If you want it to Look like a Vardo use the arched roof/
Bow Roof, especially if the spars/purlins will run front to
back. From what I've seen of build picks of such, it's not
that difficult.
Peaked roofs are simpler to build but rather ordinary,
especially if they run front to back. One of my idiosyncratic
pet peeves about Tiny Houses, is that they use the gable roof
with the roof peak run front-to-back and then use a loft for
sleeping that has minimal headroom. If you'd run the roof peak
side to side, at any location [but especially in the middle], you can
create a loft area with much more usable room/headroom.
Call this a 'side gable' design.
To be very different and gain much Usable loft space, do an
arched/large-bow-roof and run the purlins/spars side-to-side,
on top of the curved top of the sidewall and do a little roof
overhang of a foot or so at the front and back. This gives the
most usable headroom and 'character'. Here's a fast Paint diagram
I did comparing them. [Unfortunately they're not identically 'to
scale', but they'll give you a visual idea of what I'm talking about.]
[Click to see larger view.]
A very shallow sloped side-gable roof would approximate the
side-bow under-roof space, but the curve of the roof provides
the most under-roof room.
Here's a Shed Roof design [a flat sloped roof] for more headroom.
http://tinyhouseblog.com/stick-built/la ... tiny-home/http://tinyhousing.ca/index.php/home.htmlHere's a really great Tiny-House design that's one of my
favorites. It uses a Gothic arch design:
http://zylvardos.com/http://zylvardos.com/index.htmlhttp://zylvardos.com/Images/Fortune%20Cookie/index.htmlIt all boils down to personal choice too, but Bow Roof says
Vardo, and a peaked/Gable Roof says Tiny House [with cramped loft] to me.
Cheers,
Norm/mezmo
P.S. After I started this, you, in-the-meanwhile, posted about towing with a
Tracker. I had thought you were talking about your Tiny House for this
post [so that is more of what I addressed in it], not the
cabin-like TTT. Still, a Bow Roof is more distinctive and not that
hard to do, especially on a smaller unit.
If you have a house - you have a hobby.