After meeting on Hinge, one Ontario couple gave up their possessions to move into a 360-square-foot tinyhome on Vancouver Island:
The home’s exterior is covered in countless 16-inch slats of black steel siding Elyse Wellhauser met on Hinge in December of 2020. At the time, Wellhauser was working in oncology research and lived with her cat, Neema, in a 1,500-square-foot Kitchener apartment. Trahan, an HR rep, owned a four-bedroom house in Kincardine, Ontario, which she’d previously shared with an ex.
Trahan got in touch with Heather and Kevin Fritz, the Alberta-based husband-and-wife design team behind Fritz Tiny Homes. The Fritzes’ own stint living in a converted city bus inspired them to launch their business, which specializes in luxury custom dwellings under 400 square feet—most of them on wheels.
Trahan came with a $200,000 budget and a list of must-haves: space to ride her Peloton bike, ceilings highone day. For inspiration,tury mansions and A-frame cabins, which she admits was entirely impractical. As the build progressed, Wellhauser began weighing in on Trahan’s design choices, and the home started to feel like theirs. Wellhauser decided to jump in. “We’re both 35,” she says, “and I thought Ashleigh was the one worth taking the chance on.
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