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Tiny Houses Aren’t Right For Everyone: And They Shouldn’t Be

Tiny House Blogger Ryan Mitchell recently posted an anti-tiny house article that appeared elsewhere on the World Wide Web. His post specifically showcased the not only negative but often ignorant comments from that original article. He made the deliberate choice not to link to the original article, which was written with a tone of superiority [...]

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Light Pours into Tiny House

How Tiny Houses Give You More Time for Relationships & Giving

So, how are you doing with your holiday intentions? Have you set clear intentions? Have you written a wish list? Have you communicated your wishes with your family?  Have you created new rituals? Celebrated traditions? Read my first, second and third posts about how we created a meaningful celebration in our tiny house. *** We just completed [...]

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A-frame Tiny House in the Woods

Top 6 A-Frame Tiny Houses

I’m not sure about you but I’ve always had this attraction to A-frame houses. I’m not sure if that’s because my name starts with an A (Alex) but I think it’s also because they’re so rare to see and unique in comparison to most other homes. As a kid, I always was liked seeing an [...]

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rituals

How Simple Living Helped this Tiny House Family Truly Enjoy the Holidays

This is the third installment in my series, “How We Created a Delightful Christmas in our Tiny House.” See my first and second posts for the first five ideas. The holidays sneak up and fly by when we keep a frenzied pace of checking off lists and rushing around for the big day. Growing up, [...]

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Laura LaVoie's Off Grid Tumbleweed Tiny Cabin

Building & Living in an Off Grid Tiny Cabin Interview With Laura LaVoie

I got to interview Laura LaVoie of 120SquareFeet.com and feature her as one of our guests on here by transcribing the interview as well. Laura lives with her husband Matt in an off-grid tiny cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. They use a composting toilet and a really unique showering system. They built their [...]

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Jane's Tiny House Under Construction

Tiny House Travels: Chronicling Life Aboard

Guest Post by Jane Dwinell Designing and Building Your Tiny House 11/13/12 Well, we did it! We built our tiny house and have been living in it for 5 weeks (half of that time it was still under construction — not recommended…). I’ve been thinking about our experience and what we learned — and here [...]

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LaMar's 8x8 Tiny House Design

LaMar’s 8×8 Tiny House Design

Last month we had an 8×8 tiny house design contest and we received so many incredible submissions: Remi’s Design Hunter’s Design Kevin’s Design Jordan’s Design Mary’s Design Anthony’s Design And my friend LaMar also submitted his own design which is awesome. It was just a little bit late so we didn’t get to include it [...]

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