Tiny Cabins

By Laura M. LaVoie With the tiny house movement on the rise, it seems like more and more people- including couples and young families– are attempting to live smaller and smaller. In order to go smaller, many of us are downsizing with great abandon. For me and my partner to transition comfortably into our 120 [...]

Guest Post by Laura Lavoie Trust me, I never thought I would be the kind of person to downsize my life and move into a 120 square foot house.  I didn’t like to be outside. I didn’t like to get dirty.  I didn’t like to try adventurous things. A few years ago, something changed for [...]

This entire micro home including the deck is just 90 square feet. If you only include the interior, it measures just 50 square feet. This is just a bit beyond a tiny house, isn’t it? I’d definitely consider it ‘micro’. Good news is that in many areas this would just be a simple backyard shed [...]

This episode by Kirsten Dirksen reminds me how important it is to stay creative and open minded while finding solutions for your tiny house build. The owner of this tiny home on stilts found a unique solution to meet building codes for his project: it’s an observation tower. Fred Reid, owner (and airline exec), calls it [...]

Do you ever wonder what it’s like living in a tiny house?  The best way is to go rent one and spend a few nights in one. That’s why we have a tiny house vacations category. Go try one out if you’re serious about it. But another fun way to explore the idea of tiny [...]

Christopher and Merete from TINY: the Movie are in a new video with their tiny house and their story. It’s a 127 square foot house that they built on a trailer so that they can build a mortgage-free life for themselves without having to endure the consumer pressure of owning a larger home. Just the [...]