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IKEA has collaborated with tiny homes designer and maker Escape to manufacture an IKEA tiny house!

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The IKEA Tiny Home is in Rice Lake, WI.

Having less space while being surrounded by breathtaking scenery may well be an acceptable trade-off. Tiny, but the clever design proves that most of us need a lot less space than we think that we do.

'It was a natural pairing,” says Escape Homes founder, Dan Dobrowolski. 'We feature many Ikea products in our various tiny home designs around the country, as they mirror the renewable, reusable and recycled materials we incorporate into the actual structures.' 'Our entire mission with ESCAPE Homes is to provide consumers with ways to simplify their lives, reduce their carbon footprint and live in a beautiful home,' says Dobrowolski. 'The IKEA Tiny Home Project illustrates that is is possible to live sustainably and affordably with style.'

The home's exterior features Shou Sugi Ban, which is the Japanese technique of charred siding, and is built on Escape's custom trailer that easily hooks up to a vehicle and can be transported anywhere. Inside, the home is wrapped in ESCAPE’s signature sustainably grown pine and features Low-E, thermopane windows and energy-efficient lighting. IKEA's design team selected a metal roof, solar paneling and an on demand RV water heater to provide the home with off-grid capabilities.

Image: Courtesy of Andrea Heap. Fern is a 1979 Fleetwood Wilderness Camper

"I always refer to my camper as Fern, and everyone in my family refers to my camper as Fern," Andrea Heap told Insider. "It's become like a person." Andrea Heap bought the camper for $3,000 and spent another $2,000 turning it into a tiny home.

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