Residences

The same American chassis, the same systems, built to the same specification.

Mobile bars and coffee units

Built to the same discipline as the residences, on a shorter chassis of its own and fitted out to serve. Within European towing dimensions, delivered to your pitch anywhere in the EU.

One platform: 18 ft

Bars and coffee units are built on an 18 ft twin-axle chassis. It is the size where a full working unit stops being a compromise, and it stays an ordinary road trailer rather than a heavy-transport job.

Body length

5.5 m

Body width

2.55 m

Total height

about 3.4 m

Internal floor

about 5.10 × 2.20 m

Internal area

about 11 m²

Internal ceiling

2.10 m at the walls, 2.35 m at the ridge

Width and height are within road-legal limits, so the unit moves on public roads without an escort or a special movement permit. Layouts, both service-only and service with guest seating, are drawn to this footprint and adapted to your equipment.

It brings its own water. It expects power.

A pitch needs to be level ground with a socket or a generator on it, and nothing else. Water and waste travel with the unit, which is what makes a field, a courtyard or a car park bookable at the same rate as a venue with services already in it.

• A 150 litre fresh tank, pump, filtration and softening sized for espresso equipment. It travels empty and fills on site, so no standpipe is needed at the pitch.
• A 180 litre grey tank, deliberately larger than the fresh one, so it cannot overflow before the fresh runs out. Emptied at any standard point.
• Its own refrigeration, holding temperature while the unit is towed and while it stands.
• Shore power, 230 V 16 A single phase, with a distribution board, RCD protection and an external socket.
• Generator input as standard, so the unit works at a festival site with no mains at all.
• Everything the unit serves with travels with it; the ground supplies level and electricity, and nothing else.

Power is the one thing the standard unit does not carry. If you need it to work where there is neither mains nor a generator, that is the off-grid build: solar, a lithium bank and an inverter, sized to your equipment and priced separately. The specification page sets out what that costs you in weight.

A field in the snow with no standpipe, no drain and no building on it, with a generator behind the camera or a socket on the fence. That is the pitch the specification above is written for, and it is why a unit like this can be booked where a catering tent cannot. The images on these pages are renders: the outside is drawn to a customer's brief, the chassis and the equipment behind it are the specification.

You buy it. You run it. That is the whole arrangement.

The unit is sold outright to your company. No leasing, no revenue share, no franchise. You decide what it serves, where it goes, what it charges and who works in it, because it is yours.

Every unit is built to order. The prices on these pages are for the configurations we have specified; yours is designed around what it actually has to do, so the final figure moves with it in both directions. A shell finished to look right and pour at an event costs considerably less than a fully equipped coffee bar. A custom exterior, a particular machine, an interior matched to a venue you already run: all of it changes the number. Tell us what the unit has to do and we price that, not a catalogue item.

One shell, two briefs. Nothing structural differs between these two rooms: the chassis, the width, the aisle and the standing height are the same unit. What changes is everything a customer of yours will actually notice.

The same platform as a nail studio or a barbershop

This is the opposite of how the residences work, and the difference is deliberate. There we place the house on a farm and run the guests, because the owner is buying an income. Here you already have a business, a name and customers. You are buying equipment for it, not a service from us.

The unit, and the first season with it

A trailer is a trailer. Anyone with a welder and a chassis can build one, and the ones that fail do not fail because the steel was wrong. They fail on the year that follows: the licence that took four months, the event whose calendar had closed in January, the supplier found in week nine. So the unit is handed over with that year written down.

It comes with the unit at no separate charge, and it is a document rather than a service: we are not running your diary, taking a share or standing between you and your customer. It is not legal advice either: your own lawyer signs the licence off. It is the list of things you would otherwise spend a first season finding out one at a time.

What it earns, and when it is paid off

The rates below are not our projections. They are the published price lists of two working operators, a mobile pub in Ohio and a mobile coffee bar in Alberta, converted at $1 = €0.92. We do not model at that rate: every figure on the unit pages uses €1,450, our middle estimate for a European diary, which is below what these two charge.

See the whole working

Counted: what you charge, less staff, stock, fuel and the running of the unit. Not counted: VAT, insurance, the cost of borrowing, the vehicle that tows it, or what the unit is still worth when it is paid off. The first four lengthen the payback and the last one shortens it. Every figure is at €18 an hour for labour.

To your yard, not to a port

The unit is built in Istanbul and delivered to the address you give us anywhere in the EU: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain. Customs clearance and the import paperwork are handled as part of the delivery, and the price we quote is the price at your gate.

It arrives ready to work: on its own wheels, within towing dimensions, tested and cleaned down before it leaves the yard.

Leasing and fleet terms

Terms are agreed per order, in writing. Tell us the number of units and the country the company is registered in, and you get a quotation rather than a range.

Questions we are asked first

Mobile salons

A nail studio of four stations and a three-chair barbershop, on the same 18 ft platform as the bars. Both run off the grid as standard, which the bars do not, because a salon's load is light enough to carry.

We build it and sell it

We do not rent it, we do not take a share of what you earn, and we do not operate it for you.

Each unit is built to your specification: your layout within the platform, your finishes, your equipment. Prices move with the build, so the figures here are ranges rather than a fixed list.

The same 18 ft chassis

One platform for both configurations, and the same one the bars are built on.

Body length

5.5 m

Body width

2.55 m

Total height

about 3.4 m

Internal floor

5.10 × 2.20 m

Internal area

11 m²

Internal ceiling

2.10 m at the walls, 2.35 m at the ridge

Gross weight

under 3,500 kg

Under 3,500 kg the unit is an ordinary braked trailer: towed by a pickup or van on a BE or B96 licence, moved by you or by any local haulier, with no heavy-transport carrier and no special movement permit. Width and height are within road-legal limits.

Entry is on the short end wall. That is not a styling choice: a side door costs a metre of usable length and breaks the line of workstations, and without it the fourth station does not fit.

Four working stations in 11 m²

Three chairs and a backwash

Four chairs do not fit on this platform. A barber needs clear floor around the chair, and a backwash unit is not optional.

Off the grid as standard, and no generator

Both configurations run off-grid as standard and both accept shore power where it exists. This is where a salon differs from a bar: an espresso machine and a keg fridge draw continuously, so those units expect a socket. A salon's load is light and comes in pulses, so it can carry its own.

• Brushless dryers do the same work at half the draw, because the air speed does the drying rather than the heat: three of them peak at 3.0 to 3.6 kW instead of 6 to 7.
• A load manager stops all three running at full power at once, which brings the peak down again.
• Dryers run for minutes, not hours. Over a full shift, drying accounts for 2 to 3 kWh. What matters is the peak, and that is what the 10 kW of inverter headroom is for.
• The larger consumer is not the dryers but hot water. An electric instant heater would draw 5 to 7 kW for as long as the basin runs, so the water is heated with diesel instead: the same fuel as the tow vehicle, almost no electricity, and cabin heat in winter as well.

Small tanks, because the water goes round

A closed-loop recirculation system filters and returns the water, so the tanks are there for make-up and the first fill rather than for a full day's supply.

Against the conventional 400 and 500 litre arrangement this saves roughly 700 kg, and that saving is precisely what makes the off-grid pack fit under 3,500 kg.

More air handling than a coffee unit, not less

• Inverter split heat pump, heating and cooling from one unit.
• Insulation: 60 mm PIR in the walls, 80 mm in the roof, 50 mm in the floor, a thermal break at the frame, double glazing.
• Nail studio: source extraction at every station plus ridge ducting. Acetone vapour and filing dust are the reason this configuration carries more air handling than a unit that serves coffee.
• Barbershop: ridge extraction, with the diesel heater providing cabin heat.

A budget, and every option spends from it

The consequence is worth stating plainly: a maximum-equipment build and a maximum-autonomy build pull against each other. We tell you where the trade sits for your configuration rather than discovering it at handover.

Three things worth deciding early

Lead time, documents, warranty

Two to three months from deposit to a finished unit, plus about a week for delivery. The build slot is confirmed when the order is placed.

We are not a reseller. We specify the unit, control the build at every stage, and hand it over ourselves. The warranty is ours.

• Chassis registration documents and plates, and EU type approval.
• Declaration of conformity for the body.
• CE documentation and manuals for every installed item.
• Electrical certificate for the on-board installation.
• Technical file: drawings, weights, tank capacities, wiring and plumbing diagrams.
• A written permit guide for the country where the unit will operate.

Body, structure and joinery

3 years

Chassis, axles and brakes

2 years

Water, electrical and solar

2 years

Installed equipment

The manufacturer's own warranty, registered in your name and handled by us

A unit on wheels is still not a building

The principle is the same as for the bars: movable property rather than construction, so there is no building permit. What you need instead is the right to be on the land, a registered business, a local placement approval where the municipality requires one, and registered chassis and insurance.

One difference matters for a salon. A beauty or barbering service carries its own sanitary and hygiene licensing, separate from the food rules that apply to bars and coffee units, and it is usually the sterilisation and waste requirements an inspector looks at first. The unit is built to meet them: a sterilisation cabinet, a hand basin separate from the service basins, and closed waste storage. The licence itself is issued to you as the operator, and your municipality or health authority confirms what it requires.

This describes the framework we build to. It is not legal advice, and the requirements on your specific plot are confirmed by your own lawyer or your municipality before the unit is placed.

The legal status in full, country by country

What the unit earns

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What a nail studio earns

These are our working assumptions, not a promise. They are set out line by line so you can argue with them rather than take them on faith.

The model is a nail studio: four stations, eighteen shifts a month, an average ticket in line with current Montenegrin pricing. A unit at €45,000.

The technician is the product

At 85% occupancy the technicians take 45% of revenue, about €4,850 of €10,770. Materials are 10 to 12%, and fuel and local fees are most of the rest.

Technician pay is the largest line by a wide margin, and it is a share of revenue rather than of profit. That is how this trade works: the person is what the client is booking.

What the table leaves out

• Payroll taxes are not in it. If technicians are employed, contributions sit on top; if they are registered as sole traders working for a percentage, which is the norm in this trade, the picture is different. Your accountant decides which applies to you.
• The tow vehicle is not in the unit price, and a return should be worked out on what you actually spend rather than on the unit alone.
• The first two or three months will not reach 70%. A new format takes time to fill a diary, and six months to working occupancy is the realistic assumption.

If you are the technician

Most buyers of a unit like this work in it. Then the 45% is not paid out, and the arithmetic looks quite different, but exactly how different depends on how many of the four stations are worked by someone on a percentage.

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The unit, specified

One platform, 18 ft, twin-axle. Everything below is the standard build; the fit-out on top of it is drawn to your brief and priced with it.

What it is made of

Chassis

Twin-axle, braked, EU type approval, registration plates and papers included

Weight

Built to stay under 3,500 kg gross. The final figure depends on the configuration you order

Power, standard

Shore connection, 230 V 16 A single phase, full distribution board, RCD protection, external socket. Generator input as standard

Water

150 litre fresh tank, pump, filtration and softening sized for espresso equipment. Tanks travel empty and fill on site

Waste

180 litre grey tank, larger than the fresh one so it cannot overflow first. Emptied at any standard point

Insulation

60 mm PIR in the walls, 80 mm in the roof, 50 mm in the floor, a thermal break at the frame, double glazing

Climate

Inverter split heat pump, heating and cooling from one unit, sized to the interior

Capacity

Up to 8 guests inside. Served through the hatch there is no limit beyond how fast the equipment pours

Crew

Comfortable for one, workable for two at peak

Set-up on site

Four drop-leg stabilisers, level ground, no foundation, no groundworks

The weight line is the one that decides how you live with the unit. Under 3,500 kg gross it is an ordinary braked trailer, towed by a suitable pickup or van on a BE or B96 licence and moved by you or by any local haulier. Above it, every single move needs a specialised heavy carrier. That is why the figure is a budget we manage rather than a number we quote loosely.

Off-grid, if you need it

The standard unit expects a power connection or a generator. If you want it to work where there is neither, we build it off-grid: solar array, LiFePO4 battery bank, inverter and charge controller, sized to the equipment you have chosen.

This is priced separately and it is not a small line. Espresso machines and refrigeration are heavy consumers, so the pack has to be built around your actual equipment list rather than a standard figure. Tell us the machine and the hours you want to run, and we size it and quote it, including how long the unit works on a full charge and how fast it recovers.

Worth knowing before you ask for it: the pack adds weight, and weight on this platform is the budget above. In practice an off-grid build and a maximum-equipment build pull against each other, and we tell you where that trade sits for your case rather than discovering it at the weighbridge.

Two to three months, plus about a week to deliver

The build slot is confirmed when the order is placed. Delivery takes roughly a week to the countries we currently serve.

The documents it comes with

We are not a reseller. We specify the unit, we control the build at every stage, and we hand it over ourselves.

• Chassis registration documents and plates.
• EU type approval for the chassis.
• Declaration of conformity for the body.
• CE documentation and manuals for every installed item: machine, grinders, refrigeration, water system, electrical.
• Electrical certificate for the on-board installation.
• Full technical file: drawings, weights, tank capacities, wiring and plumbing diagrams.
• A written permit guide for the country where the unit will operate.

Given by us, not passed along

Body, structure and joinery

3 years

Chassis, axles and brakes

2 years

Water, electrical and, where fitted, solar

2 years

Installed equipment

The manufacturer's own warranty, registered in your name and handled by us if anything goes wrong

Wear items, damage from misuse, and equipment serviced by third parties are excluded, as with any equipment warranty.

Where it may stand, and on what paperwork

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A unit is not a building

It is a registered trailer on a twin-axle chassis with plates and papers, and for as long as it stands on its wheels it remains movable property.

What that one fact changes

You are not applying for a building permit, you are not going through a design and construction approval, and the unit does not become part of the land it stands on. You keep the right to move it, sell it or take it with you.

The line to respect is the same everywhere: a unit on wheels, without foundations and without hard connections to mains services, is a vehicle. A unit set on blocks, with the wheels removed and pipes buried into the ground, starts to look like a building to an inspector, whatever the paperwork says.

What you do need

• The right to be on the land: your own property, or a written agreement with the owner. On public ground, a lease or a placement approval from the municipality.
• A registered business and a hospitality or trade licence, with the food-safety requirements that apply to any mobile serving point.
• A local placement approval, where the municipality requires one for a unit standing on the same spot through a season.
• Registered chassis and insurance for towing on public roads.

Temporary objects, decided by the municipality

Montenegrin municipalities regulate this through their own decisions on temporary objects, adopted under the national planning and construction law. Each municipality has a Programme of Temporary Objects setting out where they may stand and under what urban conditions, and it covers private land as well as municipal land.

• Placement is approved by the municipality, not through a construction procedure.
• On private land the approval typically runs up to one year and not less than two months, renewable, and is tied to the land keeping its current planned use.
• A local communal fee is payable for placing a temporary object, on private land as well as municipal land.
• An approval to carry out the activity is required alongside the placement approval.
• The coastal strip is Morsko dobro and sits under a separate regime with its own authority. A unit standing on the coast is a different procedure from one standing inland.

The wheels are the whole argument

Croatian practice draws the distinction sharply. A mobile unit on wheels is a movable object, not permanently attached to the ground, so it does not fall under the Construction Act and no building permit is issued for it. A kiosk or a prefabricated structure built on private land does need one, which is exactly why the wheels matter.

• The unit may be placed where the spatial plan for that location allows it, and the local planning department is the office to ask.
• What turns a mobile unit into a building in the eyes of an inspector is permanence: foundations, buried service connections, and continuous use as fixed premises.
• Agricultural land is the strictest category. It is intended for agricultural production and the buildings that serve it, so anything permanent there is a separate and much harder conversation. A unit on wheels avoids that conversation as long as it stays mobile.
• Serving guests requires the hospitality activity to be registered, with the food-safety requirements that go with it.

A category built for exactly this

Georgian law has a non-stationary trading place: a temporary structure made of assembled elements or a mobile system, as opposed to a permanent building. Building permits in Georgia are tied to building classes, and a mobile serving unit is not treated as a construction project in the way a permanent café building is.

• The unit is registered and operated as a vehicle plus a registered business, not as construction.
• Placement is agreed with the landowner on private land and with the municipality on public land.
• Local rules on trading objects and their placement are set at municipal level, so Tbilisi and Batumi are asked separately.
• Food-safety registration with the National Food Agency applies to serving, as it does to any mobile point.

This page describes the framework we build to and the questions we help you answer. It is not legal advice. The requirements on your specific plot are confirmed by your own lawyer or your municipality before the unit is placed, and we give you the written guide to take to them.

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What the price is made of, and when it comes back

Every component we costed, what each one adds, and the arithmetic of a season, separately for the bar and for the coffee bar. Disagree with a line rather than with the conclusion.

The shell is ours. The equipment is your choice.

Two units off the same drawing can differ by twenty thousand euro, and all of that difference sits in the equipment. Some buyers already own machines. Some have a supplier they have worked with for years. Some want one particular espresso machine and nothing else. We build the trailer around whatever you decide, and the price follows that decision rather than a price list of ours.

If you bring your own equipment, its line simply comes out of the quotation. What stays is the shell, the services and the fitting, and we will say plainly whether what you have will work in a trailer that moves.

The shell, and everything that makes it road-legal

This part does not change with the fit-out. It is the same trailer under a draft bar and under an espresso counter: the chassis, the body, the services, the paint and the papers.

What goes into pouring

Built around the glycol line, because that is what decides whether the last pour at midnight is the same temperature as the first one at noon.

Where the choice of machine changes everything

The espresso machine and the grinders are the single largest variable in the whole quotation. A mid-range two-group and a La Marzocco Linea are eight thousand euro apart, and the trailer around them is identical.

What a unit comes to

Delivered to your gate, in your own livery, with the papers. The spread inside each line is the equipment, not our margin, which stays the same across the whole range.

What a draft bar earns

The client brings the kegs, so there is no drinks cost on our side. In exchange the outing costs more to run: a pub has to be towed, set up and taken down by two people.

What an espresso bar earns

One barista, three hours on site, a hundred and fifty drinks: the package the Alberta operator sells. Here the drinks do cost something, because you are the one supplying them.

What these numbers rest on

Component prices here are market estimates, not quotations we have been given. The rate of €1,450 an outing is an estimate for western Europe; the only rates we can point at are the two North American operators who publish theirs. Both will move when we have invoices and European operators to compare against, and we will publish what changes.

Not in the price: VAT, the vehicle that tows it, your insurance, and whatever your own municipality asks of a business serving food or drink.

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Farms

Working households and highland pastures that host our residences. Each one was already there, doing its own work.

Be there for the first season

Booking is not open. The first residences deploy in Montenegro in Q1 2027, and we contact this list before anything else. Tell us roughly when you'd want to come and we'll write when those dates exist.

Buying a bar or a coffee unit is a different conversation, and that one is open now. Say which unit in the box below and you get a quotation rather than a place on a list.

Host a residence on your farm

You keep farming. We put a residence on a corner of your land and bring the guests to it.

Write to us

Tell us where the farm is and what you already do there.

About Tiny Mansion

Who we are

Yuri Korsakov

Founder · Operations

Six years across architecture and hospitality. Designed the concept, moved to Montenegro to run production and deployment on the ground.

Sergei Ermakov

Co-founder · Brand

Ten years in hospitality and real estate marketing, including Wyndham, Best Western and Radisson Individuals.

Nana Tabidze

Advisor · Guest experience

Thirty years of executive leadership, and founder of an award-winning Georgian destination operator.

Aleksan Vartapetyan

Platform engineering

Five years full-stack. Builds the booking engine and the farm-partner platform.