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philpom
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# Posted: 22 Mar 2026 04:58pm
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Or a tiny camper.
It was back in 2020 during the.... I don't know what to call it, but found myself with few options to go do. I decided to build our own tiny camper. The cabin is 8'x5' and total length is 12'. I purchased a harbor freight HD trailer kit for the chasis. A million nuts and bolts, was fun putting that together.
It's 100% custom 1 of a kind, we've put thousands of miles on it and camped in multiple states. It has been a super fun project. I can't say it's done because I have lots of ideas for additions I wanna make. The outside is covered in PMF or poor man's fiberglass. It's 7lb cotton duck canvas glued down with TB II and painted with an exterior latex paint. The outside will never check. There is a full queen bed inside, heating and air conditioning, storage etc. Powered with a 100 ah lithium battery with shunt and can be charged with shore, generator, or it has 200 watts of solar. I planned, designed, and built from scratch though I did buy RV doors, windows, hatches etc. It's fully wired for DC or AC and has an on board 750 watt inverter.
Anyways, enough but I'll share some pictures.
If anyone is interested in this topic, I have extensive photos of the build and a mountain of resources.
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philpom
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# Posted: 22 Mar 2026 05:05pm
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Few more pics. Besides the cabin this is by far the most complex project I ha e taken on, took 2 years of evenings out in the garage to get it builr.
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darz5150
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# Posted: 22 Mar 2026 05:31pm - Edited by: darz5150
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Nice build.Quoting: philpom I don't know what to call it
I had something similar. We called it a "Condominimum" lol
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paulz
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# Posted: 22 Mar 2026 07:21pm
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Yes very nice!
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gcrank1
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# Posted: 22 Mar 2026 07:26pm
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Nice job!
Although we built our #1 cabin in 1983-84 we also motorcycle toured and camped, backpacked, canoe camped and pickup truck with topper camped. I often thought about finding and rebuilding an old teardrop or even little Winnebago type but didn't find one. Eventually we ended up with a Ford conversion van that I pulled the seats and redid as a camper, it sure beat a tent! Then we had an alum bodied retired 'bread truck' with a diy camper interior, about 12' living space behind the front seats.
I concluded that it would be nice to have a tow behind so we could at least leave a campsite without totally breaking camp or change up tow vehicles so we got an old 'pop-up' (ughhh) then bought a new A-Liner (SWEET).
But our traveling days were closing out so it was return to cabineering. We have had this new property for 5yrs come August 1 and although it had a shack it was too far gone so we designed and had prebuilt a 12x28 milled log cabin, it was delivered 2 years ago come May 1. We were just there yesterday (it is less than an hour drive north from home) and have no need to travel and camp. A friend has a nice modern teardrop for sale, we talked about it and it is not for us any more.
I guess we BTDT, but I admire what your did there
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