Small Living Company

12/08/2026

We've moved two of our tiny homes to the Orléans Home

If you've been following what we're building at Small Living Co. and have been waiting to see one in person, now's your chance.

Stop by, take a walk through the units, and see how we're approaching attainable, deployable housing.

You'll find us at:
The Home Depot Orléans
2121 Tenth Line Road

We look forward to hearing what you think.

23/07/2026

Canada needs 3.87 million new homes by 2031.

That number isn't going to be met by a handful of national builders.

It will be met by hundreds of capable regional operators who understand their communities and can deliver housing quickly, consistently, and at scale.

That's one of the reasons we created the Small Living Co Certified Regional Operator Program.

We're building a network of regional partners who can deploy, sell, and support our modular housing systems within their own territories. We provide the product, training, standards, and ongoing support. Our operators bring local relationships, local knowledge, and the ability to deliver.

This isn't a franchise.

It isn't a dealership in the traditional sense.

It's a partnership built around one shared goal: increasing Canada's housing capacity through a network of trusted regional operators.

To protect each partner's opportunity, we're opening one territory at a time and keeping training cohorts intentionally small.

If you're a builder, contractor, developer, or business owner looking to add deployable housing to your business, we'd love to have a conversation.

Join the waitlist:

04/06/2026

Esprit de Corps attended the Netherlands Embassy's Hail & Farewell reception in Ottawa, celebrating the retirement of Captain (Ret'd) Wendy Sewell and welcoming Maaike Kriellaars. The evening's highlight was Sewell receiving the Order of the King of the Netherlands for her exceptional service to

13/05/2026

This is the warehouse where we build our homes.

With the space behind us, we’re capable of producing one unit per day.

It’s incredible how much output can come from this building.

13/05/2026

Canada’s housing industry is starting to shift.

For a long time, alternative housing was looked at as some niche idea. Something temporary. Something unrealistic.

Now we’re seeing municipalities, developers, veterans groups, and everyday Canadians all looking at the same issue:

Traditional housing is becoming harder and harder to access.

Not because people don’t work hard enough.
Because the costs, timelines, and infrastructure requirements keep climbing.

That’s why you’re starting to hear more conversations around:
- modular housing,
- backyard suites,
- deployable housing,
- and self-sustaining systems.

Not as a trend.
As an actual solution.

The interesting part is that the conversation is moving beyond “tiny homes.”

It’s becoming about creating housing systems that can realistically be deployed faster, adapted to different environments, and made more accessible for Canadians.

There’s still a long way to go with zoning, financing, and infrastructure, but the conversation today looks very different than it did even a few years ago.

And personally, I think that’s a good thing.

09/05/2026

Small Living Co was recently mentioned in a piece by Esprit de Corps Magazine discussing one of the most overlooked challenges in Canada’s Arctic and northern strategy: housing.

As Canada continues investing in Arctic sovereignty, NORAD modernization, northern infrastructure, and operational readiness, one critical issue continues to sit underneath all of it — the ability to sustainably support the people operating there.

At Small Living Co, our focus has always been larger than “tiny homes.” We focus on deployable, self-sustaining housing systems designed for rapid deployment, harsh climates, and long-term operational flexibility.

The reality is that infrastructure is only as effective as the people who can live and work around it. Whether supporting military personnel, infrastructure crews, emergency response teams, RCMP, or remote operations, housing cannot be treated as a secondary issue.

It’s encouraging to see this conversation beginning to happen more openly at a national level. Canada’s northern future will require new ways of thinking about infrastructure, deployment, and sustainment.

https://youtu.be/dNMXyL3hpuc?si=lO9Fpwqzq--k36Lh

Over the next decades the Canadian military is set to spend a boatload of money to increase our defence presence in the high Arctic. The question begs where ...