Tiny House Floor Plans: Over 200 Interior Designs for Tiny Houses

by Michael Janzen

Inside Tiny House Floor Plans you'll find over 200 interior designs for tiny houses - 230 to be exact. A tiny house is exactly what it sounds like, a house with many of the amenities you’d expect in a home tucked neatly into a super small space. Often these homes are built on trailers giving them the added benefit of mobility. But these designs could also be built on your choice of foundation.Each chapter focuses on one size footprint to show what can be done inside each size space - 14 in all, (8x12, 8x16, 8x20, 8x24, 8x28, 8x32, 12x12, 12x12 + Loft, 12x16, 12x16 + Loft, 12x20, 12x20 + Loft, 12x24, 12x24 + Loft).The book is mostly illustrations with a short introduction. A detailed legend shows you how to read the floor plans making each drawing a wealth of information on how to pack a lot of utility into a tiny space. If you're considering simplifying your life, extreme downsizing, arranging your tiny apartment more efficiently, building a cabin or inlaw unit, and/or building your own mortgage-free tiny home, this book can help give you a head start on making your goals a reality.

Genres: Nonfiction

296 pages, Paperback

First published February 22, 2012

Reviews

[Jordan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an entire book of basically nothing but floor plans. Which is definitely nice to see so many floor plans, but I do wish there was an example picture or two to show how some of them would look in person, or even a more 3D model. I sometimes had trouble picturing height because of the straight down perspective of the floor plans. There were also a few that felt kind of meh to me. Yes you could lay out your tiny house like that... but would you really want to? I dunno, I just consider having the range/stovetop right in the path of the front door to be a hazard. It was interesting to see how absolutely spacious some of the spaces seemed by the end since the book for the most part went from small to large.

[Nadine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great floor plans in a variety of different dimensions. I even found a couple floor plans that I would love to use...if this type of living were to be a change in our future.

[Juan Velez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great resource!

Love this book! Great resource for building a tiny home. I love all the different floor plans in this book.

[April · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked that this book was page after page of tiny house floor plans. I get tired of reading all the commentary and opinions that come with tiny house design and this was refreshingly free of those things. My one complaint for this book is a lack stair options. At the beginning of the book the author illustrates the size difference between a ladder and a traditional set of stairs. Well duh! The stairs take up too much room. BUT...tiny house stairs are anything but traditional. Stairs can slide, fold, contain storage, etc. I would have liked to see more creativity with how one would get to the loft.

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such a EXCELLENT book! 👍

[Rashidul Mondal · Rating 5 out of 5]

This very informative book about Civil Engineering

[Sandie Bushey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great info for plans.

[Matthew Stiles · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are indeed 200 floor plans in this book. It shows several plans for different sized areas. However the plans are very similar. The amount of variety is lacking and did not really inspire me as much as I hoped.
Honestly I would recommend people to look at this book on amazon and preview it. Then just imagine that 200 times over with very minute changes.

The doors, windows and furniture are always in similar places. They don't move much and all that seems to happen is that more space is offered. On the bigger plans more furniture is added but not really rotated much.

I would say it is worth a 5 minute look but just do it on amazon or Google books. That should give you all you need and the book will not offer much more than an online preview.

I am wondering why this book was rated so well on those sites and I am gaining a further distrust in online reviews.

[Stacy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I keep reading tiny house books, always hoping for something that will give me a variety of floorplans to compare. This is that book. It's exactly what I was looking for and organized in a way that makes plans easy to visualize each plan.

Technically, there is very little content. A few pages to explain the design concepts, a few pages of a key to reading the plans, and the bulk of the book is the same walls with different layouts. Honestly, the author could have sat down with a drawing program and just tweaked one design into another, into another, into another. While the content doesn't seem like much, it was exactly what I needed. I was able to compare multiple ideas and really decide what features were most important to me. When the time comes, I'll buy this book. Small investment for good inspiration.

[Ryder Aster · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great book for those who want to build a small house on a foundation. Not for me, since I plan to build on a trailer.

But great tips I learned: consider the location of the door and the path it creates. "Paths divides interior spaces." Consider including a utility closet into the floor plan- a space where gas hot water heaters and off-grid batteries are hidden outside the house. Kind of like a small shed. Consider plumbing- design so that all the major plumbing are in one general area- you'll save $$ and time when installing.

[Jill Springstead · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've been interested in Tiny Houses since I saw a documentary on a prison that is making tiny houses for low income senior housing. It provides job skills for the inmates and housing for at risk seniors. By keeping the houses small the seniors are able to live on their own longer because they have less to upkeep. If I ever win the lottery, I would like to sponsor such a program.

This book has lots of layouts that shows all different sizes. If we end up buying a tiny home I would use this book to figure out the best use of space in the house.

[Mark Polino · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is what it says it is. A book of interior designs, not building blueprints. I would have loved some explanation of why a particular layout was built. Is there a scenario where having a kitchen in the back offers advantages over placing it on the side? I don't have to agree with the reason, I'd just like to know that there was some.

[Patty]

I love your book

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is really just a huge book of floor plans for tiny homes (so good title!). What I appreciated most was the way the author showed different layouts.