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Golden hour view through the open Dutch door of a tiny house — warm plywood interior, cast-iron kettle on a two-burner stove, lofted bed above, open meadow dissolving into mist beyond

Member build · Ojai, CA

248 sq ft · 14 months to build

A place for builders, dreamers & the already-living-tiny

Less house.
More life.

You found it. The corner of the internet where 400 square feet is enough — where people share the floorplans, the wiring diagrams, and the mistakes they made so you don't have to.

Couples on graph paper. Remote workers with a shipping container and a dream. Empty-nesters building the last home they'll ever need.

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4,200+ members already inside

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01 / Conviction

"We believe a home should cost less than a car."

The average tiny house build runs $30,000–$60,000. The average new car costs $48,000. Somewhere along the way, we decided a mortgage was just how it worked. It isn't. Members here have built for $22k. One family did it for $14k and a lot of weekends.

$38k

Average Dwell member build cost

A hand-built tiny house on wheels parked in a sunlit meadow, warm golden hour light on cedar siding

02 / Conviction

"We believe you can build it with your own hands."

Every member of Dwell started where you are — with graph paper, a YouTube rabbit hole, and more ambition than expertise. That's exactly enough.

This floorplan was drawn by Mara & Tom Chen of Portland, Oregon — their 312 sq ft trailer build, completed in 11 months.

312

square feet

$38k

total build cost

Chen Build · Portland, OR · 2024

1/4" = 1'

Living12×10Kitchen8×6Bath5×6Loft12×8StorageN10 ft

"The loft is the whole secret. You sleep in the sky and live on the ground."

— Mara Chen

03 / The People

"We believe community is the best blueprint."

Every face here is a finished build, a work in progress, or a dream still being sketched. They all started with the same question you're asking right now.

Their mistakes are in the forum. Their floorplans are in the library. Their wins are in the photos.

4,200+

Members

860+

Builds shared

1,400+

Floorplans

38

US states

Sofia and Marcus inside their converted shipping container home, warm light through porthole windows

Sofia & Marcus

Asheville, NC · 320 sq ft

Tiny house on wheels in a green meadow at sunset

The Meadow Build

Taos, NM · 248 sq ft

Interior of a hand-built cabin with warm plywood walls and morning light

Cedar Cabin

Bend, OR · 280 sq ft

Remote worker at desk inside a converted van with mountain views through the window

James Okafor

Remote · Colorado · Van conversion

Couple standing in front of their finished tiny house on wheels, smiling

Priya & Dev Patel

Austin, TX · 264 sq ft

Cozy lofted sleeping area in a tiny home with skylight above

The Loft Life

Vermont · 198 sq ft

Warm interior of a finished tiny house — morning light on plywood walls, a steaming mug on the windowsill

"The workshop is already full of people who want to help you build. The door is open."

— Dwell Founding Member

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