Spectacular Rosalind Tiny House Boasts Two Standing-Height Bedrooms, Two Full Bathrooms

In theory, downsizing means choosing yourself over meaningless stuff, and thus living a happier life. Downsizing also brings about reduced monthly costs and a reduced carbon footprint, and comes with higher affordability than brick-and-mortar homes and no 30-year burden in the form of a mortgage.

All this sounds great on paper, but downsizing also means effectively reducing your entire life to a fraction of what it was before. That's why they say that downsizing is a lifestyle choice, because it entails a radical approach to the very concept of home, one that doesn't suit all.

It doesn't always have to be that drastic, though.

Tiny living has seen an incredible boost in popularity in recent years and this, in turn, has spurred an increase in the number of options available. In countries like North America and Canada, XL tinies, also known as park model tinies, have become a fixture, promising the best compromise between downsizing and retaining a high degree of comfort.

Rosalind is one such XL tiny, a phrase that might seem a paradox at first but which translates into the fanciest, biggest, and most surprising mobile home you're likely to see this week. This mobile home offers no less than two bedrooms, both with standing height, and two full bathrooms, in addition to all the other creature comforts of home.

Assuming you're not new to tiny houses, you know already that that's a bunch of unheard-of features in one. This is possible by placing Rosalind on a quad-axle trailer, which gives it a total length of 42 feet/12.8 meters (the trailer itself is 38 feet/11.5 meters, but two large bump-outs extend it even farther) and a width of 10 feet/3 meters.

This tiny is a fully custom unit based on the Entertainer Double Deluxe model from Indigo River Tiny Homes, a U.S.-based builder specializing in custom tinies. IRTH boasts of not making two tiny homes alike, and Rosalind shows the kind of creativity they show in the design process, as well as how they work with each owner to create the individual perfect home.

With Rosalind, this means a tiny that lives big huge. It has two lofts, each with a full bath underneath and each with an L-shaped dropped landing that allows for standing height. It has full wardrobes in each bedroom and queen-size beds, as well as extra storage under the bed and wherever there's room left to insert it.

Rosalind packs a massive kitchen with all the necessary appliances, from a dishwasher to a four-burner cooktop with a pot filler, a fridge with dual freeze drawers, and even a garbage disposer. The pantry is integrated into the stairs leading up to the main bedroom, while the other set of stairs hides even more storage options.

This not-so-tiny tiny has everything from outside storage sheds (one on each end), a window seat in one of the bedrooms and a standing desk with adjustable height in the other, drop-down TVs, and a proper laundry station to real tile in the bathrooms and even a Japanese soaking tub.

It's the perfect family home, with the only difference being that it's smaller than a house in North America. Unlike a standard home, Rosalind is also slightly more mobile, though not as much as its smaller counterparts. A park model means restrictions regarding where you park it, as well as having to move it only with special permits.

Rosalind tips the scales at about 24,000 lbs (10,886 kg), according to the builder, and offers a living footprint of 380 square feet (36 square meters), plus an additional 181 square feet (16.8 square meters) in the lofts. As the video tour below shows, this XXL tiny was customized with help from the owners, but it can still serve as inspiration for those considering the transition to a mobile home – or as a visual cleanser for everyone else.

Since IRTH makes all their units full or half-custom, they never disclose the price tag of the units they showcase on their public channel. However, they offer some pricing guidelines and a calculator that should give potential customers an idea of the kind of expense they're looking at. It's not negligible, to say the least.

Tiny houses, regardless of size and features, remain priced prohibitively, especially turnkey units. XXL units like the Rosalind are even more so, with the final tally occasionally going in the $200K region, which, admittedly, is a lot to pay for a home on wheels that might not even be legal for full-term residency on your area. As noted at the beginning of this presentation, downsizing is a lifestyle choice, and it might not prove suitable for all.