new home!

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