Craft House's 24-Foot Erica Tiny House Features a Rooftop Terrace for Extra Living Space

Craft House, the builder operating across Poland, Austria, and Ireland, answered one of tiny-house living's most persistent frustrations with a straightforward move: go up. The company's Erica model, a towable tiny house measuring 7.2 meters (almost 24 feet) in length, puts a rooftop terrace above its 12-square-meter (129-square-foot) ground floor, creating outdoor room for seating and a small dining table where there would otherwise be nothing but sky.

The Erica rides on a double-axle trailer and is shown semi-permanently installed with an optional deck attachment that, as New Atlas noted in a design overview by Adam Williams, "obviously doesn't travel with the tiny house." The rooftop terrace is reached by an exterior spiral staircase, which the New Atlas writeup presumes would need to be removed for travel, though Craft House has not confirmed that as an official operational requirement. The exterior is clad in engineered wood and aluminum, giving it a clean, contemporary profile that fits comfortably in the European markets Craft House serves.

Inside, the 12-square-meter ground floor is finished in Scandinavian spruce and decorated in a modern palette of black and white cabinetry. The living room opens fully to the outdoors through sliding glass doors, reinforcing the connection between the compact interior and the expanded outdoor space above and beside it. That indoor-outdoor flow does a lot of heavy lifting on a floor plan this tight.

The single bedroom sits in a typical tiny-house loft with a low ceiling, accessed by a storage-integrated staircase that doubles as the ground floor's primary built-in storage. On the opposite side of the home from the living room, the bathroom is, by Craft House's own measure, "quite compact, even for a tiny house," yet it fits a flushing toilet, a vanity sink, a glass-enclosed shower, and a small amount of storage into the space.

Multiple build options are available, including the addition of solar power, though Craft House has not published panel specifications, battery capacity, or pricing for the Erica. What the design makes clear is the central argument: on a footprint barely larger than a parking space, adding a terrace overhead is one of the more practical ways to make a tiny house feel genuinely livable rather than merely tolerable.