Who wouldn’t love to tour the country in their mobile home? Let us make this scenario even more appealing by adding the extra benefits of “no car or home insurance needed”. Does it sound better now?
Well, it is a common dream of people to be able to tour their country in their portable home, but only a few actually manage to realize this dream due to the expenses that such an endeavor involves.
Paul Elkins, though, found a way to create his tiny home and tow it with his bike, moving from place to place enjoying his nomadic holidays.
Former Boeing employee, inventor, and self-taught designer, Elkins fell for micro-camping in 2002, when he toured the country in a pickup truck with cabover turned tiny home.
A few years later, he decided to take on a challenging but fun project, building a portable micro-shelter, based on the Airstream trailer design and the Emergency Homeless Shelter he had already built before.
If you’re wondering how he did it, here’s a little insight into his project.
The walls of his teeny tiny home are made of four fluted-plastic campaign signs. He also bought a second-hand bike for $20, 6 pine boards ($1 at Home Depot), screws, Duct tape, and zip ties, all of which cost him a total of $150.
In the video below, Elkins explains how he built his tiny home, but for those who are really keen on undertaking this project, the designer has a 61-page tutorial that can be downloaded for $20. Pretty inexpensive, right?
Now, as for what the micro-home includes, that is pretty awesome. In there, you can find pretty much anything you can ask for, but in tiny size.
More, specifically, there’s a comfy bed, which takes up most of the room inside the micro-trailer, which also works as a sofa. Around it, you can find lots of stuff one needs to have on hand when traveling or while on holidays in general.
In the “kitchen area”, there’s a butane stove, used to either cook inside or outside the “house”, several mini shelves and drawers, where Elkins stores spices, cutlery, and what not. There’s also room for him to cut his veggies and a cute sink that basically consists of a baking pan.
Of course, there’s storage space for his clothes and his tools, which are necessary when he’s on the road all the time.
And, what about entertainment?
Elkins has that covered, too. Besides the tiny bookcase he has created next to his bed, he also has a stereo with MP3 player so that he can listen to his favorite songs while relaxing during the day.
And, for those who are wondering if it’s claustrophobic in there, Elkins has the answer.
No, it’s not, thanks to the two small windows he has opened up, and the skylight for which he used a 1-gallon plastic tub. Of course, at night there is light in the room, thanks to the LED lights he has put in there.
Does this whole thing sound impossible? Well, all you need to do is to head on over to the YouTube video, and you’ll see for yourself how this man built his tiny but functional portable holiday house.
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