Tiny Cabins

When Linda and her husband wanted a place to stay separate from their kids while visiting family in Kentucky, they faced a common problem: how do you maintain independence without booking expensive hotels for extended stays? Their solution exemplifies the resourcefulness at the heart of the tiny house movement. They purchased a 12×40 shed shell [...]

Musician Mary relocated from the Bay Area to a tiny house community in Arizona where she invested and built a 500-square-foot bungalow designed around her grand piano. The instrument, which she had paid to move from apartment to apartment for years, became the centerpiece of the home’s layout. Since the community offers communal cooking and [...]

As always, treehouses—and homes with unusual shapes—hold a special place in my heart. This TreehouseTopia Airbnb is the best of both worlds, suspending a two-story Yurt-like structure amid the trees of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The levels aren’t divided by typical flooring, however. Instead, a taught cargo net acts as an extra lounge space around the bed! [...]

This is one super cute little 107 sq. ft. cabin tucked into the towering trees of Fernwood Hills in Ontario. About half of the wall space in the cabin is windows, allowing for tons of refreshing, natural light. It began as just a daytime retreat where people come to be alone with their thoughts or [...]

Explore Jesse’s teen-built off-grid cabin that has evolved into a full homestead with screen house, sauna, and outdoor pizza oven. A inspiring example of starting small and expanding over time.

Have you seen WWII Quonset Huts before? I wasn’t familiar with them until today! They were used during WWII to house troops or as agricultural buildings, but when the war was over, the goverment sold them to the public. This one in Southern Illinois is in a college town and sits on 1/4 acre. It [...]