Simplify Further’s Shanti tiny house starts at $30,000, with minimalist design

A $30,000 tiny house is the kind of sticker that turns heads, and Simplify Further Tiny Homes is making that price point the point. The Shanti is the Lake Butler, Florida builder’s simplest model, a 20-foot tiny house on wheels with 133 square feet of usable interior space, built for two and certified as an RV by NOAH.

The proportions are modest even by North American tiny-house standards. Simplify Further says the Shanti is 20 feet long, 8 feet 5 inches wide and 13 feet 6 inches high, riding on a bumper-pull chassis with 5,000-pound double axles. Its exterior uses engineered wood with board-and-batten detailing and pine tongue-and-groove accents, while the interior is finished with drywall and vinyl flooring.

Inside, the layout is stripped back but complete. Most of the floor plan goes to the kitchen, which includes a sink, induction cooktop, small fridge-freezer, butcher-block counters and cabinetry. The main living and sleeping area uses a double bed that can work as a daybed, with a sofa-bed option also possible. The only separate room is the bathroom, which has a walk-in shower, flushing toilet and vanity sink.

There is also a small loft, but it is storage only. Without egress windows, it cannot legally serve as a bedroom, which helps explain why the Shanti is built around ground-floor sleeping instead of the loft-first layouts that dominate much of the category. The result is a home that gives up extra rooms and premium add-ons in exchange for a lower entry price and a simpler footprint.

That tradeoff matters because the Shanti lands at the bottom of a market where affordability is already the central issue. HomeAdvisor puts the average cost to build a tiny house at about $45,000, with a typical range of $30,000 to $60,000, and TinyHousePlans says completed tiny houses in the United States generally fall in the same band. The Shanti starts at the low end of that range while still offering a full kitchen, a private bath and towable mobility.

Simplify Further says the model is aimed at buyers who want affordable housing, a guest house or a short-term rental investment. That pitch fits the company’s own background as well. Dwell identified the owners as Krsna Jivani Balynas and Govinda Carol and said they were running 12 tiny home Airbnbs in Alachua, Florida. Krsna said one Shanti unit booked out for a month within two weeks, a sign that a cheaper, more basic tiny home still has real market pull.