This is the story of the Quietude Prefab Cabin. It’s the story of Denise Franklin and her healing place. After going through a major illness and doctors telling her she only had six months left to live… It’s been more than twenty years, she had left her house, and husband, and was now in search [...]
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The Tiny House Profile: What Makes a Person Build Small?
I had the opportunity to speak with Alex from right here at Tiny House Talk the other day. We had a great conversation and he asked a lot of great questions. Some of the things he asked got me thinking about where this all started and just exactly how we got to a point in [...]
From Raggedy School Bus to Cabin on Wheels
Today lots of people are looking for alternative ways to live without mortgages and it turns out that there are several ways to do it. Tiny houses on trailers aren’t the only way to go. And with enough labor and the right materials you can create a very lovely home. The folks at WPICreative took [...]
Simple Tiny House for Less Than $10,000
I just ran into this bunkhouse tiny house and thought I’d share it with you. The owner of the little cabin, Sue, runs a blog called A Porch of My Own hence the name of this post. She had the shell of the cabin built by a company that delivered it right to her property [...]
Tiny House on or off Wheels as a Writing Cabin?
Most of us or at least I think most of us want a tiny house to live in full-time so we can live life on our own terms. At least that’s why I was motivated to initially look into little homes.. How about you? And I was able to achieve a lot of the same [...]
Small Rustic Cabin: Materials Reclaimed from 100-year-old Barn
This small rustic cabin was recently featured on NY Magazine and Apartment Therapy. The materials used were reclaimed from a barn that’s over 100 years old. It really doesn’t get much simpler than this. There’s an outhouse with a composting toilet and an outdoor water heater in case you want a warm shower. When the [...]
How to Build your own Rustic Lantern Hanger
This video based post is going to show you how to build your own rustic lantern hanger that you can use in your tiny house, cabin, or current home. Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen of RelaxShacks.com is going to show how he did it for just $2.00 using recycled materials, some creativeness, and a little bit of [...]
