How cool would it be to live in a tiny house?

Hey everyone, how cool would it be to live in a tiny house right now? This is the tiny house my friend Kelly lives in. She got an architect to design it for her but she told them exactly what she wanted to have in it. The link below is a interview that was done with her a few weeks ago as she showed someone around her tiny home!

livingbiginatinyhouse.com/stunning-modern-minimalist-tiny-house/#more-12899

If you have any questions about how her tiny home works add them to the comments and i will ask her to answer them for you!

I've had fun designing my ideal tiny home - ill show you how you can come up with a design for your own tiny space - its a great thing to fill in lots of time at the moment!

When you design something big you cant draw it full size! You draw it to a scale. I'd suggest that for this design you would draw at a scale of 1:50 - that means every 1cm you draw would equal 50cm at full size. The best way to start is to draw a grid of 1cm squares like below.

Ive drawn 1cm squares which equal 50cm (or 500mm) and ive darkened every 2 squares -  which will equal 1metre.

Kelly's tiny house is about 7m x 2.5m = 17.5m2 You can make yours whatever size you want but try to keep it below 20m2.
Now you can start designing how you want your space to look. It will be really helpfull to measure things at your home to see how big they are before you draw them to scale. For instance you will probably find that a single bed is 2m long and 1m wide so it will need to be 4cm long by 2cm wide on your drawing. Do the same with sink benches, ovens, showers, toilets, couches. If you have questions about any of this put them in the comments and ill try to help out!







Ive tried to draw the plan of Kelly's tiny house from what i could  see in the video. She has a couch and cupboard for clothes on the left and then you walk through the kitchen area to the bathroom. Upstairs she has a bed in a loft area that looks down onto her couch.
I'd love to see what sort of designs you come up with - make sure you share them with me. (1sy@hornby.school.nz) There are lots of other tiny house ideas you can look up online too.
The next step will be to try and make a model of your design! Save any old Weetbix boxes you have and watch this space!