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 [...]
Tiny House Construction
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 [...]
Tiny House on an Army Truck?
When you ask people when tiny houses were invented you get all sorts of answers. And it’s true that they’ve been around for a long, long time. We all know it can be safe to say that humans started out with tiny homes as shelters. So what we’re really doing is going back to the [...]
Teen Finishes his own Mortgage-free Tiny House at Age 17
Over the years we’ve all been watching as Austin Hay began building his own mortgage-free tiny house. He started when he was a freshman in high school when he was just 15 years old. Austin had only taken one woodworking class before. Besides that, he had watched his dad build a home so he really [...]