Just because tiny houses are, well, tiny doesn't mean that you have to go on the downsizing adventure all by your lonesome or only in pairs. Tiny houses can also be suitable for large families, and you need look no further than the Brazilian Manor to see it.
Brazilian Manor is one of the models built by California-based maker KJE Tiny Homes. Introduced in 2021 as a custom unit, it's also a very popular model with clients, and a single look at it will offer whatever explanation for that still necessary. This is a massive tiny house with plenty of features and space for a large family. It's quite a looker, too.
Tiny living started picking up speed in the early 2000s, but it gained incredible popularity over the past few years, as working from home, the desire to travel more, and the housing and financial crisis had their say in people's housing options. Tiny houses are small, which means lower monthly costs, and they're cheaper than brick-and-mortar homes. Assuming you can buy one on financing, you won't be looking at a lifetime of mortgage payments.
Above all, tiny houses are mobile, which helps with their incredible appeal. Most of them can be towed with a standard passenger car without special permits, which means you can go wherever you want (and you're legally allowed to) with your home and your family in tow. Since you're no longer tied to the land, you can make "home" wherever and thus combine work and travel in the best way possible.
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And then, there are park-model tiny houses like the Brazilian Manor. Park model tinies are still mobile but can only be moved by special permit because they're wider than the standard 8 feet (2.4 meters). To compensate, they offer a considerably larger footprint, which, in return, means more home-worthy features, increased comfort, and more space for the fam.
The Brazilian Manor, for one, truly lives up to its name. It sits on a triple-axle trailer and uses the gooseneck configuration to further expand living space up to a total of 400 square feet (37.2 square feet) – a true feat for tiny living. It's long (40 feet/12.2 meters) and wide (10 feet (3 meters)), so it's the ideal canvas on which KJE Tiny Homes paints a family home for six people, complete with a residential kitchen and proper bathroom. Make that a luxury bathroom.
A larger footprint allows for less compromising, so there's little of it in the layout of the kitchen or the bathroom. As you must know, if you've been keeping up with tiny living, most tinies will adopt the smallest yet still functional layout for either space. But for this particular model, KJE Tiny Homes goes supersize.
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The bathroom is the real highlight of the home, featuring plenty of space to fit a toilet, a walk-in shower with a cabin, a washing station, additional storage, and a standalone bathtub. Tubs are a rarity in tiny houses on considerations of space, but this one is a nice exception. This is also the first tiny with a tub from this particular builder.
Brazilian Manor offers three bedrooms thanks to a dual-loft design. The main bedroom is on the ground floor, while the other two are lofted areas that could be used as storage rooms or a secondary living room. The main living room is on the ground floor, next to the kitchen, centered around a gorgeous wood-burning stove.
One loft sits over the master bedroom, while the other is in the gooseneck part of the house. This is where you're in for another surprise because access to it is done through a walk-in stand-in wardrobe, another rarity in a tiny home. Every area in the house has at least one type of storage available – downsize if you want, but you still need the basics in terms of clothing and shoes, and it has to go somewhere when not in use.
Photo: KJE Tiny Homes
This unit of Brazilian Manor comes in a 3-color combination for the exterior as if to announce the living areas inside before you even step foot in them. To further equip it for (not so frequent) adventures, the builders added an exterior shower and bicycle storage outside at the request of the owners.
There's no word on pricing for this unit, which shouldn't come as a surprise since this is a custom build. That said, the same rule that applies to brick-and-mortar houses applies to tinies, so the bigger the livable area, the higher the price. A smaller home from the same builder, like the Olivewood, which is only 34 feet (10.3 meters) long and doesn't have a third bedroom, retails for over $125,000. Which is to say, this is a luxurious home not just in name and features but also pricing.
Elena has been writing for a living since 2006 and, as a journalist, she has put her double major in English and Spanish to good use. She covers automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, and she always knows the shows worth watching on Netflix and friends. Full profile
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