THEY call it their tiny house mansion.

    Chloe Barcelou and Brandon Batchelder have spent the last five years in New England staying at various apartments, hotels and the houses of family and friends — but now they have a home that can follow wherever they need to go.

    The creative couple built their new tiny home, which is designed to collapse so it can be towed, almost entirely out of the movie sets where they’ve worked.

    It was Chloe who came up with the idea for the couple to build a house on wheels, Brando said.

    The couple had just gotten a huge financial break thanks to jobs on an independent film, where Chloe worked as a stylist and Brandon, a carpenter, helped build the set.

    Brandon said the idea made “perfect sense” for the couple who had been struggling to transition from day-jobs to creative careers.

    “We could expand our job search to anywhere in North America,” he said. “And we would never leave home again.”

    Brandon spent two months designing the home and it took nine months to build, most of which was done during the brutal Boston winter.

    The house was built almost entirely out of recycled and salvaged materials found from movie sets, yard sales, or just off the side of the road. It only set the couple back US$10,000.

    The tiny house will also feature a retractable deck, which has not yet been built, that will pull out from under the front door and unfold, and an accompanying tent as well as a hutch for their rabbit Cosmos.

    Solar panels and a battery back-up will provide electricity and there will be hot water, a composting toilet and heat.

    Brandon said gutters and rainwater collection barrels will be installed to gravity feed the house’s water supply.

    The couple initially wanted to design the home in a Tudor style, but decided it would look “silly bobbing down the road.”

    That’s when Brandon found inspiration in the design of a steamer trunk.

    “There was something really elegant and appealing about the silhouette,” he said.

    Additional influence came from the look of railroad cars, stage coaches, gypsy caravans and old ships.

    The house, currently parked in a friend’s backyard in the Hamptons, will be attached to a five-ton military truck that the couple will have match the color scheme of their new abode.

    Brandon said getting the opportunity to completely design the home, from its very foundation to the most minute detail, was like “a kid building a fort.”

    “There’s sort of a primal satisfaction in building your own home,” he said. “Your imagination is the limit. You can design functions that only you need or understand.”(SD-Agencies)