A Los Angeles-based tiny house startup named Vika Living has unveiled a compact, semi-permanent housing unit that it says can be set up in an hour for just under $40,000.
Called the Vika One, the fully prefabricated dwellings provide 144 square feet of living space, with a shared sleeping, living, dining, kitchen area, and separate bathroom. Its ceilings stand 8.5 feet tall, paired with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall and a 42-square-foot outdoor terrace.
The tiny house is also delivered complete with furnishings and fixtures, including a bed, table, chairs, toilet, kitchen, storage units, and mechanical systems for HVAC, water, power, and waste. There is also an off-grid model, which includes rooftop solar panels and batteries, fresh water pumping and filtration, and off-grid waste systems.
The units are fully assembled in Vika Living’s Los Angeles factory and then delivered and installed on site. No foundations or heavy equipment are needed to set them up.
The Vika One was designed to meet park-model RV standards. Through their flexible design, the startup aims to take advantage of the growing demand for destination rentals and glamping in locations around major urban centers and national parks. These housing units were also made to serve humanitarian purposes, such as providing transitional housing for the homeless and quick-to-assemble housing in response to disaster events.
The Vika One is available for pre-order in the United States, with delivery in early 2023, the company says. The base unit package comes at $38,000, and the off-grid model is an added $8,000. The cost for delivery and installation ranges between $1,500 and $3,500. Vika Living aims to deliver internationally to select countries by the end of next year.
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Until one of these is actually produced and legally installed (with permits) this is press release for vaporware.
Trailers already exists. This is just another glorified hipster trailer dream.
A trailer without wheels, which means that it has neither the mobility of an actual chassis based tiny home, nor the legal status of a permitted small dwelling. In its home state of California it can't be used as a motor home, ADU, short-term or short-term rental in most jurisdictions. Effectively it is a tent with Ikea cabinets.
I like your Ikea furnished luxury tent description. I will use it moving forward at every opportunity.
if there were subdivisions with like 20x20 lots, green spaces, etc…this would be something…but no one with the taste for this kind of thing has the grit to live out in the desert.
Regarding this graph "The units are fully assembled in Vika Living’s Los Angeles factory and then delivered and installed on site. No foundations or heavy equipment are needed to set them up" vs the title. Is it really "assembled" in an hour? Or maybe rather installed onsite in an hour? I imagine takes more than an hour to "build" it in the factory?
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