Tiny house movement becomes a trend nowadays. Many people build their houses in small size and sometimes minimalist with less furniture. There are no many rooms and sometimes one room can be functioned as several rooms at once.
However, it is not an obstacle to have a nice little porch as a place to enjoy a relaxing afternoon with a cup of coffee. Here are some ideas of porch design to complete your tiny house.
1. Tiny Porch
Tiny house will be perfect with a tiny porch. Well, actually porch has no significant use for a tiny house, so a tiny porch in front or back of the house with a comfy chair or two will be more than enough.
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2. Drawbridge
If you want to have a mobile tiny house, you can make a drawbridge as your porch. When you are moving, the drawbridge is used as a cover that will make your house door safely closed. Ten, when it is put down, it can be functioned as a porch. You can add two stools with a coffee table so you can enjoy beautiful night.
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3. Mini Garden Porch
Make your mini porch into a mini garden is not a bad idea. You can put some pots of flowers or plants in your porch, or you can also transform your porch into a mini green house. Just put a glass cover and your house will look greener. You can put two chairs and a coffee table in your mini green house and enjoy the green view.
4. Land Porch
No need to make an extra space with wood or floor in front of your house. You can take a benefit from a tiny lawn in front of your house by just put on chair or park bench and you can have a land-porch. This idea of porch is also perfect for kids because there is no stairs and kids can play freely and safely on the grass.
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5. Roof Top Porch
Instead of having a common porch in first floor, in the back or front of your house, you can have a porch in your roof top. You can add stairs outside your house so your guests can directly go to the roof top. By doing this, you can have bigger porch if you have more than two guests at once.
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6. Hanging Porch
Other incredible idea for porch of tiny house is hanging porch. If you build your tiny house in an uneven land, you can make a hanging porch. You can build the porch around your house and hang a bench on the wall.
7. Porch in the Widest Side of the House
Want to have a roomy porch? You can make it on the widest side of your house, so you can have a wide porch. Build a fence around the porch for safety and also to hang some plants is also a great idea to do. You can put a comfy sofa, chair or even hammock on the porch so you can hang out with other family members or friends.
8. Merged-Function Porch
To save place inside your tiny house and to give more function to the porch itself, you can merge the function of the living room and the porch. So you can welcome your guests in the porch and keep the tiny house as the private space only for your families or close friends.
9. Small Porch Means More Creative in Tight Budget
This is the exact benefit of a small porch; you can save some money in decorating the porch. So, instead of hanging the same decoration or having the same furniture in your porch all along the year, you can be more creative even in tight budget with your small porch.
You can change the decoration, match with the seasons or with the holiday. The best thing is that you will never be overwhelmed with the budget since you only need to decorate a small porch.
10. Put Some Pots of Plants
If you cannot transform your porch into a garden, then you can just put some pots of plants in it. Not only become a nice decoration, the porch will be naturally seen as the transition from the outside to the inside of the house. Even, you can hang some plants on your door.
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11. Colorful Porch Design Ideas
Decorating your Porch as interesting as possible will never go wrong. Even, your porch can become a nice background of your photo, so you can post it on Instagram. So, make your porch instagramable, then you can be proud in sharing the picture of it.
12. Comfy Corner
Who said that you cannot put a sofa and chairs in your tiny porch? You can make a comfy corner in your small porch, as long as you know the way. Put a sofa in a corner and place chairs plus coffee table in other corner. This way, you can have more place for more guests.
13. Use Your Door as Decoration
If you don’t want to hang so many decorations on your porch, just use your door as the decoration. You can paint the door with a pop color, which is different from your walls. Or you can have an experiment with paintings on the door so your mini porch can be mini art gallery.
14. Open-Spaced Living Room with Back Porch
If you have a back porch, you can use it as an open-spaced living room. You can connect the inside of the house with a big glass door to your porch. You can add some chairs and even fire pit on your porch if you like to have barbecue party.
15. Simple is Never Fail
Put some simple decorations or just leave simply empty will never fail. Just choose a matching color with your overall house color and it will make your porch looks classy.
16. Build a Different Shape
If the common shape of a porch is square, you can try to build it with different shape. This way will add the uniqueness into your house and of course your house will be different from other house.
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