Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company is a company in Sebastopol, California that designs and builds small houses between 50 and 750 square feet (5 and 70 m2), many of which are mobile homes with built-in wheels — shipped via truck to consumers. The company also offers larger designs as floor plans.
Tumbleweed is part of the small house movement. In 2002, Tumbleweed's owner, Jay Shaefer, co-founded the Small House Society[1] in Iowa City, Iowa. In 2003, he was commissioned by Gregory Paul Johnson,[2] Small House Society co-founder,[3] to build The Mobile Hermitage[4], which became one of Tumbleweed's first commercially sold homes. Some Tumbleweed customers use the buildings as extensions to their houses, business offices, or vacation cabins. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a few were sold to Gulf Coast residents who preferred them to government-supplied temporary housing.[5]
In 2009, Shaefer published The Small House Book.
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- ^ Small House Society
- ^ Gregory Paul Johnson
- ^ "The Next Little Thing?". The New York Times, Steven Kurutz, September 10, 2008. 2008-09-11. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11tiny.html?scp=5&sq=%22jay%20shafer%22&st=cse.
- ^ The Mobile Hermitage
- ^ Cheryl Corley (May 15, 2006), Tiny Houses Find a Friend on the Gulf Coast, National Public Radio, http://www.npr.org/2006/05/15/5366823/tiny-houses-find-a-friend-on-the-gulf-coast
- Kurutz, Steven (2008-09-10). "The Next Little Thing?". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11tiny.html. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
- Style, Small House (2008-09-09). "Jay Shafer and the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company make small… BIG". Small House Style. http://www.smallhousestyle.com/2008/09/09/jay-shafer-and-the-tumbleweed-tiny-house-company/. Retrieved 2008-09-09.
- LeMoult, Craig (2006-03-31). "Anti-McMansions have every comfort of home". Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/yourplace/chi-0603310253mar31,1,5733861.story?ctrack=1&cset=true. Retrieved 2006-04-01.[dead link]
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