A huge perk of living in a tiny house is that you can easily afford the home design of your dreams. Whether you build a tiny home on a permanent foundation or your tiny house on wheels gets overtaken on the road, a tastefully designed tiny house exterior is definitely going to be an eye-catcher.
If you haven’t settled on your house design yet, let’s take a look at the most attractive tiny house exteriors that won’t break the bank.
How to choose a tiny home exterior?
Durability
Many tiny homes are built on wheels, so they can give you all the comfort of the modern living space wherever you choose to go.
These homes need to be built with extra durability to ensure they can travel from one location to another, without sustaining damage or falling apart. To this end, you need to choose house materials that can handle the climate of any region you move to.
For example, not all siding materials can handle heat or cold, so choosing the wrong siding can make your tiny house not as versatile and road-worthy as you’d like it to be.
Low maintenance
Many people choose tiny homes because the smaller house is easier to keep up and maintain than a traditional house. By choosing a house siding that is low maintenance and resistant to peeling, chipping, or flaking, you can enjoy the tiny house lifestyle without worrying about remodeling every 5-6 years.
Aesthetics
Just because your home is small, it doesn’t mean it can’t have the curb appeal of those towering mansions at the end of the street.
This is why many tiny house owners choose exterior materials that can make their homes stand out and look best in all seasons.
Whether you’re moving from one place to another, want to turn heads on the road, or building a tiny house with a permanent foundation, it’s important to match it to its surroundings.
A tiny house with craftsman-style windows and wooden siding would be an eyesore in any urban environment, in which case you’re better off with vinyl and asphalt shingles.
On the other hand, in the countryside, a tiny home with corrugated steel walls and a roof could look like a surveyor’s outer office. When it comes to the appearance, color, textures, and style of your home, it’s important to follow your dream but also think about the surroundings.
Real wood siding
Ask any tiny house manufacturer what the most common siding type for tiny houses is and they’ll tell you — cedar. Cedar wood is extremely weather-resistant, and lightweight, and looks great both painted and stained.
Depending on what you’re looking to achieve, you can choose wooden siding as:
Board and batten
Shiplap
Natural materials like wood are popular in the tiny house movement, especially with the craftsman-style tiny houses.
Wooden exterior walls made of cedar wood look amazing with natural wood flooring and white walls. If you don’t like standard cedar siding, you can choose white cedar, red cedar, or Douglas fir. Your house builder can use these for either house siding or dark wood flooring.
Unfortunately, the major downside with using wood as the exterior material is the potential bug damage, as well as pest infestation.