This is the story of how backyard tiny houses are helping to solve California’s housing problem, specifically in Clovis city where city planners have made it easier for homeowners to build a backyard tiny cottage on their current lot. Here’s how it works… They are giving homeowners three house plans to choose from (for free). [...]
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People Want More Tiny Homes
According to a recent article on CNN, “demand for tiny homes is getting bigger”. More than half of Americans would consider living in a home that’s less than 600 square feet, according to a survey done by the National Association of Home Builders. And among Millennials, interest increases to 63%. Please enjoy, learn more, and re-share [...]
Self-driving tiny homes could be part of the future
Honda recently announced the IeMobi Concept. It is an autonomous mobile living room that attaches and detaches from your home. When parked, the vehicle becomes a 50-square-foot living or workspace.2 Images via Honda Images via Honda For the near-future society where everything is connected digitally, Honda will provide a modes of warm, face-to-face “connection.” The Honda [...]
Marshfield Fairgrounds to host Big Mass Tiny House Festival
Over the last weekend in September, the Marshfield Fairgrounds will play host to a big event of small proportions: the Big Mass Tiny House Festival. Bringing together two dozen tiny houses, vintage campers, school bus conversions, gypsy wagons and other types of miniature dwellings, the event is a collaboration between Arlington-based non-profit Miranda’s Hearth and [...]
If Ikea can flat-pack its furniture, why not a tiny house?
If you thought assembling a bed from Ikea was a headache-inducing experience, imagine being tasked to build a whole (if tiny) house for pennies on the dollar. That was the assignment tasked to two Danish architecture students who were challenged by Ikea to create an adaptable living structure that would use as few materials as [...]
Builder offers to pay you to put tiny homes on your land
ESCAPE is a tiny house builder that is currently offering to pay you to put tiny homes on your land as a business partnership. We are distributing free ESCAPE rental units to selected Partners across America within 100 miles of the Top 50 metro areas in the US + other high traffic destinations. We already [...]
Here’s what living in a tiny house is really like
Ever wonder what living in a tiny house is really like? Business Insider just went after that very question to find out. Tiny houses are painted as a minimalist utopia — and while many tiny home dwellers love the lifestyle that brings, it doesn’t come without a few challenges. Tiny houses have their perks — [...]