This Tiny House Turns Its Lounge Into a Staircase With Built-In Storage

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This tiny house offers a staircase lounge, hidden storage, loft workspace, and optional netting. See what comes standard and which features cost extra.

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Product snapshot

Listed price
From AUD $101,900; configuration and extras vary
Where to find it
Tiny Tect
Category
Home & Kitchen

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Most living rooms discourage climbing on the furniture. This tiny house has apparently decided that the furniture is the staircase, and everyone needs to calm down. The Wildscape from Tiny Tect can be fitted with a tiered timber lounge that turns sitting, storing things, and getting upstairs into one surprisingly handsome domestic obstacle course.

Wildscape tiny house tiered timber lounge and lower sleeping nook

It is an 8.4-meter tiny house on wheels, built by the Australian company Tiny Tect Tiny Houses. The model combines a ground-floor sleeping area with a loft bedroom, a kitchen, an ensuite bathroom, and space for a study. The photographed configuration goes further, adding the sort of built-in furniture that makes a regular couch look embarrassingly underemployed.

That distinction matters: Wildscape is available as a shell or a turnkey build, with a long menu of extras. The sculptural lounge, storage platforms, dining cabinetry, timber study bench, and netting are options. Think of the photos as a particularly well-dressed example of what the house can become, rather than a promise that every detail arrives in the starting package.

A tiny house with a staircase lounge

The raised timber seating is the star. In place of a conventional sofa with four legs and a modest job description, the custom arrangement creates broad levels that can serve as seats and steps. Cushions soften the upper perch, while the timber faces give the space a tidy, almost architectural look. Your couch has officially been promoted to infrastructure.

Storage is part of the appeal, too. Tiny Tect offers a custom raised floor incorporating storage and stairs, as well as custom lounge seating incorporating stairs. In a house this compact, putting useful space inside the furniture makes more sense than adding another freestanding cabinet and then negotiating with it every time you walk past.

The lower sleeping nook pictured beside the seating gives the room another layer of usefulness. The maker says the ground-level sleeping area suits a double mattress. It is a compact nook, not a sprawling bedroom, but it offers an alternative to putting every sleeper upstairs. Anyone who has ever climbed a ladder while half asleep can appreciate the concept.

Wildscape tiny house exterior with tall windows and metal cladding

Outside, Wildscape has a tall, narrow profile with metal cladding and substantial windows. The official headline dimensions are 8.4 meters long, 2.4 meters wide, and 4.25 meters high. The window placement helps the timber-heavy interior feel connected to the outdoors, which is useful when your entire home occupies less length than some people’s collection of parked vehicles.

The kitchen still expects you to cook

Small-house kitchens sometimes appear to have been designed by someone whose most ambitious meal is a grape. Wildscape’s turnkey specification includes a 600-millimeter electric oven, a four-burner cooktop, a rangehood, under-bench cabinets, a benchtop, and a sink. There is enough actual cooking equipment here to make dinner feel like a normal activity.

Wildscape tiny house kitchen with oven and cooktop

The details are more useful than a vague promise of a fully equipped kitchen. A standard-height fridge space is allowed for, and plumbing is provided for a dishwasher and washing machine or washer-dryer combination. The appliances themselves appear on the optional-extras list. An empty appliance space and an installed appliance are two very different things when the groceries arrive.

The photographed dining nook gives the kitchen its own destination for meals. Tiny Tect lists dining-nook cabinetry as an upgrade, so buyers can discuss whether that arrangement suits their build. It is an appealing use of the corner: a place to eat, read, or stare into a mug while postponing the beginning of the day.

  • Choose a shell if you want to complete the fit-out to your own needs.
  • Choose turnkey for the listed kitchen, bathroom, wiring, plumbing, and hot-water inclusions.
  • Add built-in lounge seating and stairs if the terraced living room is the feature you love.
  • Specify appliances separately, including the fridge, dishwasher, or laundry equipment you want installed.
  • Discuss the dining nook, study bench, netting, and extra loft space as individual upgrades.
Wildscape tiny house fitted dining nook

What the Wildscape specification actually includes

The useful question is not simply whether a tiny house has a kitchen or a loft. It is what comes with the chosen build and what needs a separate conversation. Wildscape’s specification makes those distinctions fairly clear, which is welcome when the wish list includes both sensible plumbing and a place to lounge above the kitchen.

DetailMaker’s listed specification
Headline size8.4 m long × 2.4 m wide × 4.25 m high
Sleeping layoutGround-floor bedroom and loft bedroom
Mattress allowancesDouble downstairs; king or queen in the loft
Turnkey cooking equipment600 mm electric oven, four-burner cooktop, and rangehood
Turnkey bathroomToilet, shower, vanity, mirror with shelf, and extraction fan
Custom interior optionsStorage stairs, lounge stairs, dining cabinetry, study bench, and netting

The stated sleeping capacity is up to four adults and two children, depending on how the spaces are used and configured. That is a capacity claim, not a guarantee that six people will agree about bedtime. The practical layout deserves a close look against your household’s routines, especially if some occupants treat the living room as their permanent headquarters.

A loft with room for more than a mattress

The loft-level workspace is a particularly nice touch. The photographed example places a small work surface and stool near the bedroom area, and a timber study bench is among the available upgrades. You get a distinct spot for a laptop or notebook without requiring a separate room that spends most of its life holding unopened mail.

Wildscape loft workspace beside the bedroom

This is still compact loft living. Anyone imagining a full executive office should adjust that mental picture before ordering an enormous desk chair. The appeal is having a dedicated surface and a little separation from the main room. Your commute becomes comically short, although the coffee remains downstairs and will continue making demands.

Optional netting adds another possible use for the upper space. It is one of Wildscape’s most playful ideas: a suspended lounging area rather than another solid surface. Buyers interested in that feature should discuss its exact layout and intended use with Tiny Tect. The net is an optional part of a custom build, not an automatic inclusion.

Wildscape loft bedroom with timber finishes

The bedroom arrangements also help explain why configurations matter. The loft can suit a king or queen mattress, while the ground-level space suits a double. Those are useful planning details, but the surrounding storage, access, and furniture choices affect how the home feels day to day. A mattress fitting somewhere is only the beginning of a bedroom doing its job.

A proper bathroom and a configurable finish

The turnkey bathroom includes a toilet, shower, vanity unit and basin, black mixer fittings, a mirror with a shelf, and an extraction fan. The photographed bathroom shows a glass shower enclosure and a compact vanity. It is a recognizable bathroom, thankfully, rather than a mysterious folding compartment with a motivational brochure.

Wildscape ensuite bathroom with glass shower enclosure

Other choices extend beyond the furniture. Tiny Tect lists plywood lining, upgraded metal cladding, air-conditioning, a skylight and blind, and custom window coverings among the available options. Solar equipment, a battery system, and water storage are also listed separately. A buyer wanting those systems should request a configuration-specific quote instead of assuming the basic house includes them.

Wildscape’s strongest quality is how many jobs its interior can do without looking like a pile of collapsible camping equipment. The tradeoff is that the most eye-catching arrangement requires selecting the right extras. That makes a detailed discussion with the builder part of the purchase, especially if the terraced lounge is what sent you down this tiny-house rabbit hole.

The key details before you downsize

  • Wildscape is an Australian tiny house on wheels from Tiny Tect.
  • The maker lists an 8.4-meter length and both shell and turnkey build choices.
  • The layout includes ground-floor and loft sleeping areas, a kitchen, ensuite, and study space.
  • The photographed staircase lounge and storage platforms are configurable upgrades.
  • Dining-nook cabinetry, a study bench, and netting are optional extras.
  • Fridge, dishwasher, laundry appliances, and off-grid equipment require checking against your selected package.

Tiny Tect currently advertises Wildscape from AUD $101,900, with prices described as indicative and inclusive of GST. The final amount depends on the build type and selected extras, so the pictured interior should not be treated as a fixed-price package. Contact the maker for the exact specification, current quote, delivery details, and timing. Your future staircase sofa deserves a proper itemized introduction.

Product details and original inline photos: Tiny Tect’s Wildscape tiny house.

ProsCons and considerations
Custom lounge can combine seating, stairs, and storageThe distinctive built-ins are optional upgrades
Ground-floor and loft sleeping spacesThe downstairs nook and loft need careful space planning
Turnkey kitchen includes an oven and four-burner cooktopFridge, dishwasher, and laundry appliances are separate choices
Optional workspace and netted lounging areaExact layout and intended use need discussing with the maker
Shell and turnkey builds offer flexibilityFinal price and delivery require a specific quote
Tiered timber steps and a charcoal cushioned lounge beside a lower sleeping nook and tall black-framed windows in the Wildscape tiny house.
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James Harrison is a 41-year-old writer and product scout from the Minneapolis area with a serious soft spot for gadgets, quirky inventions, and gifts that make people say, “Wait—where did you find that?” At OddityMall, he explores the…