Tiny House Design & Construction Guide: Your Guide to Building a Mortgage Free, Environmentally Sustainable Home Paperback – May 1, 2016

I have some experience handling power tools to make wooden furnitures and electrical installations, and I can say this book is amazing. It gives you all the important info you need to start building your own tiny Home. It doesn't have plans but you can easily make them yourself by drawing them if you already know the distribution you want to have for your tiny Home. And if you don't know where to start, take a look on the internet to give you some good ideas. There are also websites with plans for people to quickly download. The only negative thing I can say about this book is that it didn't arrive with protection. The book was unwrapped in the bottom of the box, risking further damage in transit. It has some damages on the corners though and for being someone who really take care of her books, that was a little disappointed, but in the end the info that is in it is what really matters to me.

Dan Louche's Tiny House Design and Construction Guide is definitely a keeper and I will be referencing it throughout my building process. Great for a newbie (me!). It covers every aspect of building a tiny, with good images and clear instructions. I only wish I had purchased it earlier during my research phase. I have also purchased Dan's online eWorkshop series at Tiny Home Builders...another "can't do without it" in my reference library.Thank you Dan for your many contributions to the Tiny House community!!!

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.

My husband and I have been working on our own tiny house. We were getting so tired of tiny home books that just had pictures for inspiration. We originally found this book at the library and when I found it on here I had to order it for my husband. It has very useful information for beginners to experts with a little bit of everything in it. It is one of my husband's favorite books. We definitely recommend this for anyone who is serious about building their own tiny home with their own hands.

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.

I purchased this book to help me flesh out the building details on a possible tiny house I am wanting to build. This resource was just what I was looking for. It is detailed with plenty of pictures and diagrams that help explain the process of plumbing, electrical and well as general construction details. I would highly recommend this book for anyone looking to build their own tiny house or even those just thinking about it.

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.