Question: Should I be considering RVIA certified tiny houses? Answer: Although you can always build a tiny house on wheels without an RVIA certification right now I’m showing you why you should seriously consider saying ‘yes’ to RVIA certified tiny houses. If you ever want to be able to park and live in your tiny home in an RV [...]
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You and Your Family’s Behavior At Home
The idea of simple living is no new concept but over the last decade simple living has evolved into the ever-popular concept of tiny house living. The recent movement has grabbed the attention of pragmatic people all over the world as they look for ways to maximize living space and cut living expenses, particularly amongst from [...]
Happy New Year: 2015 Tiny House Book Giveaway
1/14/15 Update: Congratulations to Brad, Robyn, Cherry, Dona, Ashley, and Jared who each one a Tiny House Book for commenting and giving feedback. And a big thanks to you too for reading and participating! I just wanted to take a moment right now to wish you a happy new year and I want to start [...]
Tiny House Building Standards and Safety Issues
Rich Daniels, of Rich’s Portable Cabins in North Powder, Oregon is here to share some wisdom regarding tiny house building standards and safety issues. Since I think his concerns are valid and very important for the future of tiny homes I’m sharing it with you below. Please pass it on. Wanted to just take a [...]
Friends Build a 200 Sq. Ft. Tiny Cabin in 6 Days for $6K
This group of friends decided to leave their cramped apartments in NYC, Chicago, and Raleigh to meet in a tiny town 40 minutes away from Portland, Oregon to build a tiny cabin together. The goal was to fulfill their shared dream of building a cabin in the woods. So when they got there, they worked for [...]
THE ALOHA 2/2 Split Bedroom Floor Plan
One of our readers, Robert Olson, shared one of his floor plan sketches to help another reader. She needed a home to suite the needs of herself and her disabled son. Read the comment below. Thanks, Robert and Alex for the small home ideas. I am a single Mom with a son in his 20’s with special needs [...]
Bigger Trailers for Bigger Tiny Houses on Wheels
This morning I opened an e-mail from one of our readers, Mrs Tiny Lady, regarding the possibility of bigger trailers for bigger tiny houses on wheels (in case you might be interested in that). :) In it she included several links to diagrams of larger trailers versus the more usual flat bed trailers we use [...]