Two Lofts Connected by a "Bridge" Fit Inside These Tiny Homes

Shaye’s Tiny Homes make units tall enough to accommodate a head-height walkway, a copyrighted element they license out.

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In 2013, Shaye Boddington was expecting a daughter. Dreaming of an out-of-the-way place to put down roots and raise her child, Boddington and her then-partner bought property and built Lucy: the house that would inspire her to start a tiny home company with her mother, Sheila.

The ten years to follow would see the mother-daughter team design more than nine different models, some of which have elevated hallways connecting loft spaces at either end. This idea and other innovations, says Boddington, have earned Shaye’s Tiny Homes upwards of 450,000 followers on TikTok, adding, "Mums are allowed to blow their trumpet a bit!"

Here, she tells us about the company’s model of licensing out designs to builders across the world and shares a modular design recently added to the company’s lineup.

Shaye Boddington, cofounder of Shaye’s Tiny Homes, built a roughly 255-square-foot design that the company now sells as the Hazel model. Photo by Soul Sisters Photography

What qualities make your tiny homes stand apart from the rest?

The head-height walkways linking two lofts with a "bridge." No other designs had that feature prior to our initial Hazel design. Prior to our walkways, lofts were crawl spaces only. This is copyrighted, and companies around the world have asked for permission to build them as licensed builders.

The Hazel was the company’s first model to feature a hallmark catwalk that connects lofted spaces at either end of the unit. The flooring is made predominantly from hardwood reclaimed from trees that had fallen into nearby rivers. Photo by Soul Sisters Photography

What’s the most exciting project you’ve realized to date?

I think the first one we built, a Hazel model, was the most exciting because we realized we had hit on something special. It was bought by a young couple so they could raise money to buy their own property—it got them out of the rent trap. We then went on to adapt Hazel’s features to many more walkway models.

One of Shaye’s Tiny Homes’s larger designs, Lisa, was launched last year at a starting price of around $167,000 USD. Photo by Soul Sisters Photography

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