Ruru Tiny Homes - Australia

Name: Ruru Tiny Homes - Australia
Address: Brisbane, QLD, AU
Telephone: +61433114155

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We are an official industry partner of the School of Engineering at the University of Queensland for timber framed tiny home research program.

We help with landlease, with Council, and design from scratch, to exactly what you like. We love tiny homes!

12/11/2026

The painters have put on the final coat before the Jonas move in, and then we’re soon ready for touchups. This is happening very fast now

12/11/2026

The thing nobody told me about tiny home living: you stop losing things.

I know how that sounds. Like a minor benefit. But let me tell you what it means in practice.

In my previous house I spent a cumulative amount of time looking for things that I prefer not to calculate. Keys. The good scissors. The charger. The thing I put somewhere safe.

In my Ruru, every thing has a place. Not because I'm a disciplined person — I am not — but because there isn't room for things to not have places. There is no surface large enough to accumulate the gentle disorder that characterised my previous life.

The home enforces tidiness not by making tidiness easy but by making disorder immediately, visibly obvious. You can't have a junk room if there's no room that can become a junk room.

The result is a life where I know where things are.

It's a small gift. I receive it every day.

📞 0433 114 155 | rurutinyhomes.com.au

11/11/2026

The Wren, on wheels.

Drawbar, chassis, not permanently connected to the ground. If your life changes, the home can come with you.

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11/11/2026

Sold.

Listed on a Wednesday. Contract signed the following Wednesday. If you were still thinking about it, we’re sorry — but keep reading, because this is not the last one.

We’re so pleased to welcome our first Australian owner into the Ruru family.

Here’s where the Brolga XS goes from here. We finish it at UQ over the next few weeks. It goes on public display on campus for a week in December, and we’ll post the dates shortly. After that it’s open for viewings by appointment through to February. Then it travels to Tasmania — no exaggeration — to be shown at the Tiny Home Expo in Devonport, before it goes onto its owner’s land in Tassie.

Which means you have a few months to come and stand inside one.

That’s the bit worth doing. Photos only go so far. Come and feel the difference between a timber-framed, fully insulated, double-glazed home and a lightweight box. Open the windows. Walk up the stairs. Look at how the joins are finished and where the storage went. Ask us hard questions, because we like them.

Australian builds start in 2027 and we’re taking enquiries now. Tell us what you need and we’ll work out what it looks like.

We call it the Ruru family for a reason. Seven years, more than 200 homes, and we still answer the phone ourselves.

11/11/2026

The smell of a new timber home.

I know. I know this sounds like marketing. Bear with me.

Fresh timber has a specific warm, slightly resinous smell that fills the interior of a newly built home. It's not sharp or chemical. It's the smell of the material doing what timber does — off-gassing the natural compounds that are part of its biology.

That smell fades over months as the timber settles and the finishes cure. But it comes back — subtly, warmly — when the air gets humid, when you sand or work the timber, when a window is open on a warm day.

I've had clients tell me the smell of their home is one of the things they mention first when they tell people about it. Not the layout or the insulation or the fixed price. The smell.

Because it's distinctive. And because it's real. The home smells like what it's made of. That honesty — material honesty, the thing that is what it appears to be — is part of what we mean when we say timber is honest.

Your home will smell like a home. Not like a factory.

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10/11/2026

It takes a village to support the right cause!

What a TERRIFIC weekend it was at the

Our own Wayne was one of the speakers, presenting about design details.

Wayne is a Geelong based architect and business owner who has been an active ATHA member for five years.

He has designed, built and lived in two tiny houses, and his own experience with unclear regulation, including being moved on by his local council, sparked his advocacy work.

Wayne previously partnered with ATHA to advocate for change, helping lead to the Surf Coast Tiny House on Wheels Pilot Program.

10/11/2026

🥰😊🥰

More and more people are seeking land to live in a tiny home, and there is a growing contingent of landowners ready to accommodate them.

10/11/2026

I had the pleasure to meet this absolutely incredible women at the tiny house expo in Cleveland earlier this year, and can only encourage anyone in a position to, to support this cause ❤️‍🩹

10/11/2026

New Zealand and Australia. Two countries, one standard.

I say that with real excitement, not in a 'lessons learned' TED Talk kind of way. After seven years building in New Zealand, the same homes and the same values are now coming to Australia.

In New Zealand the phone keeps ringing. The enquiries come in. The build schedule fills up.

Now in 2026 we're building in New Zealand and Australia simultaneously, and the energy in both operations is exciting. Our first Australian build, a Brolga XS prototype, is underway at the University of Queensland's Structures Lab. New people, new land, new problems to solve in the best possible way.

If you've been watching from the sidelines and wondering when Ruru would arrive in Australia — we're here.

And we're building exactly the same homes we always have. Same timber, same fixed price, same handover, same warranty.

A new country doesn't change what we build. It just makes us very, very certain that how we build it is worth protecting.

Come and build with us. 🏗️💚

📞 0433 114 155 | rurutinyhomes.com.au

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