Books

Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders just released an updated version of his book Tiny House Design & Construction Guide. The book has almost doubled in length at 143 pages and it boasts over 100 color photos and illustrations to guide you along the way. It covers just about everything you can think of when [...]

Have you heard of Tammy Strobel’s You Can Buy Happiness (And It’s Cheap)? It’s a book she just released today.. I just got my copy on Amazon a few minutes ago. In this post you’ll get to read my thoughts, notes, and highlights while reading the book. In it, Tammy tells the story of how [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve posted on van dwelling and this tiny house bus hits the spot just right with its wood accents and beautiful stained glass features. It was obviously highly customized by its owner and used heavily for traveling as a lifestyle. According to this forum post, it was built back in [...]

In this video-based post, you’re going to learn the basics of how to floor and frame a Tumbleweed tiny house on a trailer. In this video, they are building the Fencl tiny house using an 18′ trailer. The design shown here is 130 square feet without including the upstairs sleeping loft and the tiny front [...]

Deek just published a video tour that his brother, Dustin, shot of the Bolt Together House. According to Deek, in 1972 this small house design was featured in Family Circle Magazine. I recognized it from Lester Walker’s book, The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses which was published in 1993. Apparently, more than 25,000 people purchased [...]

A few days ago I received Derek Diedricksen’s latest edition of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks in the mail so I was pretty excited to be able to review it so you can see what it’s all about before you order it. In this video I’ll give you a sneak peak of the book that way [...]