This episode by Kirsten Dirksen reminds me how important it is to stay creative and open minded while finding solutions for your tiny house build. The owner of this tiny home on stilts found a unique solution to meet building codes for his project: it’s an observation tower. Fred Reid, owner (and airline exec), calls it The House of Tree because it has no electricity or plumbing but it does have an elevated 360 degree view of the trees.

When you’re here, you feel as if you’re one with nature and this allows you to easily escape from everything else. The humble home is approximately 200 square feet and is surrounded by the epic redwood grove. Scott Constable, of Wowhaus, helped design and build this awesome little cabin in the air, who you’ll get to hear from if you watch the video below.

Fred Reid is currently president of Flexjet and has also served as an executive at Delta Airlines, Virgin America, and Lufthansa. This little cabin is his off-grid escape. It sits three stories above the ground in West Sonoma. Let’s go check it out, shall we?

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Tiny House on Stilts Legalized as an Observation Tower?

Photo Courtesy of Kirsten Dirksen and Nicólas Boullosa of Faircompanies.com

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Do you ever wonder what it’s like living in a tiny house?  The best way is to go rent one and spend a few nights in one. That’s why we have a tiny house vacations category. Go try one out if you’re serious about it. But another fun way to explore the idea of tiny living is to sort of daydream and imagine what it would be like living in a tiny house, right?

And the best part is, you can do that right here right now without having to go anywhere or spend any money. So here are a collection of videos that will help you imagine and almost experience what it would be like living tiny! Please enjoy, bookmark this page and return later, and please let me know in the comments… How do you think your life would be like if you went tiny? Would it be better than it is now, you think? Why?

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What It’s REALLY Like to Live in a Tiny House And How to Figure out if it Would be Good or Bad for YOU…

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To tiny… or not to tiny?

That is the question, right? Let’s explore that questions below.

Deek just released a new video tour of Jay Shafer’s original Tumbleweed Epu tiny house. This tiny home design is 8′ wide and 15′ long and sits on a 7′ x 14′ trailer, but you can also build it on a foundation. It’s an 89 square foot house without including the porch and upstairs sleeping loft.

It’s estimated to cost you $19,950 in materials to build it yourself. Others have done it for much less using reclaimed materials. Also you can always buy the Epu building plans and have a contractor do the work for you, or follow the plans yourself. If you’re new to construction, consider one of the many Tumbleweed tiny house workshops throughout the country.

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Deek takes you on a tour of Jay Shafer’s original Tumbleweed EPU Tiny House on Wheels!

Photo Credit YouTube / RelaxShacks.com

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Christopher and Merete from TINY: the Movie are in a new video with their tiny house and their story. It’s a 127 square foot house that they built on a trailer so that they can build a mortgage-free life for themselves without having to endure the consumer pressure of owning a larger home.

Just the other day I talked about how tiny homes were featured on Russia Times as a big trend in Real Estate. MSN features this video interview with them on their website. And so the movement continues to thrive as more people- every day- are learning how they can live richer lives with less stuff.

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Photo Courtesy of TINY a story about living small

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This small studio cabin is a vacation rental in Joshua Tree, California.

The owners named it Luna Mesa and you’ll get the complete house tour right here.

The home has panoramic views of the Joshua Tree Mountains.

Here you’re literally inside the Joshua Tree National Park so you can find campgrounds, trails, and Skull Rock, which is a natural rock formation that looks like a human skull.

So let’s check out the house. I included it here because it’s unusual and- of course- quite small.

Take a look at the photos and details below then let me know what you liked best about it in the comments.

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Photo Credits Airbnb.com

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Russia Times published an article and video on tiny houses as a growing real estate trend.

It’s titled Dreaming Big, Living Small: Tiny House Movement Gaining Real Estate.

I’ve always realized that tiny houses aren’t for everyone. That there will always be a need for regular- and even- large homes.

The issue is that there are lots of folks out there who’d like to live and pay for a smaller home, but the options aren’t there.

And I think that’s why this ‘movement’ is gaining steam. People are sick and tired of getting taken advantage of financially so they’re coming up with solutions so that they can get ahead.

After all, isn’t that what the American dream is all about, anyway? It’s about getting what you want out of this life. And if you’ve got an over-sized home and mortgage, that’s likely a daunting challenge.

 

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Photo Courtesy of Renjith Krishnan

I believe that tiny- or even just smaller- homes are the most important part of this solution for single people, families, and also the elderly because of their potential affordability. Some people are going completely mortgage-free within a year or two.

Can you imagine how different your life might be without a mortgage or rent? Or even if it were just significantly less?

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Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders has already designed his new house and is in the process of building it right now.

It’s called Tinier Living because it’s the smallest of his other two designs thus far.

This one is meant to be a smaller version of their ‘Tiny Living‘ design which you might have seen before.

The house is just 12′ long so that it’s lighter and easier to move around.

 

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The design for this tiny house includes:

• Kitchen
• Bathroom
• Family room
• Large dormers
• 7′ sleeping loft
• Vaulted Ceilings

Photo Courtesy of Dan Louche / Tiny Home Builders

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This tiny house documentary was created by Kirsten Dirksen, it’s called We the Tiny House People. In the last few years, we’ve gotten to see a lot of tiny house and simple living videos, and most of them are thanks to her.

Nobody has been more dedicated to bringing you closer and closer to these homes and their inhabitants than Kirsten Dirksen of Faircompanies.com. Her first interview was with Jay Shafer was approximately five years ago and it has now reached more than 1 million views.

Since then she has gone on to cover so much more, including Jenine Alexander’s self-designed and built $3,5000 tiny house made from recycled materials. After filming hundreds of hours worth of simple living footage- from people living in converted shipping containers, garages, houseboats, sheds, tree houses, and Airstream trailers- she has now released her first documentary (see below).

Updated January 3, 2019

Tiny House Documentary: We The Tiny House People – Dive into the World of Tiny Homes

Photo Credits Kirsten Dirksen / YouTube

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