Perfectly situated on a quiet end lot with exceptional privacy, the brand-new SHORELINE at Lot 23 in Canoe Bay Village overlooks the beautiful waters of Lost Lake in the Northwoods of Wisconsin and delivers panoramic views, outstanding comfort, and a long list of custom upgrades designed for effortless lakefront living. From the dramatic window wall to the spacious screened porch, the water is always front and center — and with no HOA fees and no property taxes, ownership here is refreshingly simple. Let’s take a closer look.
The latest issue of Tiny House Magazine is out, and Issue #162 is a little different from the usual build tours. This one is all about the people behind tiny living, with honest, personal stories about letting go, accessibility, and what “enough” really means.
After touring the gable-roofed Lukas, we’re staying in Craft House’s modular range with its single-pitch sibling, the Samuel. This 10-meter modular house from the Polish builder takes a different tack: a low shed roof, a warm spruce-lined interior in place of marble and white, and one of the most generous lofts in the lineup — a full 13-square-meter mezzanine over a 26-square-meter ground floor that already includes a private bedroom. The result is a cabin-like modern home with real separation between sleeping and living, finished for year-round use.
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You can frame the walls, hang the cedar, and build the dreamiest little kitchen on wheels (or on a foundation) — but the moment the sun goes down, none of it matters if you can’t turn on a light, charge your laptop, or keep the fridge cold. Power is the part of a van conversion or tiny house build that quietly makes or breaks the whole project.
And it’s also the part that scares people the most. Volts, amps, watt-hours, charge controllers, “will this thing catch fire?” — the electrical system is where a lot of first-time builders freeze up, overspend, or end up with a Frankenstein setup of mismatched parts that never quite works.
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Here’s the good news: you don’t have to be an electrician to get this right. You just need a system that’s designed to work together — and that’s exactly the gap Renogy fills. Below, we’ll break down the off-grid power setup we’d recommend to anyone building out a van or a tiny home, what each piece actually does in plain English, and how to skip months of YouTube rabbit holes.
Up to now we’ve toured Craft House’s lineup of mobile tiny homes on wheels, but the Polish builder also makes a larger modular range — and the Lukas is a standout. At 10 meters long and 3.5 meters wide, this gable-roofed modular house wraps 28.2 square meters around something most tiny homes have to choose between: a real ground-floor bedroom and a skylit sleeping mezzanine up top. Add a full island kitchen with a dishwasher, a marble bathroom with a washing machine, underfloor heating, and triple-glazed windows, and the Lukas feels far more like a compact modern house than a downsized one.
The Surya is the top of Simplify Further Tiny Homes’ lineup — the one built less like a tiny house and more like a small, single-level home. At 32 feet long (in an 8- or 10-foot width) it stretches to 256 square feet with no loft to climb to: instead, a main-floor queen bedroom with sliding glass doors, an open living room, a full kitchen with a real range and a stackable washer/dryer, and a spa-style bathroom all sit on one level. Built near Lake Butler in North Central Florida and pitched as “a comfortable and luxurious design, perfect for long-term living or a gorgeous short-term rental,” it sleeps two to four and starts around $75,000. Let’s take the tour.
The Surya tiny house by Simplify Further Tiny Homes. Images courtesy of Simplify Further Tiny Homes.
Most tiny houses promise the freedom to go anywhere, but few are actually built to live anywhere. The Off-Grid model from Poland’s Craft House is the rare one that genuinely is: a compact 6-meter home on a dual-axle trailer that pairs a roof full of solar panels with a real wood-burning cook stove, so it can keep the lights on and dinner warm whether or not there’s a hookup in sight. With a charcoal standing-seam shell, warm thermo-pine siding, and a bright Scandinavian-spruce interior, it looks every bit as good parked in a manicured garden as it would tucked into the woods.
The Honeycomb Office Farmhand is Rolling Bear Tiny Homes’ rugged take on the mobile office—a 16-by-8.5-foot log-cabin tiny house on wheels built for farmers, makers, and outdoor professionals, packing a real workspace, a wood-stove-warmed living area, a kitchen with a sink, fridge, and burner, a private bedroom, a full bathroom, and a loft into a modular, easy-to-relocate package that’s priced between roughly $79,000 and $89,000.
The Goa is Simplify Further Tiny Homes’ answer to a simple question: how close can a tiny house get to a real home without the mortgage? Built near Lake Butler in North Central Florida, this 24-foot tiny house on wheels packs 252 square feet, two queen sleeping lofts, a genuinely large kitchen with a full-size range and a washer/dryer, and a full bathroom with the option of a soaking tub. The company pitches it as “a custom-built, luxurious-feeling home, without the mortgage,” and the bright-blue cabinetry and warm pine finishes here back that up — it sleeps four to five and works for full-time living or as a standout rental. Starting around $65,000, let’s take the tour.
The Goa tiny house by Simplify Further Tiny Homes. Images courtesy of Simplify Further Tiny Homes.
