Interviews

Meet Alysha, her kids, and their tiny house in Red Bluff, California. It was built with the help of the Oregon Cottage Company. She decided to move she and her kids into a tiny home after her husband passed away tragically and unexpectedly in his early 30s after serving in the United States Air Force. [...]

This is a car-free eco-village in Los Angeles, California. This post is thanks to Johnny Sanphillippo and Faircompanies. The community is unique because it’s about 3 miles west of downtown Los Angeles and all residents are car-free (their main source of transportation are bicycles). Even better, the Los Angeles Ecovillage residents have created a bicycle [...]

Some of you might remember Tiny: A Story About Living Small. It’s a tiny house documentary created years ago by Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller. I posted on it a while back (and even more later- see below) and some of you even helped raise money for them on their Kickstarter fundraiser. Their Story Featured on MSN Tiny: [...]

I just found out about this new tiny housing documentary called Microtopia thanks to Derek Markham at Treehugger and wanted to tell you about. It’s a documentary with a different style than we’re used to in the tiny house world in my opinion but it focuses on the fact that most of us live in homes that are [...]

Meet Anderson Page. He’s an environmental studies graduate at Northeastern University. He’s also the designer and builder of the tiny house you’re about to see in this post. Page designed and built this tiny home for his undergrad thesis project because it falls in line with his passion for better housing. Student Creates Tiny House Documentary I encourage you [...]

I wanted to share this wonderful look at Burt’s Buzz, a documentary about Burt Shavitz, the co-founder and face of Burt’s Bees. The film explores his down-to-earth personality and his love for living simply — often in small cabins and tiny houses surrounded by nature. Even after helping build one of the most recognizable natural [...]