This 77 sq. ft. modern micro compact home is designed by Horden Cherry Lee Architects and is available through the Micro Compact Home brand. Interestingly, the design inspiration comes from the Smart Car and Japanese Tea Houses. This tiny home is designed for one person (although I’m sure you can sleep two). But they’re also designed to become stackable to develop communities if [...]
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Young Lady’s The Lucky Penny Tiny Home
Lina and her cat, Raffi, are used to tiny dwellings, so they thoroughly enjoy this cozy Vardo-inspired Lucky Penny tiny house in Portland, Oregon, that Lina designed and helped build herself. The tiny home is a whopping 100.3 square feet, 14 1/2 feet long, 8 feet wide, 10 1/2 feet high. The “lucky penny” nickname comes from [...]
Couple’s Portable Tiny House + Micro Office
Just hitch your portable tiny house to your vehicle and tow it anywhere you want to go! It’s even registered as an RV, which has its pros and cons. Of course, the major advantage to a “mobile” home like this is that you can travel and have a place to stay. However, because of its [...]
Man Builds Tiny House for Homeless Mother Sleeping in Dirt
This is an inspiring story about an ordinary man who builds a tiny house for a homeless mother, Irene McGee, who’d been sleeping outside on the dirt. It’s a micro house built with love for someone who was obviously in desperate need of a miracle. And this man was that miracle worker. He decided he would build [...]
$3k Tiny House Plans by Pin Up Houses
Pin Up Houses is a relatively new tiny house plans company founded by architect Joshua Woodsman. He’s creating easy to follow tiny house plans that you can use to build your own tiny cabin or micro lodge. Joshua built the 107 sq. ft. tiny cabin you see here for only $3,000 in materials!1 It’s called [...]
Teens Developing Eco-Village for Seattle’s Homeless
A group of local teens in Seattle are developing an eco-village called The Impossible City to benefit the local homeless people in the area. They’ve even put together an Indiegogo fundraising campaign that has so far raised a total of $27,744 as I write this. With the campaign scheduled to close on April 26, 2015, [...]
DIY Micro Caboose Camper: The Loose Caboose
This is a DIY micro caboose camper that one our readers, Glenn Wallin Sr, built for himself. Thanks so much for sharing your project with us, Glenn! If you’d like to share yours, submit it to us here. Inside you’ll find a full bed, air conditioning, kitchenette with 3-burner stove, pressure water and sink, port-a-potty, [...]