Acquiring and preparing a trailer for your future tiny house can be stressful and costly but it’s one of the most important parts of your tiny house if you’re building mobile because it’s your foundation. For most people, the trailer is actually the single most expensive item that you’ll buy for your tiny home. And [...]
Tiny House Construction
How to Choose the Right Siding for Your Tiny House
In this post I’m going to show you how to pick the right siding for your tiny house because when most people think about tiny houses they focus almost entirely on the interior finish of the house. It’s easy to think of all the ways you would decorate your tiny house. I had many plans [...]
Tiny House Motivation: Put Down the Books and Pick Up That Hammer
Over at the Tiny Life, new contributor Marie made a great post about what she calls “Procrastiprepping.” This is the idea that you can stall your work by convincing yourself that you are doing work preparing for the actual work. “While waiting for the trailer, then the welding on the trailer, Alan was purchasing used [...]
6 Ways to Build Framing for Tiny Houses
In last week’s article on passive solar design for tiny houses I briefly mentioned advanced framing and SIPs—two alternatives to conventional 2×4 stud framing. Well, it turns out there are a lot of alternative framing systems out there. Why would you use one of them to build your tiny house? In a lot of ways, [...]
Tiny Houses to House Workers in Oil Fields?
Not long ago I showed you what Stew MacInnes has created to fill a better need for workers. He calls them tiny houses on steroids because they can withstand extreme conditions. So this is Maximus Extreme Living Solutions’ second tiny home project. These homes are a better solution for workers, let’s say in oil fields, [...]
Tiny Solar House: Minnesota Renewable Energy Society
This tiny solar house was designed and built by the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society. I found them on Facebook not long ago and wanted to share their tiny home with you because it has three Silicon Energy PV modules, solar air heat, and even solar hot water. The SIP (Structural Insulated Panels) came from The [...]
Sneak Peek & Review of Updated Tiny House Guide Now Available in Softcover
Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders just released an updated version of his book Tiny House Design & Construction Guide. The book has almost doubled in length at 143 pages and it boasts over 100 color photos and illustrations to guide you along the way. It covers just about everything you can think of when [...]
