Off-Grid Living

This 400 sq. ft. solar off-grid small house design was submitted as part of LaMar’s off grid tiny house design contest where you can win up to $500 for submitting your own design. But this 16′ x 25′ small home is designed to be a spacious, space saving, creative tiny home that’s fun to live in and share with others if you [...]

I’m excited about building up a list of up and coming as well as current tiny house communities and in this post I’m introducing you to the 333 acre Sacred Mountain Sanctuary Eco Village which is in Candler, North Carolina. It’s near Asheville (about 25 minute drive away) and it is a new permaculture eco [...]

This 192 sq. ft. off-grid tiny cabin design was submitted as part of Lamar’s off grid tiny house design contest where you can win up to $500. But this 12′ x 16′ tiny house is designed to be built using 2×6 construction to add extra insulation because the home will be heated with solar power. There will be [...]

I just ran into these tiny house folks in Sydney, Australia I thought you might want to know about. They started planning their project in January of 2013 and began building in June 2013 (almost a year ago as I write this). And their tiny house is only costing them about $15,000 which they can [...]

This Cargo Trailer Converted to Homey, Cozy, Off-Grid RV is a guest post by Elizabeth Kelch One trend in the tiny living movement is converted cargo trailers. The advantages to this are; they’re lighter weight, more easily mobile, and can often be used for free by ‘stealth camping’. I recently got the guts to take [...]

In this post, you’re going to see how this man created an automated micro-farming solution where anyone can grow their own food. If you’re a busy person or are just limited on space and still want to enjoy the benefits of gardening this might be something you’ll like, right? Imagine having a system in place [...]