Simple Living

This is Lily’s 150 sq. ft. tiny house on wheels in New Zealand. From the outside, you’ll notice it’s a gable-roofed home on wheels with dark clapboards, a beautiful metal roof and stained-glass front door. When you go inside, you’ll find a book lover’s dream, with an entire wall of built-in shelves overflowing with books [...]

If you’ve ever been interested in reducing the amount of waste you create, there’s a lot to learn from this woman’s zero-waste lifestyle thanks to Exploring Alternatives. Mailyne is a single mom who’s passionate about reducing, refusing, reusing, recycling and rotting. She has all of the garbage she has created in the past year in one [...]

This is a family of 5 living tiny in a 1 bedroom apartment. They moved out of their two-bedroom condo in the suburbs into this 600 square foot, 1 bedroom apartment because it’s closer to work and closer to their son’s autism treatments. Now, dad can bike to and from work and mom can take [...]

Wonder what family life in a tiny home looks like? Check out this family’s wonderful and whimsical tiny house built by Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses. The roof line resembles a wave and swoops over dormers on either end of the house. Half-circle windows follow the contour and allow in natural light. The metal roofing has [...]

This is the story of one family of four’s off-the-grid homestead in Pittsboro, North Carolina, including three twelve-by-twelve tiny cabins with no electricity and plumbing. On the outside, the three cabins share the same rustic feel. One is thin but has a tall, “long” roof over a smaller patio area. You’ll find beautiful cabinets and [...]

This is a tiny cabin a man built with just 1,000 euros using free open source plans he found online. Outside, you’ll notice the house is shaped like the hull of a boat. The roof/walls of the home are wood-paneled on the inside, with a layer of sheep’s wool for insulation and then a layer [...]