ESCAPE Homes has partnered with retail giant, IKEA, to design and build a sustainable 187 square-foot tiny home for The IKEA Tiny Home Project.
ESCAPE was selected to design a custom ESCAPE Vista Boho XL – – reflecting both company’s commitments to sustainability, affordability, and innovation.“It was a natural pairing,” says ESCAPE Homes founder, Dan Dobrowolski. “We feature many IKEA® products in our various tiny home designs around the country, as they mirror the renewable, reusable and recycled materials we incorporate into the actual structures.”
The IKEA Tiny Home Project exterior features Shou Sugi Ban (the Japanese technique of charred siding) and is built on ESCAPE’s custom trailer that easily hooks up to a vehicle and can be transported anywhere.
Inside, the home is wrapped in ESCAPE’s signature sustainably grown pine and features Low-E, thermopane windows, and energy-efficient lighting.
IKEA’s design team selected a metal roof, solar paneling, and an on-demand RV water heater to provide the home with off-grid capabilities.
“Our entire mission with ESCAPE Homes is to provide consumers with ways to simplify their lives, reduce their carbon footprint and live in a beautiful home,” says Dobrowolski. “The IKEA Tiny Home Project illustrates that it is possible to live sustainably and affordably with style.”
About ESCAPE Homes
ESCAPE Homes is acclaimed, both nationally and internationally, for the design of innovative portable tiny homes that blend the best characteristics of a tiny home and RV and inspired by the Prairie-style resort cottages at Canoe Bay in northwest Wisconsin.
Canoe Bay owner, Dan Dobrowolski, enlisted the expertise of Frank Lloyd Wright, protege, John Rattenbury, and Kelly Davis (AIA) award-winning architect emeritus from SALA Architects in Minneapolis, to design some of the resort cottages. ESCAPE Homes is his realization to bring these architectural gems to the public in a smaller, portable way.
