The Tiny Home Project - By Designers Chloe Barcelou and Brandon Batchelder (I Fell In Love With This Tiny Home. I Want One!)

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The Tiny Home Project - By Designers Chloe Barcelou and Brandon Batchelder

The StudioVox Crew

‘The Tiny Home’ project started out as a solution to the financial quandary that production designers,Chloe Barcelou and Brandon Batchelder were struggling to solve - How do two multi-talented designers build their careers, expand their portfolios, find more time to create, and make enough money to keep a roof over their heads?

At the time, they were working on independent films in the Boston area and were hired to build the set for their first feature, ‘Aimy in a Cage’. “We built a massive set,” says Chloe. “And when the time came to tear it down, Brandon and I recycled nearly all the wood materials for our personal project: a tiny house on wheels.”

“We came up with the idea of living in a tiny house on wheels, after the frustration of finding creative work in the area became a little ‘too much’ and we found ourselves taking jobs we weren’t passionate about, just for the sake of making a paycheck,” says Chloe. “The idea was that if we had a home on wheels, we could go to the work, as opposed to waiting for it to come to us, not to mention our expenses would be cut in half, thus allowing us the opportunity of following our creative passions and live out our dreams.”

As the tiny home project evolved, so did their design aesthetic. They came up with a one-of-a-kind engineering method to make the tiny house expandable to nearly twice its size when parked, using a vintage ships’ wheel and an entirely custom system of pulleys and ropes.

“Using this sort of creative ingenuity we gained over 300 square feet of space, on an 18ft trailer,” says Chloe.  “Not only is our tiny house unique in its engineering and construction - it’s also been almost entirely built using recycled 2x4’s and plywood from our film sets; for a mere $10,000 and everything on the house is handmade, or custom tailored to meet our needs and aesthetic.”

During the build last year, HGTV got involved and filmed an episode for their show “Tiny House, Big Living”.  “After the episode aired, we got a lot of really fun publicity,” says Chloe. “Everyone from The Daily Mail to Good Morning America, to NPR wanted to hear more about our unique journey, and the feedback from the public made it clear to us that people were interested in hearing more about us and our unique tiny home lifestyle.”

“This was unquestionably the hardest thing either of us had ever done, but the freedom of creativity, the authority to include any idea, no matter how whimsical, and the knowledge that we would one day find ourselves sheltered by our own hands' creation is something we can only compare to the building of tree forts in childhood.”