We create homes on a tiny footprint!
ruru homes: From the materials to workmanship, our company values and ethics, to vision and customer service, we pride ourselves in perfection. ruru homes offer high end quality, tiny homes on wheels, easily transportable on the road. We offer standard layouts to custom designs of our tiny homes.
We are predominately using NZ made building materials, creating a sustainable footprint in the community, with long term, permanent, above living wage employment opportunities!
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ruru homes is a small, but very fast growing company creating sustainable homes, relocatable buildings, cabins, baches or whatever you wish to define them as, on a high level for an affordable price.
>>> We pride ourselves in high end quality, top class workmanship, clever design and high standards – on a tiny footprint.
At ruru homes, we do things right, most importantly we do this as a team!
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We are working closely with our community and ruru homes want to make a difference in the future and are excited about where the ruru is ‘flying’. Please read our latest news and join ruru newsletter.
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Daniel and Fran Huelsmeyer of Ruru Homes, at their site in Motueka where up to 10 tiny homes are under construction at once. "Fran Huelsmeyer, from Ruru Homes, in Motueka,…
'Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce Business Award for Best Startup Business 2021' We are incredibly stoked, and grateful, that our amazing team at ruru has taken us this far. We…
Apprentices Zoë Cowling, 22, Maddie Bryan, 18, and Mia Burford-Baynes, 23, say they’ve not experienced any disrespect as female tradies on the Ruru Homes lot. "Zoë Cowling says people are…
A Ruru Homes tiny home being loaded on to a barge at Marahau, before being transported to Awaroa in Abel Tasman National Park. "When is a tiny home not a…
Daniel and Fran Huelsmeyer, left, with Motueka Community Board member David Armstrong and Tasman District Council Motueka ward councilor Trindi Walker at the Ruru Homes base in Motueka. A resource…
Fran Huelsmeyer of Ruru Homes with the sixth home the company has built. The home was being transported by Abel Tasman Sea Shuttles from Marahau to Awaroa in Abel Tasman…
Fran and Daniel Huelsmeyer, who started Ruru Homes, have created 30 jobs and expanded to Motueka to upscale their new business. "Taking a big punt on a tiny home business…
After the Covid-driven demise of international tourism, Fran and Daniel Huelsmeyer stopped running a lodge and starting building tiny homes. Video first published in January 2021. "After bookings for their…
