2015

It Begins...

New Frontier Design was originally New Frontier Tiny Homes. It began with David Latimer and his father Eddie. Eddie made all of this possible, introducing David to the tiny house concept as a solution for Affordable Housing in Nashville TN (Eddie is the founder and owner of Affordable Housing Resources, Nashville’s oldest AH nonprofit). He financed the construction of 2 tiny homes based on plans from another company to learn about the process and the market before creating their own original designs.
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2016

HGTV and The Alpha is Born

David soon met Zac Thomas, who was fundamental in the upward trajectory of the company. He would later invest and bring 10 years of invaluable production building experience to the table. A rare opportunity to be featured on HGTV presented itself, and in short order, David and Zac created the Alpha Tiny Home. While the intentions were not to create a luxury home, the excitement about the TV opportunity inspired David and Zac to design and build the best tiny home they’d ever seen. 

The Alpha launched New Frontier into immediate popularity and brought acclaim from all over the world. It was featured on HGTV, Good Morning America, Disney, The Today Show, CNN, etc and was featured in Architectural Digest and Dwell, amongst dozens of other publications. We were very lucky, and at the right place at the right time.

During this time, David worked at the Entrepreneur Center in Nashville and fortuitously bumped into a to-be mentor, Stryker Warren, a guiding light to the company’s formation and early growth.

David and a small team of friends built the first couple of orders, but as demand grew, so did the need to hire a full team and find a proper production facility.

2017

Expansion and a Full Court Press

The year began in a new home with a new full time team of very talented builders and craftsman. Shortly thereafter, we created our second original design: the Escher Tiny Home. This design/build also presented another HGTV opportunity. More features by Dwell and Architectural Digest.

We collaborated with Disney to build a new home for victims of the California wild fires. We presented it to them live on Good Morning America in Oculus plaza at the new World Trade Center in NYC.

2018

New Models, New Innovations and Olivia Wilde in New York City

We released the Cornelia and the Orchid tiny homes. Due to our packed schedule, we turned down other HGTV opportunities to focus on scaling and designing new models. 

We collaborated with Olivia Wilde and Dunkin’ to create a completely off-grid home that runs off of a coffee bean biofuel. The Home that Runs on Dunkin’ was featured at a public event created specifically for the project in Madison Square Park in NYC.

The company continued to grow in popularity, reputation as one of the highest design and quality tiny home builders in the world, and in demand.

2019

Operationalizing Growth

With some wind in our sails, we looked to build our operations and sales teams to keep up with demand from all angles; retail customers, consumers, developers, and Airbnb entrepreneurs. Building everything in house for the first 4.5 years was an incredible and necessary learning experience.

But David’s first love and passion is design, and he was ready for a change from spending most of his time managing the construction of the homes. So for this reason, and in an attempt to scale, we began to outsource production.
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It was during this time that we began working with Liberation Tiny Homes. They are exceptionally talented builders and incredible humans. And they began building our homes, and to this day still do! Because of Liberation our company was able to change dramatically.
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