Pied-à-Trailer ?

To become mainstream, the tiny home, what might amusingly be termed the 'pied-à-trailer', is probably best packaged to work 'turnkey', is best delivered ready to be lived in as is the RV. Let's face it, there's no greater nuisance, nothing is so daunting as the burden of furnishing the unfurnished home. Now because the tiny home is still in the experimental stage, it presents the possibility to overcome many of the deficiencies of traditional tract housing which in addition to lacking furnishings is often short on outdoor privacy / outdoor living. This situation is a golden opportunity for the tiny home. Pair it with a pleasant, private courtyard, convenient built-ins, and practical furnishings and it becomes a versatile housing solution, a solution one could expect to be much preferred to the apartment complex.

Though small, the courtyard depicted above offers relaxed, pleasant, outdoor living often absent even in the larger tract home - and completely unavailable in the multifamily apartment building. The tiny home is well suited to the housing needs of single people especially when outfitted with courtyard, storage shed, and parking place. And with the quadplex manufactured home with four apartments per chassis there is great efficiency in installation, set up, and utility connection. As shown, the quadplex is around 74' long, a little more than 18' wide.

Shown in the drawings is a generic combination sofa bed as the tiny home is too small for separate bed and sofa. An innovative company called Luonto makes a range of sofa convertibles about which much more is in this video:

The drawings show a tankless electric hot water heater hung on the wall above the toilet. These are great space savers and simplifiers of design. A review of such water heaters is given in this video:

The mini-split HVAC is ideal for the tiny home. This video reviews the pros and cons of 5 manufacturers. Note that the typical refrigerant lines are around 15 feet. Longer lines may be needed if the condenser is mounted to the privacy wall in the driveway as shown in the drawings.