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 [...]
Off-Grid Living
112 square feet Off Grid Tiny House with Folding Porch Roof
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 [...]
Life in 120 Square Feet: Our Solar Power System
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” [...]
Life in 120 Square Feet: Our Off Grid Bathroom
You knew I’d end up here eventually. I am finally going to share some information about our tiny house bathroom. Just like every other aspect of tiny spaces, bathroom layouts can vary wildly. I wanted to share some of the decisions we made about our teeny bathroom so you might get an idea of what [...]
High Tech Self Sufficient Tiny Houses by Renzo Piano
It’s assuring to know that one of TIME’s top 100 most influential people in the world has planted his prints in the tiny house community. This man is an Italian prize winning architect by the name of Renzo Piano who has created his own high tech self sufficient tiny house prototype. He is known for [...]
Living Off Grid in a Tiny Cabin and Why We Did It
When we first decided we wanted to build our own house we were always interested in some type of alternative living situation. The reasons for this are varied and some are probably rather unexplainable. The best way to articulate it is that we wanted to prove to ourselves that we could live comfortably and inexpensively [...]
Life in 120 Square Feet: My Tiny House Kitchen
This past weekend, over at the Tiny House Talk Facebook page, Alex reposted my video tour of my tiny house with the question, “Could you cook in this kitchen?” While there were plenty of positive responses, there were also some questions and concerns about our kitchen I wanted to address right here on Tiny House [...]