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City of San Diego Approves Tiny Homes as Affordable Housing Option

Residents of San Diego County are all too aware that affordable housing has become increasingly difficult to come by. The average home price in San Diego is around $675,000, while a typical one bedroom apartment costs about $2,000 a month in rent. Heck, even renting a room is pricey. With homelessness on the rise, and a pandemic threatening the livelihoods of so many, a solution to the affordable housing crisis is long overdue. 

Topics: tiny homes tiny house design tinyhouse

Frame your tiny house in a day!

So you want to build a tiny home or a small modular home. Well, now you can frame it yourself in a day or so with a few friends! It's like a modern-day barn-raising, and we are here to make it simple and fast. Here's how it works:

Topics: lightweight steel framing tiny house design tiny house kit tinyhouse

Award Winning Collaboration

Sheena Henry and Ross Pennington's award winning tiny house on wheels, 'Method to NOMADness', has been judged 'Best Collaborative Build' at the recent 2018 Georgia Tiny House Festival.  The collaborators?  Sheena & Ross, Tiny House Chattanooga and Volstrukt.

Topics: steel framing tiny house design tiny house kit tinyhouse cold form steel

Comparing Tiny House Trailers

As steel framing specialist for the tiny house industry, we’ve been uniquely positioned to build on customers' trailers from all across the nation.

Most  Tiny House builders find one trailer manufacturer and stick to them. Others have gone the route of designing their own tiny house trailer and sticking with that. There are also a handful of trailer manufacturers out there who, although they may produce high volumes of trailers, really only experience their own trailers for the industry.

Topics: lightweight steel framing tiny house steel kit tiny house trailer tiny house foundation tiny house design