Laurén Ettinger
- Jun 13, 2022
- 2 min read

All Things Tiny: Design, Building, Parking, and Financing

What’s in Today’s Episode:

Lindsay Wood, The Tiny Home Lady, and our very own tiny guru, Allison Shea, share their vast knowledge of tiny homes! They discuss their personal tiny journeys, how to travel with your tiny house, tiny home legality and parking, building, financing, and so much more. You cannot skip this article if you are planning on going tiny!!

What Lindsay and Allison Chat About:

Lindsay shares her story of deciding to go tiny and all the many things that went wrong
How she went from a professional custom build to an unexpected DIY
Finding out they were overweight to pull their tiny house after they had begun to tow it
Legal tiny house clearance height for traveling across the United States
Her biggest takeaway from her experience hiring a builder, having to do a last-minute DIY, and beginning to travel with her tiny
Tackling the wild world of tiny home parking and legality
Zoning and discrimination
Where tiny homes and accessory dwelling units have been legalized in the United States
The four types of tiny homes and how those affect legality
The benefits of factory-built or kit homes versus local builders
A few ways can you reduce costs to make going tiny more affordable
DIY vs. hybrid vs. professional builder
How to finance a tiny house
Benefits of going tiny
Ways to figure out your tiny house design
Multifunctional furniture, light paint colors, and lots of natural light!

“[People who want to DIY], I’m all for that, just know that you probably want to assume a longer build time right out of the gate unless you are quitting your job and going full steam ahead and you’ve got the right people to come out and teach you and all that kind of stuff.”

“Go and visit the build. If you can’t visit the build…make sure you’re getting pictures. Communication, communication, communication, not just with people you are romantic with, in relationships with people that you are putting a sizable amount of money into their hands.”