If you’re dreaming of a lifestyle change, but aren’t sure where to start, you’ll want to check out our eCourse. We’re Hari and Karl Berzins of TinyHouseFamily.com. We designed and built our tiny house and have lived here for almost four years while continuing to build our mortgage-free homestead. Our course has helped almost two [...]
Downsizing
Family of 3 Downsizes into 117 Sq. Ft. Tiny Home
In this video interview you’ll get to meet a family of three (husband, wife, and daughter) who have downsized to a 117 sq. ft. tiny home on wheels. They built it the house from scratch by hand in the mornings while later working nights. It took only 3 months to have it move in ready. [...]
Top 5 Tiny Houses You Can Probably Live In
With a new season of Tiny House Nation (season 2) just out I wanted to share these top 5 tiny houses that you might live in thanks to the FYI Network. Tiny House Nation helps families downsize their lives while they help design and build a new home for them of 500 sq. ft. or [...]
Man Building DIY Off Grid Tiny Home for Less Than $2k Part 2
This $2k tiny home story (part 2) is a guest post by Winston W. Johnson Here’s four more pictures of the progress on my $2k off grid tiny shelter. You can see the new heat shields and cathedral ceiling box that I built and painted with high temp black paint in the photos below. You can [...]
Andrew Morrison’s TED Talk on the Tiny House Movement
Andrew Morrison and his wife, Gabriella, live in a 207 sq. ft. modern tiny house on wheels that has an additional 110 sq. ft. in loft space. They not only live in it, but they also work out of it. It’s a tiny house design they created called hOMe. They live in it completely debt-free [...]
Woman Converts Backyard Garage into Studio
For Alex Kennedy, this tiny studio in her mother’s backyard garage is perfect for her needs. Plus she is able to have her own home without paying expensive property taxes somewhere else in Melbourne, Australia. Converting this old two-car garage in her childhood home back yard makes this space even more special. And how much [...]
Couple Live for 7 Years in Tiny House with No Electricity
In search of a more simple life and completeness, the couple, Michael and Diana lived in a 144 square foot tiny home in Northern California for seven years. They feel their house was not tiny but just right for them. The tiny house does not feel small as you will see below. The natural sunlight and surrounding trees [...]