If you’re a regular visitor here to Tiny House Talk, you’re most likely already familiar with Deek. He builds micro homes in his backyard most of the time for $200 or less. Most recently he shows us how to make our own stained glass windows for a $1 or less. Recently he held a sold [...]
Interviews
Designer Turns Rundown 500-square-foot Apartment into Luxurious Home
Article by Laura LaVoie Off Beat Spaces shows how designer James Hong took a 500 square foot New York aparatment from rundown to luxury by repurposing items and reimagining spaces. This video shows in only a couple of minutes what one designer could do to create an amazingly modern space while staying within what he [...]
Tracy Metro’s 560 Square Foot Small Houseboat Tour
Meet Tracy Metro and her lush 560 square foot houseboat that she and her husband live in full-time. She’s the designer on I Live With My Mom and she calls her small houseboat the Metro Retro. Tracy and her husband bought the boat and it had a challenging layout, so she completely changed it up [...]
How Would You Like Living in this 25′ High Treehouse
Meet Barron Harrington. He’s a retired man who decided to build a treehouse 25 feet into the air in his backyard. He wanted to do it without injuring the tree and with a small footprint. So he went with a simple 8′ by 10′ design. You can see a sketch of the floor plan below. [...]
Hobbit Hole Tiny Homes for Your Backyard
Meet Rocky and Melissa. They live in Maine and have been building what I like to call Hobbit Hole Tiny Homes. Their micro structures can serve a variety of purposes. Originally they were intended to be for children so they were in the playhouse business. Recently they’ve decided to broaden their market when they realized [...]
Mother Builds $4k Shipping Container Home and Tiny House on Wheels
This post is based on a video created by Kirsten Dirksen of Faircompanies.com about a woman living in a shipping container and a tiny home on wheels with her family. A friend suggested she build something after being forced out of her last home where she was renting. After that she was able to attain [...]
Tiny House Legalized as Observation Tower
This episode by Kirsten Dirksen reminds me how important it is to stay creative and open minded while finding solutions for your tiny house build. The owner of this tiny home on stilts found a unique solution to meet building codes for his project: it’s an observation tower. Fred Reid, owner (and airline exec), calls it [...]
