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Custom Tiny Home Single Saltbox Dormer Option 3
8ft x 18ft custom tiny home design with a single saltbox dormer and large French doors. This 8ft x 18ft offers two separate entrances into the home. A pair of French doors on the passenger’s side and a regular door on the taillight end of the home. The saltbox style…
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Custom Tiny Home Single Saltbox Dormer Option 2
8ft x 16ft custom tiny home design with a single saltbox dormer This 8ft x 16ft tiny home has the kitchen and bathroom located on the “tongue” end of the home. The part of the trailer where you connect your tow hitch to is often referred to as the tongue…
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Custom Tiny Home Single Saltbox Dormer Option 1
8 ft x 16ft custom tiny home design with a dormer. This quaint tiny home design offers full time living quarters at only 8ft x 16ft. This particular dormer is often referred to as a “saltbox dormer”. Notice how the exterior wall on the dormer isn’t flush with the exterior…
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Custom Tiny Home Modern Roof
8.5ft x 26ft custom tiny home design with modern skillion roof. With a large roll up door and sliding glass door, this tiny home design offers natural light and a modern appeal. Built-in flip down porch provides a welcoming outdoor living space. Check out our online shop for full construction…
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Custom Tiny Homes Series
A look at some of my favorite custom tiny home floorplans that I’ve designed. This new post series will focus on custom tiny home designs that I’ve worked on over the past couple of years. These designs were built by Incredible Tiny Homes, a tiny home manufacturer based out of…
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Hand vs Digital Sketching
In a digital age is there any value in hand sketching? (Spoiler: yes) In the digital world, is there still any value in hand sketching your design ideas? Absolutely! I’m a firm believer in the tactile aspect of hand sketching. It spurs ideas and helps in the process of developing…
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Shipping Container Homes
How a high cube shipping container can become a functional living space. Shipping container homes are a popular alternative living solution. This simple floor plan requires minimal modifications to the structure of the shipping container. Shipping containers can also be placed on compacted gravel rather than a traditional stem wall…
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Vintage Design
Beautiful hand drawn architectural renderings and floor plans. Practical Homes brochure by Kenosha Lumber Co. Copyright 1953 We are truly standing on the shoulders of giants. Architectural design work and renderings hand drafted in 1953. A great resource for floorplan ideas and an homage to the past. Marvel at the drafting…
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Why Tiny Homes?
My journey as owner and founder of AX Designs in the Tiny Home market. I started my architectural design firm in 2019 with the intent of working in the architectural industry. By 2019 I had worked as a draftsman, designer, engineering associate and product manager in the modular cleanroom sector…