Tiny Home Kits You Can Build Yourself One Wall At A Time
Tiny Homes, more in demand than ever before, provide shelter and mental health benefits, including self-worth and pride of homeownership. Besides improving neighborhoods, tiny homes also help homeowners make their house payments. Tiny homes can be crane-lifted over current residences. Joy to the Home, a new building company in Orange County, California, builds Tiny Home Kits designed to snap together one wall at a time. Shipped in a box, the tiny homes are carried onsite one wall at a time. As a result, these small homes don’t require an expensive crane. Plus, the box can be used for a storage shed. You can also pack your tiny house up and move it.
Many states like California changed residential laws and regulations, making Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) legal and affordable with low-cost building permits. California homeowners are now allowed to add TWO ADUs on a single-family zoned property. According to the new guidelines, one must be a complete ADU and the other a JADU (Junior), which can be created by converting a part of the existing residence. A JADU can not be larger than 500 square feet. For building two ADUs, the first tiny home’s maximum size requirements must be at least 850 square feet and 1,000 square feet for ADUs with more than one bedroom. Units above 500 sq ft may be subject to school permit fees. ADUs built within a jurisdiction that lacks a local ordinance must comply with state standards.
An ADU must have a minimum living area of 150 square feet. A California city is required to approve any attached or detached ADU under 1200 square feet unless the city adopts a new ADU ordinance setting local government standards for a single-family zoned lot.
Many builders offer Tiny Houses for sale for about $50,000 and up. Most have a many-month waiting period. Joy to the Home builds unusual homes using Design Psychology principles for happy living. Not only are their tiny houses unique, but they also come in a box and cost thousands of dollars less than other manufacturers. Of course, you can also have a builder put yours together for you. You will need plumbing, electrical, and other professionals to connect utilities. Talk to one of Joy to the Home’s designers or builders for a custom plan just for you.
Joy to the Home also aids with financing like a conventional home. Most homeowners don’t need a down payment. If you own a lot or have family with land, we also can get you financing for your one-of-a-kind Tiny Home. Municipalities can’t block the construction of Tiny Houses like they used to. The new laws make it easier to build an ADU, no matter how your lot and home are situated.
Please call Jeanette Joy Fisher, California licensed Realtor and former Design Psychology university instructor, to help you find a home suitable for ADUs or to design a new outstanding Tiny Home on your budget. (714) 213-0354
Because Joy to the Home’s Tiny Homes are transported in a box instead of by truck, they can be wider than 8 feet. The extra feet give owners more space than a typical tiny house. Also, these more spacious tiny homes fulfill Design Psychology size requirements for happy living.
Click on the photos below for a few ideas. Jeanette has been designing fantastical homes for 40 years. She and her late husband, featured on TLC TV, fixed & flipped houses. She is constantly finding magical and bargain house parts for her projects. You might just fall in love with one ready to be boxed up!
