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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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Andrew Morrison’s TED Talk on the Tiny House Movement

Andrew Morrison and his wife, Gabriella, live in a 207 sq. ft. modern tiny house on wheels that has an additional 110 sq. ft. in loft space. They not only live in it, but they also work out of it. It’s a tiny house design they created called hOMe. They live in it completely debt-free [...]

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