Australia’s tiny home scene has quietly turned into one of the most active in the world, and the clearest place to see it is the Tiny Homes Expo circuit — a travelling show that sets up in a different state every few weeks with 25-plus finished builds you can walk through, climb into, and open the cupboards of.
Four stops remain on the 2026 schedule, running from late August through the end of November. If you have been following our coverage of Australian builders, this is your chance to see that work in person rather than through a screen.
Images courtesy of Tiny Homes Expo Australia
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Most of us learn about off-grid living the same way: YouTube rabbit holes, forum threads, and a lot of hopeful guessing. You can read about a composting toilet for two years and still have no idea what one actually smells like, how it gets emptied, or whether your spouse will tolerate it. That gap between reading and doing is exactly what the 2026 Off-Grid Workshop Camps are built to close.
Hosted by John and Fin Kernohan — founders of the United Tiny House Association — these are three-day, hands-on weekend camps held at their own property, Beloved Cabin Homestead & Stay, near Lake Oconee in Middle Georgia. It’s roughly 1.5 hours east of Atlanta off I-20, and the specific address only goes out to registered attendees. You don’t sit in a conference hall looking at slides. You walk around a working homestead where all of this stuff is actually installed, running, and being lived with every day.
Images courtesy of United Tiny House Association
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The van gathering calendar has a shape to it: a heavy run through spring and early summer, a late-summer cluster in the mountains, then a long quiet stretch until February. Here is what is still on the calendar for 2026, what has already run, and — just as important — which well-known gatherings are currently in limbo. Van events change plans more than most, so a few of these come with caveats you should read before booking anything.
Image courtesy of Adventure Van Expo
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Most van gatherings are a field, a stage, some vendor booths, and whatever you brought to eat. VanWild is a different animal: four nights in Montrose, Colorado where breakfast, dinner, drinks, and a guided adventure every single day are all included in one ticket.
The fifth annual VanWild runs September 17–20, 2026 at The Camper’s Hub, and the format is worth understanding even if you never go — because it points at where van gatherings may be heading.
Images courtesy of Adrenaline HQ / VanWild
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New Zealand’s tiny house scene has a scale problem that works in its favour: it is small enough that most of the country’s builders can fit under one roof, and once a year they do. The Tiny House Expo returns to Mystery Creek in Hamilton from 30 October to 1 November 2026, billed as New Zealand’s largest tiny house village.
What sets this one apart from a typical home show is the framing. The organisers are not selling a dream — they are openly selling clarity, for people who have read every blog and joined every Facebook group and come out more confused than when they started.
Images courtesy of Tiny House Expo NZ, photos by Matt Crawford Photography
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The 4m Micro Home from Australian maker Elsewhere Pods is an insulated, glazed, climate-controlled shell measuring roughly 4 metres by 2.4 metres (about 13 ft. by 7 ft. 10 in.), or about 103 square feet of ground area. It arrives as a shell rather than a finished home — the kitchen and bathroom you will see in the renders below are quoted separately — but the delivery model is the real story: the whole pod is prefabricated and test-assembled in the factory, flat-packed, shipped to your site, and reassembled in two to five days, with about twelve weeks start to finish. For anyone who has watched a conventional build stretch across a year, that number is the headline.
Images courtesy of Elsewhere Pods
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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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