Innovative Builders + Designs

With tiny spaces comes ingenuity and innovation. The evolution of the tiny home market is seriously exciting, bringing us not just clever and eco-friendly designs but also speedy benefits. Less time and resources used in construction mean a big leap forward in tackling the US housing shortage. Check out some of the unique builders in the space.

Boxabl

Imagine you’re five years old and about to open your doll house (or your cousin’s) to see what the tiny plastic occupants have been doing overnight. Unfold, unfold, lift up and it’s open. Now, imagine your new home sets up in the same fashion! Boxabl produces foldable homes including everything a home needs - full-size kitchen, appliances, standard bathroom, living room and washer/dryer - and can be unfolded at the buyer’s location in under an hour.

Boxabl offers modular dwellings compact to deliver and easy to ‘snap’ together for design variation. We especially like Boxabl for their mission to accelerate the building and home ownership process and timeline by lowering home costs through mass, assembly-line production methods, just like car production. Speaking of car production, Elon Musk purchased a Boxabl casita. For about $50,000, you, too, can have your real-life unfoldable dollhouse.

Boxabl states they struck a $9.2 million deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and also announced a partnership with homebuilder D.R. Horton Inc.

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ICON

ICON 3D homebuilder is pioneering home construction using robotic systems to efficiently build homes with less waste, high quality, and faster timelines. Homes can withstand extreme weather, termites, and fire. Similar to Boxabl, ICON leverages machinery and automation to accelerate production, with the intent to lower housing costs without sacrificing design. While ICON doesn’t limit their design to tiny home size floorplans, we do appreciate their efforts to reduce the heavy burden of home construction and ownership.

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Atomic Homes

If you loved Tinkertoys, then you may love how Atomic Homes is utilizing CNC (computer numerical control) machine-cutting and plywood 'snap-in' methods, which compared to stick frame building means a house can be completed in as little as 4 weeks. More construction brilliance that saves on traditional construction labor, timelines, and cost.

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