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Family of 3 Downsizes into 117 Sq. Ft. Tiny Home

In this video interview you’ll get to meet a family of three (husband, wife, and daughter) who have downsized to a 117 sq. ft. tiny home on wheels. They built it the house from scratch by hand in the mornings while later working nights. It took only 3 months to have it move in ready. [...]

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Top 5 Tiny Houses You Can Probably Live In

With a new season of Tiny House Nation (season 2) just out I wanted to share these top 5 tiny houses that you might live in thanks to the FYI Network. Tiny House Nation helps families downsize their lives while they help design and build a new home for them of 500 sq. ft. or [...]

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Man Building DIY Off Grid Tiny Home for Less Than $2k Part 2

This $2k tiny home story (part 2) is a guest post by Winston W. Johnson Here’s four more pictures of the progress on my $2k off grid tiny shelter. You can see the new heat shields and cathedral ceiling box that I built and painted with high temp black paint in the photos below. You can [...]

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She built a 230-square-foot cabin in Hawaii in 2 months for $11k! (VIDEO)

This is the story of Kristie Wolfe and how she built her own 230-square-foot tiny cabin in Hawaii in the course of two months for only $11,000! This was after she had built her own 97-square-foot tiny house on wheels in Idaho for just $5,000. But she just couldn’t stop there. So after a few [...]

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Couple Build 704 Sq. Ft. Cabin That ‘Fits Like a Glove’

This is the story of a couple who decided instead of trying to find the home of their dreams, they would design and build the perfect cabin that would fit them like a glove! And that’s exactly what they did. At first, they considered going tiny, but they decided that it wouldn’t work out for [...]

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Woman Shares All After 6 Months Living in her Tiny House

Living in a Tiny House is All About… Seasonal Changes… Adaptive Living by Shirley Loomis Six months ago I moved into my tiny house.  It was the tail end of spring and the start of another New England summer. As fortune would have it, I was in rural Maine, out of the Boston rat race [...]

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1993 Ford School Bus Converted into DIY Motorhome Cabin

This couple took a 1993 Ford School Bus and converted it into their very own DIY motorhome cabin in only 3 months time. The conversion took a lot of hard work but now they have been living in the bus and traveling for more than four years. It has a diesel engine and the bus [...]

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