Designed by Bulgarian architect Hristina Hristova in 2015 as a versatile and inexpensive various to a standard vacation home, the Koleliba stays trustworthy to minimalism, each in type and configuration. Hristina wished a towable tiny vacation house for herself and her husband so they might keep away from the crowds and the five-star seaside resorts, and benefit from the seaside someplace calmer and nearer to nature. Being an Structure graduate, she took it upon herself to show their imaginative and prescient into actuality.
The result’s Koleliba, a 15-ft (4.5-meter) lengthy and eight.2-ft (2.5-meter) vast trip home whose identify is a mix of the Bulgarian phrases for hut and wheel, so principally a hut on wheels. It’s constructed on a trailer base, which implies it could possibly simply be transported behind the household car, and the couple spent simply €8,500 (roughly £6,240) constructing it eight years in the past.
Picture: Dean Tomov/ Koleliba
The design is so simple as it’s charming, with each inside and exterior partitions and options constituted of plywood and timber, giving the hut a inexperienced and pure really feel. Hristina says Bulgarian kiln-dried pine handled with oil somewhat than lacquer was used when constructing the hut. This oil permits the timber to breathe and retains the pure look, really feel, and enchanting odor of freshly reduce wooden within the tiny home eternally.
Provided that the home was primarily meant for use on the seaside throughout summers, the concept was to construct a construction that may permit them to spend as a lot time outside as doable. That’s the reason Koleliba boasts options you don’t usually discover in tiny homes, like a detachable outside bench and a cover.
A protracted timber plank might be hooked up to the entrance facade of the home to create the stated bench and permit the house owners to benefit from the seaside whereas remaining near their trip house. One other distinctive outside characteristic is the canvas tarpaulin that rolls out from behind a panel along with Koleliba to create a cover for outside eating. The home additionally has outside lighting, which makes having fun with the ocean air over drinks within the night an actual deal with.
Although it’s fairly compact in dimension, providing simply 97 sq. toes (9 sq. meters) of livable house, Koleliba nonetheless feels spacious inside as a result of intelligent use of house and a full-height nook glazing.
Picture: Dean Tomov/ Koleliba
The massive doorways and facet window that permit loads of pure gentle to flood the inside, together with the vaulted ceiling and inside top of seven.9-feet (2.4 meters) on the ridge of the roof, much like the peak of a typical room, create the phantasm of a much bigger house.
Becoming every thing obligatory with out working the danger of changing into too cluttered or claustrophobic in such a small house is all the time a problem, however the builder managed to make the inside of Koleliba as nice and purposeful as doable for a trip house.
When you have got such a compact house, it’s pointless to speak about compartmentalization. The inside is one single room that comprises a sofa that converts right into a double mattress and a built-in kitchen. There’s additionally a bathroom at one finish, separated by a plywood door for privateness.
The couch mattress is correct in entrance of the doorway and has two massive drawers beneath for storage. With the double doorways open, the house opens to the outside and creates an incredible place for entertaining friends.
Picture: Dean Tomov/ Koleliba
The kitchen is minuscule however supplies sufficient counter house for meals prep. There’s additionally a sink and a built-in oven for cooking heat meals on the wall separating the room from the toilet. Overhead cupboards, drawers, and below counter storage present loads of house for all of the kitchen necessities. The overhead cupboards prolong all the way in which above the couch, so there’s house for the proprietor’s belongings as effectively. Some hooks on the wall reverse the kitchen additionally turn out to be useful for hanging garments, baggage, and different gadgets.
Koleliba Mini is a one-off construct and is appropriate for short-term stays and holidays, nevertheless it is also used as a short lived housing resolution.
What began as a private mission on a vibrant summer season day became a full-fledged household enterprise as a result of now Koleliba is the identify of the couple’s tiny house-building firm, which focuses on making sustainable small-scale timber properties that encourage and join folks to nature by making use of conventional carpentry and a minimalist design.
