Like so many parents, Laura and Matt were working too hard to try and keep up with their $2,000/month mortgage and all their other bills on the dream home they built. But unlike many people, they sold the home and bought and renovated a bus so they could travel and appreciate minimalism! They’ve been traveling [...]
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Single Mom’s Two Tiny Home Household in Australia
Amanda is a single mom of two girls (ages 8 and 2.5) on the Sunshine Coast of Australia who lives in not one but two tiny houses on wheels — one for the main living space and one split into separate bedrooms for each of her daughters. Built by Aussie Tiny Houses, the homes (168 [...]
How They Found Parking For Their Tiny Home…
The truth is, they didn’t have tiny house parking figured out before they started building because they just started building their tiny house on family land and figured it would all work out. And lucky for them, it worked out quite nicely! Once the word got out as to what they were doing, it came [...]
Irish Off-Grid Tiny Home Vacation
Yes, travel plans are still a bit uncertain with COVID-19, but you have to put this Irish off-grid tiny home vacation in the mountains on your bucket list! Nestled in a pine tree grove in the Wicklow Mountains, this tiny house is about a 45 minute drive from Dublin, but just 5 minutes from the [...]
They’re Building A Passive Solar Home: Here’s How It Works
This is the story of Derek and Hannah‘s passive solar design home that they are building in Arizona. It’s not a tiny house, it’s more of a small house, but you can also use the same principles when building your own tiny, small, or even large house. Anyway, before all of this, they started out [...]
One Wild Ride with Lexi & Tyler: From Traveling to Homesteading in their Bus Conversion
Meet Lexi & Tyler. They traveled the country in their converted school bus for about a year and a half before buying some land to settle down in the north part of Austin, Texas. Now the couple is living in their bus, saving to build a small home or yurt (I love yurts), and starting [...]
Jordana’s Straw bale and Cob Cabins in Oregon!
I love Jordana’s lifestyle because it shows that you can enjoy the benefits of alternative lifestyles without necessarily owning anything — not even a van! She and her fiance rent two fun off-grid structures: A straw bale cabin and a little cob cabin, each of which are about 220 square feet, in Southern Oregon. While [...]