Meet Trysh and Saul Martinez and their self-built $25,000 THOW. If you just showed me pictures of the home and had me guess how much it cost, I would have easily said somewhere between $70k-$90k. Somehow using mostly reclaimed materials and Craigslist finds, the couple managed to build a tremendous tiny house without taking on [...]
Simple Living
Aspire: Bohemian One-Floor Vacation at Tiny Camp
If you’re looking for a more Bohemian/Modern spot to stay at Tiny Camp in Sedona, Arizona, their Aspire model might be the perfect choice. Not only does it have a tremendous wall of windows to let in light, there’s a cool pull-out queen bed on the main floor so you don’t need to climb any [...]
12×16 Shed Turned Tiny House: Part-Time Tiny Living in Alaska
We’ve seen a lot of people build tiny homes as rental units, but in this case Rodney and his wife rent their larger home and live tiny during the summer! It all started some years back, when Rodney needed a spot to store his stuff after life took an unexpected turn. Some friends offered a [...]
He Rebuilt This Civil-War-Era Cabin Log By Log
You know what they say, “One man’s trash….” For John, what his neighbor saw as an old dump deserving of being burned to the ground, he saw as a restoration project! John spent 15 years building his own home, so he had the skills necessary to head over and take the old cabin down log [...]
They Built Their Kids Their Own Earthbag Tiny Homes/Big Bedrooms
Well this is one inspirational family! After their mother got sick, she ended up turning to natural methods and clean eating to help her body heal. This took the family on a journey from city life to homesteading in the country. Part of their homesteading adventure included building alternative, inexpensive dwellings so they could live [...]
Farm Life in An Industrial Off-Grid Shipping Container Home
Jennifer purchased 42 acres on the Fleurieu Peninsula in Australia back in 2016. At the time it was a complete blank slate, and she’s added paddocks, a rainwater catchment system, a solar array, a vegetable garden, trees and her amazing industrial shipping container home! She even went so far as to get her home and [...]
Roman & Ioana Travel Europe in Their 1990 VW Van
These days Roman and Ioana use their 1990 VW Van for weekend trips around their home country of Switzerland, but they previously used the van — named Leni — for a full year of travel around Europe. One of the coolest features of this van is the back bathroom. It’s accessible by the garage doors [...]