When Jonathan Perera bought a 36-foot Bluebird school bus in January 2020, he set one rule for himself before the first seat ever came out. “I went into the project knowing that I wasn’t going to treat this like every other school bus conversion that I had seen online,” he says — and the finished bus makes good on that promise.
He paid $7,000 for the flat-nose Bluebird, a 130,000-mile body chosen for its minimal rust and its short wheelbase relative to its length. Two years and more than $170,000 later, that retired school bus has become a polished, four-season home that Jonathan has driven roughly 11,000 miles across the United States with his Siberian Husky, Skye. He partnered with Skoolie.com in Hendersonville, North Carolina, where the crew stripped the interior, raised the roof a full 20 inches, rebuilt the walls in steel, and brought in about $20,000 of custom woodwork.
A certified life coach and small-business consultant who also teaches snowboarding in the winter, Jonathan runs his work from the road and filled the bus with design cues collected on his travels: a Moroccan-inspired backsplash that nods to his grandmother, arches and exposed beams borrowed from a villa on Mexico’s Holbox Island, and art and ceramics gathered from New Mexico to Canada. Let’s step inside.
If you have ever dreamed of designing and building your own small home, the Catskills Tiny House Workshop offers one of the most hands-on, immersive experiences available anywhere — and the next session is coming up soon. Set in the charming hamlet of Livingston Manor in New York’s beautiful Catskill Mountains, this workshop goes far beyond a typical classroom setting. Attendees don’t just learn about tiny houses — they live in them.
The next immersive workshop takes place June 19–20, 2026, and it covers everything from designing and moving a small house to overseeing its construction. What makes this workshop unique is that you learn all of this while actually staying inside one of several tiny homes on the property.
Every now and then a build comes along that is impossible to forget — and this copper-clad steampunk teardrop trailer from The Love Bird Company is exactly that. Created by Dutch maker Ronald Sponselee, the little camper started life as an old caravan and was reborn under hand-fitted copper plating, antique maps, and glints of brass at every turn. Ronald originally built it as a rental for holidaymakers, but he fell so hard for the finished trailer that he decided to keep it for his own adventures instead. It is easy to see why. Let’s take a closer look.
Most tiny houses ask you to give something up. A ladder instead of stairs. A camp-stove instead of a kitchen. A mattress wedged under a sloped ceiling instead of a real bedroom. The NOOSA, built by Australia’s two-time Tiny House Builder of the Year, LJM Tiny Homes, was designed around the opposite idea: that you should be able to live small without living like you’re camping.
When most people picture a van conversion, they imagine a sleek Sprinter with white walls and a fold-down bed. Lucy and Ben went the other way entirely. The British couple took a rusty 1979 Bedford CF chassis cab they bought for just £450 (about $570) and spent two years hand-building it into a richly detailed 1970s-style cabin — complete with a full-size waterfall shower, a live-edge kitchen, and a sleeping nook crowned by a glowing skylight dome.
The result feels less like a campervan and more like a gypsy wagon crossed with a woodland cabin: green corduroy seating, reclaimed elm worktops, hand-carved window frames charred with a blowtorch, and a vintage radio crackling in the corner. After six years of full-time travel across Europe in an LDV Convoy, the pair parked this build on a three-acre camping meadow near the north Cornwall coast, where it now welcomes couples as a one-of-a-kind Airbnb stay.
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Lofts have long been the default trick for squeezing a bedroom into a tiny house, but they come with a real cost: a ladder to climb every night, a low ceiling overhead, and a sleeping space that can feel more like a crawl space than a bedroom. The Eire, a striking new model from Australia’s Häuslein Tiny House Co, takes the opposite approach — and proves you can live comfortably on a single level without giving up an inch of style.
Perfectly centered on the quiet waters of Lost Lake, the SHORELINE Glass House at Lot 21 in Canoe Bay Village is one of the most striking lakefront retreats you will ever step inside. Its fresh design is built around a single bold idea — bring the outdoors in — with an expansive 30-foot wall of glass that opens onto sweeping, uninterrupted views of the water and the protected nature preserve beyond. Offered fully furnished and move-in ready, this oversized park-model home pairs floor-to-ceiling glass and warm natural materials with a completely stress-free ownership model: no HOA fees and no property taxes. Let’s take a closer look.
Most tiny houses solve the small-space problem by building up — stacking a sleeping loft over the living area and calling it a day. The Wildscape, an 8.4-meter tiny house from Australian builder Tiny Tect, takes a more ambitious approach: it treats the interior as a three-dimensional puzzle, tucking rooms above, below, and beside one another so that a footprint barely wider than a parking space can hold two bedrooms, a study, a dining nook, a full kitchen, and even a suspended net to lounge in.
Set in a beautiful wooded setting of mixed hardwoods with access to multiple private lakes, the brand-new WOODLAND at Lot 12 in Canoe Bay Village offers a truly serene retreat — and it is especially spectacular in the fall. This upgraded park-model cabin pairs a warm pine interior, a cozy fireplace, and direct screened-porch access with a completely stress-free ownership model and no property taxes. Let’s take a closer look.
