Jean talked to us for years before she was ready. When she was, she did the thing most people won't: she ordered her home before she had anywhere to put it, then bought her West Coast bush section while we built. One move, no mortgage, and a retirement she chose.

The price of the home is the number everyone asks about. The site costs around it are the ones that catch people out. Here's the full list, so nothing is a surprise.

Alan came home from California with his life savings and no way to buy a house. He rang us from the car, lost, and turned up at the yard without an appointment. Six months later he owns a home in the heart of Motueka. Here's how a careful man learned to trust a builder, and what we learned about looking after someone who's afraid.

Almost every tiny home builder in Australia frames in steel. We frame in timber. This is the reasoning, and where steel does have the edge.

Ira is a nurse who couldn't buy a house on her income, so she bought a tiny home on wheels instead. The build took five months. Finding the land took the same five months alongside it, and that's the part most people don't expect. Here's what we did for her, and what we'll do for you.