This is a Reader Submitted Guest Post – Share Your Downsizing Story Too This is my tiny blues cabin. I live in the Tennessee hill-country but my musical tastes are more in line with Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta country! It’s about 70 miles south of Nashville (which is a great place) and I’m a bluesman at [...]
Off-Grid Living
Two Classic Travel Trailer to Micro Cabin Conversions
These travel trailer to cabin conversions are for those of you who love the idea of tiny living but want to remain as mobile as possible. With a trailer renovation like this you can still move about since these units are aerodynamic and lighter in weight than stick built homes on trailers. And even if [...]
Off Grid Modern Solar Glass House in California
This off grid modern solar house in California isn’t tiny or even that small… But since it’s 100% off the grid I thought it was a smart enough design to include here. At 1200 sq. ft. it would make a great home for a family or person who spends lots of time at home. It’s [...]
Off Grid Solar Tiny Cabin with Yurt Guest House
I thought you’d also like this off grid solar tiny cabin this morning. And it even has a yurt nearby that functions as a little guest house for visitors. This is the off-grid homestead of Dan Timmerman who is a cyclocross racer. His teammate, Dan Chabanov, photographed the home which is in the Finger Lakes [...]
A DIY Micro Cabin in the Woods You Can Build
Guest Post by Derek “Deek” Diedricksen Aside from working on a custom tree house for a Boston-area client, Derek “Deek” Diedricksen of www.Relaxshacks.com has also been working on completing a ANOTHER BRAND NEW cabin for people to check out at his upcoming hands-on tiny house building and design workshop Nov. 15-17 in MA (you’ll see SEVEN [...]
Living Off the Grid, Solar Power and the Simple Life
Today, this post by Solar Baby was brought to my attention. While she and her husband do not live in a tiny house I would argue that they do live intentionally and having solar power is a big part of their identity. I love that she takes on the myths of solar power systems and [...]
Student Converts Old School Bus to Modern Mobile Cabin
Hank is an architect student who bought a bus for his final project. He was tired of doing projects that weren’t real. They were just on paper. Hank’s grandfather owns an 80-acre parcel of land in Wisconsin where they wanted to build a tiny cabin on the land. But because of building codes and zoning [...]