The busiest stretch of the tiny house event calendar is behind us — TinyFest California, the Carolina Tiny House Festival, and the Fresno Tiny House Expo have all wrapped for the year. But there is still a solid run of shows, expos, and hands-on camps between now and the end of 2026, plus three events already locked in for 2027.
Here is everything still on the calendar, in date order, with what we know about each and a direct link to the organiser.
Image courtesy of United Tiny House Association
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Most tiny houses ask a family to compromise somewhere. Usually it is the bathroom, which shrinks to a wet-room the size of a phone booth, or the second sleeping space, which becomes a crawl-in shelf above the couch. The Kookaburra 2.0 from Unplgd Tiny Homes takes the opposite approach: it stretches to 8.5 metres (about 28 feet), splits the upstairs into two separate lofts, and spends its bonus square footage on a bathroom with a full-size freestanding tub.
Unplgd is a custom builder based in Lawson, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, and the Kookaburra is their signature loft model. This 2.0 version is the family edition — a half-metre longer than the original, reworked around a dual-loft layout, and priced from AU$195,000 turnkey. The show unit in these photos was touring the Australian tiny house expo circuit with a sale sign in the window.
Images courtesy of Unplgd Tiny Homes
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It is the first question almost every Florida reader asks us, and it is the one with the most bad information floating around it: can you legally live in a tiny house in Florida?
The honest answer is yes, thousands of people already do. But Florida does not have one tiny house law. It has two completely separate legal tracks, and which one you land on is decided by a single thing: whether your tiny house has wheels under it. Get that distinction right and the rest of the process is manageable. Get it wrong and you can spend $80,000 on a beautiful home that your county will not let you sleep in.
This guide walks through both tracks, the specific building code Florida has already adopted for tiny houses, what actually happened to the tiny home and ADU bills in Tallahassee, and the four legal paths people are using right now.
The short answer
Tiny house on a permanent foundation: Legal statewide as a dwelling. Florida has adopted Appendix Q, the tiny house building code. Your real obstacle is local zoning, especially minimum house size and minimum lot size rules.
Tiny house on wheels: Legal to own and park, but Florida classifies it as a recreational vehicle or park trailer, not a dwelling. In most residential zones it cannot be your permanent, full-time residence. It belongs in an RV park, a park model community, or a tiny house community.
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If you are trying to decide between a Sprinter and a Transit, or between paying a builder and doing it yourself, there is no substitute for standing inside forty finished vans in one afternoon and asking their owners what they would change.
That is the entire premise of Adventure Van Expo, a travelling show that has been touring Western fairgrounds and ski resorts for years. Three stops remain on the 2026 schedule, and they are stacked into a five-week window between mid-August and mid-September.
Images courtesy of Adventure Van Expo
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If you have ever priced out a tiny house on wheels and then run headfirst into the question that stops most people cold — where am I actually allowed to put this thing? — there is genuinely good news out of Southern California.
San Diego County has formally recognized tiny homes on wheels as legal dwellings. Not as recreational vehicles. Not as temporary structures. As real, permitted, permanently habitable homes that can serve either as a primary residence or as an accessory dwelling unit on a property that already has a house.
This is the kind of policy shift the tiny house movement has been asking for since the beginning, and we first saw it covered by the team at Tru Form Tiny, the Eugene, Oregon builder whose park-model-scale homes fit squarely inside these new rules. We went and pulled the county’s actual determination document so we could walk you through exactly what it says — the freedoms, the fine print, and the parts that trip people up.
Images courtesy of Tru Form Tiny
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If you have been circling the idea of going off-grid but keep stalling out on the practical stuff — how many solar panels you actually need, what happens to the sewage, whether that $4,000 backyard shed could legally become a house — there is a weekend in Middle Georgia built specifically to answer those questions in person.
The United Tiny House Association and Beloved Cabin Homestead run a series of three-day Off-Grid Workshop Camps on a 16-acre homestead outside Eatonton, Georgia. Three sessions remain on the 2026 calendar, and registration is capped tightly enough that they tend to fill.
Images courtesy of United Tiny House Association / Beloved Cabin Homestead
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Most tiny houses that measure just 130 square feet ask you to give something up: the shower shrinks to a closet, the kitchen becomes a hot plate on a shelf, the bed lives in a loft you crawl into. The Shoji, built by Bulgarian studio Koleliba for a client in Brittany, France, quietly refuses that trade. Inside 18 feet of trailer length you get a full standing shower, a real kitchen, a washing machine, a dedicated desk, and a U-shaped couch that unfolds into a queen bed — all of it wrapped in birch plywood and framed by glass. Its owner, Jonathan Guennoc, described it in a line worth repeating: “Our SHOJI home is the most spacious not spacious space.”
Images courtesy of Koleliba
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Tucked into the trees in Soldotna, Alaska, this hand-built home was constructed in 2013 from the Tumbleweed Fencl plan — one of the designs that defined the tiny house movement in its earliest days. It packs roughly 130 square feet into two lofts, a full bathroom, a real kitchen, and a washer/dryer, and the finish level is high: cedar siding, a red metal roof, pine walls, teak hardwood floors, bespoke bead-board cabinetry, butcher block counters, stained glass inlaid in the entry door, and two opening skylights. The asking price is $60,000, which already accounts for one known repair we will get to below.
Images courtesy of the seller via Tiny Home Builders
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Bellingham, Washington is about to become one of the most interesting tiny house towns in America — not because of a builder or a luxury THOW, but because the city keeps proving that a cluster of 96-square-foot cabins can pull people off the street and into permanent housing.
The city has just confirmed its third tiny home village. It will bring 35 to 40 tiny houses to a city-owned lot at 2140 Division Street in the Irongate neighborhood, with construction starting in the winter of 2026 and residents expected to move in during early 2027. The nonprofit HomesNOW! Not Later will operate it, using the same resident-governed model that has made its North Haven village one of the most quietly successful shelter projects in the Pacific Northwest.
Images courtesy of HomesNOW! Not Later
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