Tiny Cabins

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 [...]

This small studio cabin is a vacation rental in Joshua Tree, California. The owners named it Luna Mesa and you’ll get the complete house tour right here. The home has panoramic views of the Joshua Tree Mountains. Here you’re literally inside the Joshua Tree National Park so you can find campgrounds, trails, and Skull Rock, [...]

You probably have never heard of the Mulfinger tiny house before. It’s one of Jay Shafer’s old Tumbleweed tiny house designs, but it’s no longer available. The design is simple and elegant, like all of Jay’s work. You are greeted with a porch and everything is perfectly symmetrical. Since this home is not on a [...]

I hope you’re looking for something unusual today because this tiny house isn’t normal. And with this unique shelter comes an interesting story. Loren Amelang purchased land in California in the 1970s. Later in his life, he decided to move into the property full time because he was tired of the corporate world. The old [...]