Small Houses

This is a stunning Carnelian Bay A-frame Vacation Cabin where you can vacation! Tucked beneath gorgeous pines, this charming tiny house sleeps 6 with one bedroom and a loft. It’s minutes to Lake Tahoe, close to multiple beaches and places to ski and has a washer and dryer for all those wet clothes. Want to [...]

This is the “Azure” Lumbec Coach House Kit, a new 3-D design of a “small house” I’d love to live in. The home is great for anyone who doesn’t like lofts and would like the 640 sq. ft. of living space. Because it’s a kit you get all the “pieces” and can still DIY the build, [...]

This is Taylor & Steph’s Incredible 560 Sq. Ft. Earthship Home in the mountains of Santa Cruz, California. The couple built their home out of recycled materials in a way that’s sustainable and good for the environment. They had no construction skills, lived off-grid for a long time and managed to do it with less than $10,000. [...]

This is the story of how this 850 sq. ft. modern cabin in the forest came to be. Maricela Salas and Mary McGoff admit they were “naive” about buying raw land before making their purchase of a hillside lot in the Berkshires. It turned out to be too steep and rocky for a traditional foundation. To [...]

This is Ralph’s Under-$20K Small Home he built back in 2007. Ralph doesn’t live here anymore, but worked hard to create this wonderful, inexpensive house. In the end, it came in at 960 sq. ft. — definitely more “small” than tiny — and is a great inspiration to us all. Don’t miss other amazing tiny [...]

This is Julio Garcia’s shipping container cabin in Savannah, Georgia. According to Faircompanies, he spent a decade designing plans for shipping container homes before building this. Garcia used salvaged materials for nearly everything, “you could put up a structure like this for about 50K,” he says.1 Salvaged Shipping Container Cabin in Savannah Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QNPB9naZQg Highlights Designed by [...]