Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
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Tumbleweed Tiny House Company is a company in Sebastopol, California
that designs and builds small houses between 50 and 750 sq ft (4.6 and 69.7 m2), many of which are mobile homes with built-in wheels — shipped via truck to consumers. The company also offers larger designs as floor plan
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In 2002, Tumbleweed's owner, Jay Shafer, co-founded the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa
. In 2003, he was commissioned by Gregory Paul Johnson, Small House Society co-founder, to build The Mobile Hermitage, which became one of Tumbleweed's first commercially sold homes. In 2009, Shafer published The Small House Book.
Sebastopol, California
Sebastopol is a city in Sonoma County, California, United States, approximately north of San Francisco. The population was 7,379 at the 2010 census, but its businesses also serve surrounding rural portions of Sonoma County, totaling about 50,000 people...
that designs and builds small houses between 50 and 750 sq ft (4.6 and 69.7 m2), many of which are mobile homes with built-in wheels — shipped via truck to consumers. The company also offers larger designs as floor plan
Floor plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan, or floorplan, is a diagram, usually to scale, showing a view from above of the relationships between rooms, spaces and other physical features at one level of a structure....
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In 2002, Tumbleweed's owner, Jay Shafer, co-founded the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City is a city in Johnson County, State of Iowa. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of about 67,862, making it the sixth-largest city in the state. Iowa City is the county seat of Johnson County and home to the University of Iowa...
. In 2003, he was commissioned by Gregory Paul Johnson, Small House Society co-founder, to build The Mobile Hermitage, which became one of Tumbleweed's first commercially sold homes. In 2009, Shafer published The Small House Book.