Yet another tiny houseis shown on KQED News, built by Sonoma County resident and law student Joel Fleck. There is a photo of Joel inside sitting in his loft and barely fitting under the roof. Last summer he took it to a Tiny House Fair where it was lined up with a gaggle of tiny houses on display. The majority of them looked pretty much like each other, little boxes on the hillside.

I blame Jay Shafer. He pretty much invented the tiny house thing, and most of them have looked like his ever since. But if you are going to build a sleeping loft, the traditional gable roof doesn't make a lot of sense.

Laird Herbert designed his tiny Leaf House with a shed roof that went front to back. This gave him a generous loft with consistent head height right across. He designed the inside of it like a yacht. On the same size platform as most tiny houses, he gets a whole lot more room.



Even Jay Shafer has moved on from the tiny house in the wilderness thing. He tells KQED about his proposed Napoleon Complex development: