Friday, December 2, 2016
Wishbone Tiny Home
Here's a well crafted tiny home from Wishbone Tiny Homes, an Asheville, North Carolina based tiny home building company consisting of a father and son team, Gerry and Teal Brown.
If you're a tiny home fan, you'll recognize a lot of the vocabulary of this home as being derived from Four Lights Tiny Homes and Tumbleweed Tiny Homes, but Wishbone has put their own unique twist on it, and some of their contributions are noteworthy. For example, look at the door in the photo above. It appears significantly wider than the doors you'll find in end walls of most tiny homes. It's also handcrafted by the father in this father and son building team with a combined total of more than 40 years in the building business.
It's immediately obvious that the level of craftsmanship in this Wishbone tiny home is exceptional. One detail that quickly caught my attention is the type and installation of the water heater. It's a propane fired tankless heater, cleverly mounted in the wall that separates the kitchen from the bathroom.
Tiny living requires some compromises, and one of those compromises typically is an RV water heater with a six gallon capacity. Tankless water heaters will provide endless hot water until the gas source runs out, so if you want to wash some dishes and enjoy an unhurried shower afterward you can, without fear that the hot water will run out before you get the shampoo out of your hair.
The kitchen has ample counter space. The wall cabinets provide lots of open storage, while the base cabinets provide all kinds of enclosed storage. The water heater in many tiny homes takes-up quite a bit of that under counter space, but not in this home.
Check out their site, and learn about their "three step process" through the link below...
In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, the photo credits in this post all go to Chris Tack. I understand they were taken at a tiny house conference. Learn more here... tinyhouseconference.com
If you're a tiny home fan, you'll recognize a lot of the vocabulary of this home as being derived from Four Lights Tiny Homes and Tumbleweed Tiny Homes, but Wishbone has put their own unique twist on it, and some of their contributions are noteworthy. For example, look at the door in the photo above. It appears significantly wider than the doors you'll find in end walls of most tiny homes. It's also handcrafted by the father in this father and son building team with a combined total of more than 40 years in the building business.
It's immediately obvious that the level of craftsmanship in this Wishbone tiny home is exceptional. One detail that quickly caught my attention is the type and installation of the water heater. It's a propane fired tankless heater, cleverly mounted in the wall that separates the kitchen from the bathroom.
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| Note the tankless hot water heater mounted in the wall to the left of the sink. Brilliant. |
The kitchen has ample counter space. The wall cabinets provide lots of open storage, while the base cabinets provide all kinds of enclosed storage. The water heater in many tiny homes takes-up quite a bit of that under counter space, but not in this home.
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| The bathroom features a full sized shower and a Nature's Head composting toilet. |
Check out their site, and learn about their "three step process" through the link below...
wishbonetinyhomes.com
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