[Cypress – Tumbleweed Tiny House Co.] Could you get rid of everything that owns you and live in 400 square feet or less with just the true essentials? Might you be one of those contemporary visionaries, like tiny house pioneer Jay Shafer, who finds that “Extra stuff and extra square footage dilutes a sense of vitality”?
The tiny house movement is on a roll, and whether you decide to feather your cozy nest on wheels or on a foundation, Colorado has an abundance of tiny home resources from which to choose. And for those that want to get their feet wet, consider renting a travel trailer in Denver. You can then get used to towing it and living on or off grid.
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, Colorado Springs
Elm – Tumbleweed Tiny House Co.
A Tumbleweed Tiny House is a certified Recreational Vehicle (RV) that provides superior comfort and total portability. Headquartered in Sonoma, California, with the showroom and construction operations in Colorado Springs, these revolutionary travel trailers offer four popular models ranging in size from 117 to 172 square feet.
Sunset from the Cypress kitchen.
The company will deliver your Tumbleweed right to your door, help you build it, and even teach you every single thing you need to know about constructing your own model in a two-day, Dream Big, Live Tiny Workshop.
Presented by actual Tumbleweed owners who built their own homes, these hands-on intensives are staged in several locations around the country, providing the perfect like-minded immersion experience designed to inspire others to take the big/small leap.
Tiny Diamond Homes, Morrison
Tiny Diamond Homes.
Master carpenter Steven Coates, his wife Cheryl, and their four adult sons pour their hearts and souls into Tiny Diamond. The intimacy of this home buying and designing experience includes meeting you at the airport holding a sign with your name on it, sharing your design visions over a Cheryl-cooked meal, and helping you choose your fixtures, lights, sinks, showers, and toilets. They’ll even refund $500 of your plane fare if you do purchase from them and take you to Red Rocks if time permits!
Living room.
Kitchen and bathroom.
The company has developed a patent-pending trailer specifically engineered to safely tow their homes. Between Steven’s 37+ years in the building industry and the personal attention of the entire Coates family lovingly doting on your project, partnering with Tiny Diamond Homes in Morrison is sure to yield big results.
Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses, Durango
Photo: Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses
Greg Parham, Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses founder, is happy to discuss your prospective home’s design as you mountain bike down a Durango trail. Parham is a passionate cyclist and lives in his own tiny home on the Animas River with pooch Rocco. His house serves as his design and marketing office as well as the company’s model, traveling to trade shows and hosting by-appointment open houses for visitors.
Greg Parham’s Tiny House.
Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses offers a few models Parham can replicate for you, but his decade in architectural design gives him a true zeal for coming up with custom plans that match his customers’ visions. He is quick to point out that he actually lives and works in a tiny house himself, through harsh, snowy winters and sizzling Southwest summers.
Parham will partner with you on the design process if you want to build it yourself (providing consultations if needed), or you can hire him to execute the construction. He confines his focus to highway legal tiny houses on wheels (THOW) with specific size limitations. Parham thrives on the design challenge presented by the smaller space, and in true tiny house movement spirit, opts for quality and affordability over quantity and complexity. Less space makes room for more life!
Sprout Tiny Homes
Sprout Tiny Homes built in La Junta.
Got chemical sensitivities? Sprout’s your answer! All models from this innovative manufacturer are built with high performance, energy efficient SIPs (structural insulated panels) and feature chemical-free interiors. In collaborative partnership with Seattle’s GreenPod Development, Sprout’s interiors use only “sustainable, socially responsible, and traceable sourced materials”:
- Textiles from suppliers who provide safe manufacturing and work environments
- Low impact dyes safe for use around babies, children, and pets
- Eco-conscious fabrics and textiles derived from organic cotton, hemp, bamboo, bio-wool, and tobacco plants
- Organic sheets, towels, beds, cushions, curtains, and rugs
- Customizable, modular furniture
Sprout.
Flex Pods are a new addition to Sprout’s product line — low maintenance, 100-200-square-foot units perfect for off-the-grid use as a potting shed; an artist, massage, or sauna studio; or an envy-of-the-neighborhood, back yard playhouse for little ones. The company is an active and engaged advocate, helping to persuade several Colorado cities to draft tiny-house-friendly ordinances.
Wee Casa Hotel, Lyons
Two Wee Casas.
Living area.
Lofted bedroom.
First floor bed.
If you’re interested in these tiny homes, mark the date for the Tiny House Jamboree, which happens each summer in Colorado Springs. Reserve consultations, buy/sell, view the latest models from pro builders, hear from keynote speakers and builders awards.
For more inspiration, Tiny Spaces Living shares these 5 tiny houses that range from contemporary to cabin. All are modern and stunning, and unique to each owner’s flair and interest.
Read the previous Made in Colorado or see them all.
