Small Houses

Christine Plum (@plum_construction) sold her Houston home and put all her equity into buying a small home in Galveston, Texas and fixing it up. She did all the work herself, and turned it into a vacation rental she later sold. But after remodeling, she got into designing and building homes from the ground up! She’s [...]

This is the Smitten, a tiny-ish cabin in Rock Hollow at the Appleton Retreat, the same property where you can also find this beautiful tiny tree house built 20-ft. in the air that we featured recently. SMITTEN is a off grid, beautifully constructed western red cedar cabin. A gorgeous bathroom features a cast iron clawfoot [...]

Chris and Cathy chose early retirement in this 400-square-foot park model built by IdeaBox in Oregon. The clean, modern design features an open floor plan with large windows throughout, a full bathroom with flush toilet, and outdoor living space including a separate “bunkie” guest room. The couple splits time between this Southern California home and [...]

This is the story of Scott’s 400-sq.-ft. whimsical treehouse named Sir Cedric that he built he built in his backyard as his passion project. And best of all, he built it with mostly reclaimed materials. The even better part? You can actually stay here and experience the place yourself! Does it get better? Yes, because [...]

This is a two bedroom tiny house on wheels. More specifically, it’s a two bed, two bath mobile home built like a cabin by Escape. The home is parked on lot number six at the Escape Tampa Bay Tiny House Village and features a large rear deck accessible via glass slider. The Escape Space CLASSIC [...]

While this family isn’t living anywhere close to “tiny” in their 1,500 square foot home, they intentionally purchased a small home (did you know the average size of new homes in the US is 2,687 square feet?) after looking at many large opulent homes and being inspired to live more simply by Marie Kondo. I [...]