Tiny Cabins

Kevin, from Cozy Home Plans, sent me pictures of his upcoming tiny house design with a balcony. The design hasn’t been released yet, but we know it has the following features: an upstairs and downstairs to separate the living space an upstairs balcony you can set up another outdoor area underneath the balcony cathedral ceilings [...]

Mark shared these pictures with me on Facebook of a tiny log cabin he just stayed in with his friends. They built it during the 90’s, I believe, on the weekends until it was completed. And they’re all still enjoying it to this day. Tools required and recommended for log construction: Mortiser Planer Beam saw [...]

Deek just published a video tour that his brother, Dustin, shot of the Bolt Together House. According to Deek, in 1972 this small house design was featured in Family Circle Magazine. I recognized it from Lester Walker’s book, The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses which was published in 1993. Apparently, more than 25,000 people purchased [...]

If you’re interested in living in the mountains, there is a lot of opportunity from Boulder to Granby to Winter Park and everywhere in between. If, however, you want to scale down your square footage as well as your carbon footprint, a tiny house might be the right fit. It’s all about planning, so break [...]

This simple, Japanese-inspired tiny house can also be described as a zen cabin in the woods. I’ve always wanted to use that word in the description of one of the featured homes, shacks, cabins, or retreats here. Looking back, I’d have to say that the tree-house/mushroom/dome cabin I featured a while back was also kind [...]

I’ve been exchanging emails with a gentleman named Andy in the North West about his tiny house with a balcony. You can also consider it a “cabin”… It’s really compact but has everything I would need to be more than satisfied. He sent me photos and I wanted to share them with you guys since [...]