Rancho Cotage High School students have built an amazing solar-powered off-grid tiny house on wheels. It’s the 98 sq. ft. off grid mobile micro cabin on wheels appropriately named The Independence. (Update: Now SOLD)
You can use it as a backyard micro guest house, an office space, or as temporary housing while you build a larger cabin on your land. In fact, if you did own it, what would you use it for? Full-time living? Vacation cabin? Just curious… Let us know in the comments. I’ll tell you what I’d do with it below.
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Students Build Off-Grid Solar Tiny House
See the rest of this student-built off-grid micro home and see how you might still be able to own it (it might still be available for sale) below:
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I wanted to show you these modern micro shelters built out of Sydney, Australia.
They can be used in combination to create a community of micro homes.
Or they can be creatively used to create your own tiny housing compound.
In this situation you might have 1-3 structures total to make up your home.
For example you can use one for living and sleeping, another for working and a third for bathing.
Multi-functional Modern Micro Shelter Pods
© Tom Ferguson
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This custom built modular prefab home has the most amazing windows I think you will enjoy.
Built in 2003 for approximately $60,000 by Geoffrey Warner and his team.
A humble little abode is where a violinist of the Minnesota Orchestra finds a peaceful off-grid retreat with her family.
WeeHouse Modern Prefab Micro House
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This is the Mighty Micro House on Wheels. It’s a 136-square-foot THOW that we first featured back in March of 2014 because it was for sale. Since then, it has sold, but it’s still documented here for your enjoyment.
This tiny house is built on an 18-foot flatbed utility trailer which makes it completely mobile. It weighs about 6,300 pounds and has two 3,500 pound axles. Step inside to find a cozy living area, kitchen, and sleeping loft. What do you think of it?
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Mighty Micro House on Wheels
I encourage you to enjoy touring the rest of this micro home and learning more about it below:
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I don’t consider this a treehouse although it’s a modern micro cabin on stilts (so it’s similar to one).
But Rockefeller Partners Architects call the project and shelter shown here the Banyan Treehouse.
I like the name because it’s like a modern take on the treehouse (using no living trees).
And since the shelter sits 12′ off the ground it still looks and feels like a treehouse.
It’s near downtown Los Angeles and just 170 sq. ft. in size.
The tiny house is built on steel stilts and it has a modern, minimalist and whimsical flair.
Modern, Minimalist & Whimsical Micro Cabin
© Eric Staudenmaier for Rockefeller Partners Architects
If you want to see the rest if this amazing micro studio on stilts enjoy and share below:
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It’s been a while since I discussed the issues of tiny house zoning, codes, and communities.
And asked the question, “can you actually live tiny legally?”
This post will give you my ideas when it comes to legally living tiny, creating communities, and opportunities in the tiny house world.
You’ll also get to read an email from a reader who asked some really great questions (he’s a land use planner).
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Legally Living in Tiny Houses
“I am curious about the “tiny house” as  a legitimate, full time housing option…do they/can they…meet building codes, be attached to the ground, be connected to public water, sewer, and other public utilities, meet energy code standards, meet zoning codes, etc.”
I urge you to read more about legally living tiny, creating communities and even opportunities below:
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