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Van Dwelling Couple Sell Everything to Travel Long-Term

This van dwelling story is a guest post by Mat and Danielle – share yours here! We’re Mat and Danielle – two Canadian, minimalist nomads who are exploring long-term travelling, house sitting, and living/working in our 2002, Ford E-150 conversion van. We’re sharing our ongoing lifestyle experiments on YouTube and on our blog: Exploring Alternatives. [...]

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Tiny Houses Built Atop Classic Farm Trucks in Australia

These are tiny houses built atop classic farm trucks in Australia. They’re some of the most amazing house trucks I’ve ever seen. Rob Scott, of Hollyburton Park, has been building studios on the back of old farm trucks over the past few years. The housetrucks offer the extra space you might want to use as a [...]

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Log Siding Tiny House on Wheels For Sale in New York

This is a log siding tiny house on wheels for sale in New York. The buy it now price is $25,000. You can learn more about this tiny cabin on wheels in this post when we originally featured it on Tiny House Talk a few years back. When you step inside this custom built tiny [...]

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Man’s Simple Nomadic Life in a Custom House Truck

This is John’s custom built tiny house truck. It’s 8′ wide, 23′ long and weighs about 6 tons. And right now we get to tour it thanks to our friends at Tiny House Giant Journey. When they were driving down the highway with their tiny home in tow they spotted it at a gas station and raced to go see [...]

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Man Builds Cozy and Sustainable Tiny Home Made of Earth

Nestled within nature in Northern Arizona is this sustainable tiny home made of Earth owned and built by Cody Lundin. You may recognize him from various television interviews and magazines. As a professional survivalist for over 25 years, Cody built his own self-reliant earth house which, by the way, is completely off the grid. One of the [...]

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Rhino Cubed Nola Shipping Container Tiny House

This 160 sq. ft. shipping container tiny house is built by Rhino Cubed. “Rhino Cubed is a Colorado based company building artistic tiny homes from shipping containers. A shipping container is a perfect building envelope: structurally sound, water tight, and quasi-portable. Creative artistry and design turn them into unique living structures.” – Rhino Cubed.  They [...]

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Young Couple’s DIY School Bus Cottage on Wheels

I’d like you to meet Julie and Andrew, a young couple who transformed an old school bus into their very own mortgage-free cottage on wheels. Since the both of them love to travel and did not want a home with a 30-year mortgage they decided to go tiny. So for only $10,000 they bought this partially-converted school bus [...]

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