This $103,190 tiny home on wheels was a true product of the pandemic after the company pivoted during lockdown — see inside the 'Dark Horse'

The Dark Horse tiny home.Build Tiny

• Build Tiny unveiled its latest tiny home on wheels: the $103,190 Dark Horse, which was designed and constructed during the pandemic.
• The single-level Dark Horse has a bedroom, living room, kitchen with a breakfast bar, and a dual-purpose laundry and bathroom.
• The conception of the Dark Horse came when two of Build Tiny's customers backed out of projects amid the pandemic, leaving the team of builders with a gap in their schedule.

Build Tiny has unveiled its latest project: the Dark Horse, an approximately $103,190 tiny home on wheels that was designed and constructed during the pandemic.

Build Tiny specializes in, you guessed it, building custom tiny homes that sit on trailer chassis. This one in particular has a bedroom, living space, kitchen with a breakfast bar, and a dual purpose laundry and bathroom.

But unlike most of the New Zealand-based company's little homes on wheels, the Dark Horse wasn't created for or named by a client. Instead, it was designed and built in-house by the team of builders that then had to come up with and vote on its name, the latter a task that's normally delegated to the client.

"The thinking behind it is ... a 'dark horse' is a term usually used to refer to someone that was previously taken for granted, but rose to prominence in a situation — something akin to an underdog success story," Build Tiny's director and designer Gina Stevens told Business Insider in an email interview. "That's how we view ourselves as a company in some ways, and also the tiny house is quite unassuming from the outside, but has a few surprises on the inside."