tiny house guide to vermont

QUICK FACTS:

Are Tiny Houses Legal In Vermont: YES*

Tiny House Costs In Vermont: $20,000 – $100,000

Tiny House Friendly Cities: Londonderry, Burlington, Montpelier

Tiny House Builders In Vermont

Roll’en Homes Townshend, VT

Rollen Homes

$30,000-$100,000

With eight different models of tiny homes for purchase and an option to customize your own tiny house on wheels, Roll’en Homes has many options to offer. The company has a small team of five workers that are dedicated to building you the tiny home of your dreams.

It started back in 2017, when Greg Durocher began his own carpentry business called Durocher Carpentry. After over a year with this business, Greg decided to get back to what he truly loves — building tiny homes. This passion was the beginning of Roll’en Homes.

Tiny House Crafters Londonderry, Vermont

Tiny House Crafters


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Founded nine years ago by the Anderson family, Tiny House Crafters has five tiny home designs that are used as a starting point. They tend to not copy these models exactly, but to instead create a custom design around their buyers wants.

Tiny House Crafters began as a passion project of three friends, a contractor, an environmentalist, and an architect who each possessed a love for building and design. You can contact them through the phone number or email on their website if interested in their designs.

Jamaica Cottage Shop Londonderry, Vermont

Jamaica Cottage Shop

$1,000-$36,000

Jamaica Cottage Shop was founded in 1995 based out of Jamaica, Vermont, and has since expanded production and relocated to Londonderry. The company’s shop is bustling with employees, builders, and carpenters who strive to bring your vision to life.

Packages range from building kits and plans to entire prefabricated tiny homes and cabins. You can also find buildings and building plans for other various infrastructure like livestock pens, storage shelters, and playhouses at Jamaica Cottage Shop.

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Tiny House Trailer Dealers In Vermont

Kingdom Equipment & Trailers Danville, Vermont

Kingdom Equipment and Trailers

$3,000-$12,000

Kingdom Equipment & Trailers in Danville has many different kinds of trailers for sale including cargo, dump, flatbed, equipment, and more, with new and used trailers of all sizes. You can contact the company by email or phone to browse the inventory, make an offer, or get a quote on a hauling product.

Kaufman Trailers Vermont Saint Johnsbury, Vermont

kaufmann trailers

$7,000-$19,000

Kaufman Trailers has been in the business of selling utility hauling equipment for over 30 years, serving almost all 50 states. There are a variety of designs available for purchase including gooseneck and flatbed trailers, which are the designs most functional for tiny homes. You can pick up your trailer at one of the distribution centers or you have it delivered anywhere in the continental U.S.

AJ’s Truck & Trailer Center Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

AJs Truck and Trailer Center

$4,000-$9,000

AJ’s Truck & Trailer Center offers a large selection of trailer variations and hauling products including hitches, plows, and salt spreaders. The company also carries and installs vehicle accessories like electrical connectors to brake controllers.

For tiny houses on wheels, AJ’s has single and tandem axel flatbed utility trailers as well as a car hauler series. While it’s located in Pennsylvania, AJ’s is currently delivering trailers and other products to several cities throughout Vermont.

  • Burlington, VT
  • Montpelier, VT
  • Greensboro, VT
  • Manchester, VT
  • Stowe, VT
  • Barre, VT
  • Killington, VT
  • Battleboro, VT
  • Waterbury, VT
  • Middlebury, VT
  • Rutland, VT
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Tiny Houses For Sale In Vermont

Tiny Houses For Sale In Vermont

Why live in Vermont? The Green Mountain State is a perfect place to live if you enjoy life in quaint cities and small towns.

The social culture in Vermont aligns pretty closely with the lifestyle tiny housers tend to pursue. The state is known for its gorgeous natural landscapes, 55 state parks, a foodie culture focused on organic and healthy food, environmentally conscious residents, warm and welcoming locals, and a relaxed way of life that pushes back against American hustle culture.

If this sounds like a dream, consider getting a tiny house in Vermont. Check out these tiny house listings to see if any of them speak to you.

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Tiny Houses For Rent In Vermont


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Vermont is a gorgeous state to visit. It’s a popular vacation spot in late May or early June, as well as mid-September–October due to its gorgeous seasons, breathtaking natural landscapes, small crowds, quaint little towns, events including the Vermont City Marathon, and local delicacies like maple syrup.

All of my friends who have visited Vermont in the fall say it’s lifechanging. Check out these tiny houses on Airbnb in Vermont to book your next family vacation.

Tiny Houses Communities In Vermont

Living in a tiny house community gives you access to shared resources and helps to keep your cost of living and financial burdens much lower. It also helps you meet new people in the tiny community and form genuine bonds.

If this sounds appealing to you, there are several communities in Vermont worth looking into. If you know of a tiny house community in Vermont we’ve forgotten, let us know in the comments below.

Headwaters Garden & Learning Center

Headwaters Garden & Learning Center is an intentional living community in Cabot, Vermont. The ecovillage was founded with the idea of providing community members with a nurturing environment and the public with educational, recreational, and healing programs to teach sustainable livelihoods.

The community consists of eight independent dwellings including tiny houses, single-family homes, a yurt, tee-pees, domes, a treehouse, tents, and additional lots to build on. Members share in the community workload by cultivating the land, helping with building projects, providing childcare, growing food, and much more.

Joining is a few-step process — after some time spent attending events at the community, visitors can submit an application that will be considered by the group. To build your own home at Headwaters, you would buy a home site and agree to pay monthly condo fees for shared facilities. Currently, the remaining home site is for sale for $50,000, whereas the average building lot in the area is over $60,000.

Headwaters also provides educational services to the public. Members offer wellness, arts, and lifestyle courses and weekend retreats for those who want to try new things like vegan eating, learning about the climate crisis, or taking up guitar lessons.

Ten Stones Community

Ten Stones is a multi-generational, sustainable co-housing community in Charlotte, Vermont. It was created by 17 humble families who wanted to live as a community. Ten Stones sits on 87.4 acres of woodland, meadow, and preserved agricultural land with 16 clustered, privately owned, half-acre home sites with small dwellings.

Residents live in a close-knit neighborhood that seeks a blend of privacy and community. There is no one dogma other than a desire to live communally, ecologically, and economically. Members tend to be deeply connected to the land and like to live pastorally in the heart of Champlain Valley. Decisions are made via a community consensus and all members are involved in that process.

The families of Ten Stones care for jointly owned land and infrastructure, share resources with one another, work to maintain and improve the community, celebrate important life events, and care for one another deeply.

Tiny Living Social Groups Vermont

Tiny House Fest Vermont

Tiny House Fest Vermont began in 2016 when three friends decided to launch an annual tiny house festival in downtown Brattleboro. At the time, one of the founders was in the process of designing and building a tiny house on wheels, another was renovating homes, and another was completing an energy retrofit. All were considering many questions about the most affordable and ecofriendly housing.

As they considered the economy, flexibility, and proximity of tiny houses, they decided to do something about this community need. And thus, Tiny House Fest Vermont was born!

The festival invites anyone in the city to comes out, eat good food, tour tiny houses on wheels, and join the conversation around why the tiny house movement matters.

Vermont Tiny Houses

The Vermont Tiny Houses Facebook page is open to all tiny house lovers in the state of Vermont. The page welcomes all skill levels to the group, where members share photos, tips, tricks, and advice for living the tiny house life in Vermont. The group also hosts the occasional tiny house building workshop for those who are new to the tiny life!

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Tiny House Laws & Building Codes Vermont

*Disclaimer: The information provided on this website should not be taken as an expert opinion, consultation, or advisement of any kind. Building codes, home building, zoning, local laws etc are complicated and ultimately your responsibility to execute legally and safely. You must do your own research, consult with and verify with all applicable authorities, local officials, regulatory bodies, code and zoning officials, and city/state/federal governments. See our full legal page for further information here: https://thetinylife.com/about-us/legal/

2 Comments
  1. building house in orwell but until its 6 months occupied their are no laws to it . I want to move it to Fairhaven Vermont so as to be close to my grandchildren and daughters and son in laws of who live in FH. so how are FH laws ? also both FH and Casleton have Mobile home parks but I dont want to live in park have eyes on piece of land .

  2. Hi

    Any tiny home community in Burlington or Monpelier where I can put my tiny home ?

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