Ten yearsof living small.
Together Chris Morrison and Eve Macfarlane are a dynamic duo. With Chris’s experience as an ex-joiner and furniture designer along with Eve’s artistic eye they sure know how to build beautiful spaces. Through their personal experience of building and living in their own tiny house, they know the important components to make a tiny home sing for you.
“It’s that ‘ahhh’ feeling when your shoulders relax and you can finally take a deep breath — that’s the experience of stepping into a Raglan Tiny Home.”
The rich scent of natural timber, the smooth craftsmanship you can touch, and the meticulous attention to detail in every corner. You’ll breathe in the fresh, clean air of a healthy home, free from toxic VOCs, and feel a connection to nature through large windows that welcome the outdoors inside.
10+
Years living tiny
Chris and Eve, in their own home
16
Square metres
The first one they built themselves
2015
Four Leaf founded
Chris’s furniture and joinery business
3×
Olympic Games
Eve, and a World Championship
We decided to go against the grain.
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“As a young couple locked out of the housing market, we decided to go against the grain and find an alternative. Designing and building ourselves a humble, 16 square metre tiny house sure did raise some eyebrows.”
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“But after living in our Raglan Tiny Home for over 8 years now, we think we’ve cracked it. We live a better way of life, not only for our health but for the health of the environment too. Living in our tiny home has brought our attention towards our impact on our planet, it’s as though our home has taught us how we should live.”
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“It’s simple and it’s unfussy. The saying “Less is more” really has become obvious to us. Our mental health has improved, we have de-cluttered and found a sense of freedom away from the materialistic society.”
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“Our eyes have been opened to what really is important in our lives; family, friends, connection, our planet, love, health, freedom and time. In the end, time is really all we have, why not make the most of it?”
Here’s to a future where we live in sync with our natural world, replacing take, take, take, with give, give, give.
Stay in one for a nightSixteen square metres, and the life that came out of it.
View our first Tiny Home from Living Big in a Tiny House — the 16 square metre house Chris and Eve designed and built for themselves.
Chris and Eve.
Chris
Builder, joiner, furniture maker
Chris grew up on a farm in Hikutaia on the Hauraki Plains. His passion for building started early — most trees had their own personalised tree hut. He saved up for a welder at 12 years old, and the hands-on entrepreneur mindset saw Chris establish Four Leaf, a furniture and joinery business in Raglan, in 2015. His furniture making skills and appreciation for the finer details is where Raglan Tiny Homes gets its gold standard reputation. He has a vast passion for the science behind the construction of a home and how it performs. When he’s not building tiny homes, Chris is surfing the Raglan breaks or getting busy outdoors.
Eve
World Champion and three-time Olympic rower, artist
Eve grew up on a farm in North Canterbury. She is a World Champion and three-time Olympic New Zealand rower. Chris and Eve love living the tiny home lifestyle and have been for over 10 years. Eve says it’s a fun lifestyle that brings her gratefulness with the ‘less is more’ concept. The closed-loop systems for the environment is also what she really enjoys about it. Nature and creativity is what Eve thrives on with surfing and art as her outlets. Eve is also co-author of How We Got Happy — stories of health, hope and happiness from 20 young Kiwis who beat depression.
Built by Licensed Building Practitioners.
Licensed Building Practitioners
You can have confidence in our homes, built by Licensed Building Practitioners. Interested about COC? Contact us to discover more.
We deliver New Zealand wide
Our homes are delivered to every corner of the country. From the top of the North to the southernmost tip of the South we ensure a seamless delivery experience for your Raglan Tiny Home.
We protect what we have
Space is becoming a limited resource in New Zealand. We believe in using it wisely. At Raglan Tiny Homes we are passionate about caring for Mother Earth, so we build with environmentally friendly, sustainable, reclaimed, local and natural products as much as we can.
Along with designing and building tiny homes, Chris has a passion for making furniture. He has an eye for detail and takes time carefully hand crafting each product.
We are here to make positive change in the world, for the environment and for your life.
Contact us to find out more or request a quote for your Raglan Tiny Home. We’d love to hear about your tiny home dream and also be a part of it.