Small Houses

If you ever get a chance to go to Scotland, you most definitely should take it — and you could even stay in this lovely little off-grid cottage perched high on a hill with breathtaking views. The one-bedroom cottage has a dine-in kitchen and cozy living room with floor-to-ceiling windows that let you take in [...]

This is the story of Neu Community, an up-and-coming prefabricated housing development in the Austin, Texas area. With thousands moving to the area and the Tesla giga-factory as an example hiring 20,000 people, communities like this are desperately needed in this area not to mention other areas with housing shortages and affordability issues too. What [...]

This beautiful one-bedroom, one-bath tiny house has been fully inspected and passed all regulations to exist as a backyard addition in North Carolina, but it’s ready for a new home! It features a spacious great room with a dining, kitchen, and closed-off bathroom. There’s a separate ground-floor living room that’s absolutely lovely, and just wait [...]

Nan got in touch with us to show off her awesome 20×24 storage building that she was able to transform into a tiny house rental with the help of a family friend “jack of all trades.” She said the majority of the $50K spent on the conversion went to installing a new water system and [...]

George Dunnett, a 28-year-old video editor from Scotland, spent 11 months transforming an abandoned 1700s stone cottage in his village into a modern 400-square-foot home. The building had been used to store religious books centuries ago and had deteriorated into a crumbling storage unit with no plumbing, electricity, or insulation. George purchased it and documented [...]

Here’s another new small home design by Small House Catalog called “Cedrus.” It gives you about twice the living space of even your largest tiny home, but keeps everything on one floor for accessibility. There are two bedrooms — one larger, one smaller — with two adjacent bathrooms. The other half of the L-shaped home [...]