In April 2019, the YouTube channel Living Big in a Tiny House published an episode called “This Ultra Modern Tiny House Will Blow Your Mind”. Host Bryce Langston has toured hundreds of small homes on every continent, but this one did something none of the others has done before or since: it passed fifty million views and became the most-watched tiny house tour ever made. Behind the door: Matt Hobbs and Lisa Tranter, a couple who met online, fell in love and decided a mortgage-sized house was not the life they wanted.
The house that fifty million people toured
Matt renovates bathrooms and kitchens for a living, and it shows in every square centimetre. The couple designed the house themselves and assembled it in about three months, for roughly AU$90,000 — a fraction of a Sydney-region deposit. From the outside it is a severe, jet-black box on a trailer, softened by cedar trim; inside it opens into something that looks more like a boutique apartment than a caravan.
The details are what made the video travel. A kitchen with full-sized appliances tucked under the staircase, a marble waterfall benchtop and a butler sink. A real staircase — not a ladder — leading to a bedroom with skylights directly over the bed, so you fall asleep under stars. Mirrored his-and-hers wardrobes. And the touch everyone remembers: a bathroom, tiled like a high-end hotel, with a double shower — two showerheads, side by side, in a home smaller than many living rooms. Even the couple’s cats got their own architecture, with a built-in cat run that lets them come and go without a litter box in the house.
One quirk is easy to miss: the build is taller than a typical tiny house on wheels, tall enough that moving it needs special permits. The wheels were a planning decision, not a travel plan — this house was always meant to stand still and be lived in.
Where Matt and Lisa’s tiny house actually is
The house stands in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, the sandstone-and-eucalyptus plateau that rises about ninety minutes west of Sydney — Matt and Lisa both grew up on its slopes, in the towns strung along the highway between Blaxland and Katoomba. It is a fitting home region for a famous small house: land is steep, blocks are wooded, and the fire-prone, misty escarpment country has a long tradition of modest cabins rather than mansions. The exact address has never been made public — it is, after all, their private home — so the map below shows the region, not the driveway.
The revisit: solar, an electric car and a proper outdoor room
In December 2022, Bryce Langston went back — and the follow-up episode is quietly the more interesting film. The house that looked like an architectural render in 2019 now looks convincingly lived-in. The couple had rebuilt their outdoor area into a genuine second living room, with decking and shade sails that roughly double the usable space — the classic tiny house move: the house is the bedroom and kitchen, the landscape is the lounge. On the roof and beside the trailer, a serious solar system now covers the household and charges an electric car. A tiny house running its owners’ transport on sunlight is a better argument for the movement than any floor plan.
From one build to a business
The video’s success changed the couple’s working life too. Matt and Lisa founded Tailored Tiny Co, a small company that designs and builds custom tiny homes — the name is the philosophy: start from what a client actually does all day, then tailor a small space around exactly that, rather than shrinking a standard house until it fits on a trailer. It is the same thinking that produced the double shower: don’t copy convention, build what you’ll genuinely use.
Sleep in their corner of Australia
You cannot book Matt and Lisa’s house — it is their home, not a rental. But their home region is on our atlas, with verified small stays among the eucalypts of the same plateau. This is the live picture right now:
Top-rated stays here
Australia generally is one of the strongest tiny house countries we track — the Sunshine Coast Hinterland runs one of the world’s great unplugged-cabin scenes, and Kangaroo Valley south of Sydney plays the same game in rainforest green. Compare the regions live:
| Destination | Verified tiny stays | Typical price | Guest rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Mountains, Australia | 3 | €218 | 9.5 |
| Kangaroo Valley, Australia | 6 | €223 | 8.7 |
| Sunshine Coast Hinterland, Australia | 11 | €195 | 9.4 |
Live from our database — these numbers recalculate on every page view.
Or start from the whole Australia map and work outwards from Sydney.