A few US manufacturers offer horse trailers with ready-made living quarters installed. Installations available range from fairly spartan to quite comfy. My "technical assessment" of them is that they are "outside my budget range."

For the "unhorsed," it should be pointed out that horse trailers, as a class of vehicle, come under the heading of #$@%^!! HEAVY trailers, and generally do require a more capable tow vehicle than most "civilian" trailers. I would question the intelligence of anyone attempting to pull a two-horse trailer with less than a 1-Ton rated truck (generally an ~8,000+ lb GVW vehicle) and the majority of 4 - 6 horse trailers will require a "fifth-wheel" hitch and at least a 1.5-T rated tow vehicle. People do tow with lower capacity vehicles, but they're either very careful and proceed slowly and with caution, or they end up in a ditch - or beside the road with a smoked out transmission or a blown engine. I've known a few people, who could answer the intelligence question and justify using a smaller tow vehicle, but that degree of "trailer knowledge" is rare. Don't assume you have it.

Before buying our current "small" (26-foot) camp trailer, I also played with the notion of what's here called a "toy trailer." This is a simple square box trailer on which nearly the entire back panel drops down to make a ramp for loading/unloading your "toys." Toys are things like motorcycles or ATV transports. There usually is a walk-in small door on one side near the front for access without dropping the ramp. Aside from being about twice the price of a comparably sized (volume) utility trailer, the design assumes a "heavy" load located fairly far to the rear, a bit like a "mini-horse trailer; so towing stability with a typical utility load onboard - and no toys - is possibly a little less "driver friendly" than other trailer types. This type can also be purchased with factory installed living accomodations, although they tend to be "compact" accomodations.

The toy-trailer, posssibly with self-installed equipment, was an attractive notion; but only a little study was needed to put it in the "too expensive" category. (I do still like the idea of a built in stage on the back.)

John