Tiny House Planning Course
A course to help you plan for a tiny house that’s designed around your life and your landscape.
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Module 1: Purpose + Constraints
Get clear on why you’re building a tiny house, who it’s for, and the personal, practical, and lifestyle constraints that shape every decision.
Get clear on why you’re building a tiny house, who it’s for, and the personal, practical, and lifestyle constraints that shape every decision.
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Module 2: Site + Land Logistics
Understand how land, climate, access, services and risk influence the planning process, and learn how to confidently assess potential sites.
Understand how land, climate, access, services and risk influence the planning process, and learn how to confidently assess potential sites.
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Module 3: Tiny House Regulations
Learn how tiny houses are viewed by local planning authorities, how use-cases affect rules, and how to assess regulatory pathways with confidence.
Learn how tiny houses are viewed by local planning authorities, how use-cases affect rules, and how to assess regulatory pathways with confidence.
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Module 4: Trailer, Size + Weight
Explore the physical rules that govern tiny houses on wheels — trailer choice, legal dimensions, and weight limits — and how they shape your design from day one.
Explore the physical rules that govern tiny houses on wheels — trailer choice, legal dimensions, and weight limits — and how they shape your design from day one.
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Module 5: Layout + Internal Planning
Learn how to plan a layout that functions day-to-day by understanding zoning, circulation, storage, and how spaces work together.
Learn how to plan a layout that functions day-to-day by understanding zoning, circulation, storage, and how spaces work together.
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Module 6: Utilities + Off-Grid Systems
Get across power, water, heating, cooling, ventilation, and waste systems, and how system choices affect comfort, cost, layout, and lifestyle.
Get across power, water, heating, cooling, ventilation, and waste systems, and how system choices affect comfort, cost, layout, and lifestyle.
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Module 7: Budgeting, Procurement + Timeline
Anchor your ideas into reality by learning how to manage costs, job sequencing, and a build timeline, so you stay organised and feel like a total boss.
Anchor your ideas into reality by learning how to manage costs, job sequencing, and a build timeline, so you stay organised and feel like a total boss.
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Module 8: Insurance + Next Steps
Learn how to protect the time and money you’re about to invest, understand insurance options, and clarify what your next steps look like before construction begins.
Learn how to protect the time and money you’re about to invest, understand insurance options, and clarify what your next steps look like before construction begins.
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A course focusing on
Planning With Purpose
Tiny houses may be small but they still offer plenty of room to design a home that supports the life you want to live. We spend a huge amount of time indoors, and space shapes how we feel day to day, how we interact with others and how often we do particular activities. When space is limited, every decision carries more weight — there’s nowhere to hide bad planning, but also nowhere to waste good ideas.
So how do you want your home to feel? What rituals matter enough to design around? Good design isn’t just about what works for you now. It’s about creating a space that can support you over time, through the seasons and as lift shifts. All of this comes down to good planning.
Planning is everything
Plan before you build
Building a tiny house means making many decisions — often about things you’ve never had to think about before. Because of the physicality of building, once many of these decisions are made, they can be difficult (and expensive) to undo. On top of that, most people are wearing multiple hats — organiser, planner, designer, builder — while also paying for the build, setting it up to live in and eventually becoming the resident… huge! Decision paralysis, overwhelm and burnout happen to the best of us — even the qualified ones.
So having clear systems in place makes this process far more manageable… and enjoyable! This course provides a series of spreadsheets and calculators to support that, while also giving you the language to understand the process and communicate clearly with the people you’ll need to work with along the way.
The whole picture
By working through the planning process properly, you’re not just learning how to plan — you’re building confidence. Confidence to make decisions, back yourself, speak up in spaces that haven’t always included you, and ask better questions without feeling like you should already know the answers.
This course is designed to replace uncertainty with understanding. So instead of second-guessing yourself or nodding along while someone else decides for you, you can go forwards knowing why you’re doing what you’re doing. Take up space! Stay determined! And join a growing community of women learning how to build themselves a house.
Building a tiny house isn’t just about designing a small structure. You’re planning for the site and surroundings, regulations, trailer choices, size and weight limits, layout and internal flow, utilities, storage, materials, budget, timeline and insurance — and that’s all before you’ve picked your tiles. It’s a lot of moving parts, and they’re all connected.
Taking the time to plan for all of this before your build starts, helps you avoid the classic spirals - redesigning mid-build, blowing budgets, or lying awake at night wondering if you’ve missed something important. This course helps you step back, see the whole picture, and turn daydreams into something real.
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Housekeeping Terms + Conditions – Tiny House Planning Course
By purchasing and accessing the Tiny House Planning Course, you agree to the following terms and conditions.
1. Educational Use Only
The Toolkit is provided for educational and planning purposes only. It does not constitute professional advice, including but not limited to building, legal, planning, financial or insurance advice. You are responsible for seeking advice from qualified professionals relevant to your specific situation.
2. No Guarantees or Approvals
Regulations, council policies, insurance requirements and construction standards vary by location and change over time. Use of this Toolkit does not guarantee council approval, insurance coverage, regulatory compliance or a successful build outcome.
3. Assumption of Risk
Planning and construction involves inherent risks. By using this Toolkit, you acknowledge that you are responsible for your own decisions, actions and outcomes. The creator accepts no liability for loss, damage, injury, cost or delay arising from use of the Toolkit.
4. Intellectual Property
All content within the Toolkit — including text, worksheets, calculators, templates and resources — is the intellectual property of the creator. You may use the materials for personal use only. You may not reproduce, distribute, share, resell or modify the content for commercial purposes without written permission.
5. Digital Access & Updates
This is a digital product. Access details will be provided after purchase. Content may be updated or refined over time, but ongoing access to updates is not guaranteed unless stated.
6. Refunds
Due to the digital nature of the Toolkit, refunds are not available once access has been granted, unless required by Australian Consumer Law.
7. Community Resources
Any shared documents or community resources are provided as peer-based knowledge sharing. Information contributed by others is not verified and should be independently confirmed.
8. Acceptance
By purchasing the Toolkit, you confirm that you have read, understood and agreed to these Terms & Conditions.