Off-Grid Living

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s an off grid micro cabin I just had to show you. It’s too small for full-time living unless you’re going with the bare minimum. I think it’s a great way to try out the simple life while on vacation. Way more of an experience than a hotel if you ask me. So let me [...]

This is Yahini Homes smallest home ever built and it’s a 112 square feet tiny house on a trailer. It’s 8′ x 14′ and meant to be off the grid with solar battery power and a rainwater collection system. For heat the owner is planning on using a simple wood stove and since it’s well [...]

So throughout this tour of my tiny house I have described how we live “off the grid” but I haven’t really described exactly how we do that. So, for the penultimate installment of the series, I present to you what it really means for us to live off the grid. There are two main “systems” [...]