Have you seen Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen’s 8′ x 8′ x 8′ 64-square-foot tiny house slash micro cabin? It’s made mostly out of plywood and if you’ve read his book, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, you’ve seen pictures of it already. They built it in Brooklyn, New York inside the old warehouse workshop you can see below. [...]
Micro Houses
Jay Nelson and micro houses he’s built on bikes, rowboats, and cars
Kirsten is going to show you Jay Nelson’s micro house that he built on a customized bicycle. It’s 27 square feet in size and has everything a surfer needs. It even has a roof rack to store and move around your boards! Jay’s micro vehicle/bicycle home is made out of plywood sheets covered in fiberglass. [...]
Glam Pod is England’s Backyard Tiny House
Say hello to the Glam Pod over in England. They made it for people who need a home, but are not yet ready for a large one. So for now, they can put the Glam Pod in their parents or friend’s backyard. It takes 8 to 10 weeks to build and is delivered on a [...]
How to build your own ultra-lightweight Micro Camper Teardrop Trailer
One of our readers, Jean-René Rodrigue, wanted to share his homemade micro camper with you. It’s a custom built teardrop trailer designed to be 8′ in length, 5′ in width, and 5′ in height on the interior. Outside it’s length is actually 11′ 8″ and it’s overall height is 6′ 6″. It weighs an estimated [...]
How to Build a Lightweight, Homemade Camping Trailer with Pop Up Roof
I wanted to show you Big Al’s homemade camping trailer. He has nicknamed it ALVAN the camper caravan. It’s a pretty simple structure on a 8′ x 4′ trailer chasis that he ordered on eazytrailer.com.au. Once he put that together he set up a foundation right on the trailer and began framing the walls. Then [...]
SignaTour Campers Teardrop Trailers and Micro RVs
Some of you might already be familiar with SignaTour Campers, a small company who builds teardrop trailers in Tampa, Florida, from last year when we featured them on Tiny House Talk. Since then they have added to their fleet of micro RVs to choose from and in this post, you’ll get a brief overview of [...]
A DIY Tent Trailer You Can Build For Camping
The Explorer Boxes are a hybrid of teardrop trailers and easy-to-set-up tent campers. Designed and developed by Compact Camping Concepts, LLC, they’re campers that you can easily build yourself. The company has developed an 85-page set of building plans so that you can build your own tent trailer. They’re small in size and lightweight so [...]