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In case you’ve been wondering why there hasn’t been any new posts lately (sorry!), it’s because I’ve been spending most of my time on getting and setting up a new server for tinyhousetalk.wpengine.com. We’ve been getting enough traffic (especially on newsletter days) that it was causing our server to crash and sometimes just perform slower [...]

I’m glad this post caught your attention because I believe it’s really important in regards to tiny houses and the future. Right now the United States requires homes in most areas to be 1,000 square feet or larger. We feel that this attempts to standardize bigger homes and that it forces Americans into more debt. [...]

I just recently got to write a guest blog for Tumbleweed Tiny Houses on How to Simplify Your Wardrobe Right Now. I take you through a simple four-step process that I’ve used to downsize my own wardrobe. Plus I show you a little secret that you’re probably already doing every week to find your absolute [...]

In my neighborhood, there are a few grandfathered-in tiny cottages that I’ve found. Almost all of them are guest houses to a much larger home, on the same lot. And usually, if you keep looking, you can find that they become available for rent once in a while. A lot of times the only way [...]

Today I published a collection of tiny house books, plans, and workshops all in one place. It’s the Tiny House Talk Store. You’ll see I added a link to it in the menu, too. I did this so it’s easy for you to see what’s out there all in one place. By the end of [...]