This tiny house has dog-friendly stairs. Big woof for that.

The so-called North Carolina Loft tiny home made by Rich's Portable Cabins of North Powder, Ore., is one of those tiny homes with so many roomy features that photos are deceiving. The bathroom is large enough for a full shower, a sink, a toilet and a washer/dryer. The bedroom loft is large enough for a sitting area with room for two or three chairs. It also comes in two models, one of which has a standard sized door and a set of sliding glass doors.
If that wasn't enough, the builders boast online that the stairs in this trailer home rise at a gentle enough slope to accommodate the family dog. All those tiny home lofts with ladders too steep for Fido suddenly seem discriminatory.
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So, this is a 232 square foot, 29 feet long tiny home that thinks big. There is even 6-feet, 2-inches of space in the loft, allowing most people to stand comfortably while upstairs. Let's take a look.
Here's model No. 1 of the Carolina Loft tiny trailer home.
Here's the model with the front porch.
The sliding glass door on the right helps make this downstairs siting area appear larger. It helps to have a full-sized floor rug, which gives a different impression than a small throw-rug that's just large enough for the open floor space.
I have "a thing" about counting the number of knobs on a kitchen stove in a tiny house. This tells you a lot. This stove, if the knobs are correct, has four burners on top and a handy oven down below. That's pretty grand for a tiny house.
Here's the reverse view of the downstairs. You can see from here why the builders called the set of stairs dog-friendly. They rise slow enough for almost any pooch, young or old.
You can also see a sliver of the sliding glass doors on the left and a hint of the bathroom in the distance. The bedroom loft has a uniquely styled interior wall. And the kitchen shows another "think big" amenity: A double sink.
You can barely see a portion of the shower in the left half of the bathroom mirror and, if you look closely, the washer and dryer unit on the right half. However, this corner-fitted cabinet and sink are space-saving and stylish. The tongue-and-groove ceiling and walls are also very handsome in this photo.
Look closely enough at the washer and dryer in the mirror shot above and you can see the same yellow energy-guide card in both shots.
You can see a lot in this photo of the upstairs loft including the designer's ample use of windows, the great wall-to-wall carpet, and room for two chairs -- maybe even a third. You get a suggestion of the height of the ceiling, which is 6-feet, two-inches tall in the center.
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One parting shot of the downstairs room without the couch or the rug. The highlight of this photo is the slick-looking storage loft above the door. You can see the ceiling of the front porch through the window.