Sarah Hasting’s is a senior at Mount Holyoke College and she’s building tiny house on wheels using a 5th wheel trailer on a parking lot at school. That’s why I call it a 5th wheel tiny house. Sarah is an architecture major and this is part of her senior project. Pretty awesome, isn’t it? And she decided to build her [...]
Tiny House Construction
$3k Tiny House Plans by Pin Up Houses
Pin Up Houses is a relatively new tiny house plans company founded by architect Joshua Woodsman. He’s creating easy to follow tiny house plans that you can use to build your own tiny cabin or micro lodge. Joshua built the 107 sq. ft. tiny cabin you see here for only $3,000 in materials!1 It’s called [...]
431 Sq. Ft. Cottage by The Wee House Company
This 431 sq. ft. cottage is designed and built by The Wee House Company which designs and builds tiny and small homes throughout the United Kingdom. All of their homes are built in-house then delivered and installed on your property which can take around two weeks. Inside you’ll find a mud room, living room, full [...]
Teens Developing Eco-Village for Seattle’s Homeless
A group of local teens in Seattle are developing an eco-village called The Impossible City to benefit the local homeless people in the area. They’ve even put together an Indiegogo fundraising campaign that has so far raised a total of $27,744 as I write this. With the campaign scheduled to close on April 26, 2015, [...]
Woman’s DIY Humanure Composting Toilet Project
If you’re thinking about getting a composting toilet for your tiny house (or any size house, really) then read this first. You can always check out the top 5 composting toilets we recommend for tiny houses. But sometimes nothing beats doing it yourself. It’s cheaper, it’s more rewarding, and you’ll appreciate it more because you [...]
Steve Gourley’s 8×12 Tiny House Design
Steve Gourley is sharing his 8×12 tiny house design with us as part of our 2015 8×12 tiny house design contest. I’ll let Steve explain his design with you. Dear Alex and Derek, First let me thanks you both for being a positive force in the Tiny House world. I am currently building a 8×12 Tiny House on a [...]
How to Build a $700 Micro Camper
If you love camping and getting back into nature whenever possible, this DIY micro camper might be the project you’ve been looking for. And you can build it for only $700! It functions a lot like a teardrop camper since it’s a micro travel trailer that you can build on a small utility trailer. Since it’s [...]