The fact that Cameron’s DIY container home sits over a stream is just the first of many unique features in this 125 square foot shipping container turned tiny house. Inside you’ll find a electric bed lift over the living room, which allows you to transform the couch into a bed with the push of the [...]
Tiny House Designs
500-Year-Barn Turned English Cottage
It’s so nice to see old buildings getting new life instead of being torn down. This stunning barn — built of stone some 500 years ago — is now home to an office space and upstairs guest apartment which you can book on Airbnb. The studio has all stone walls and features a double bed, [...]
UFO Tiny House in Joshua Tree: Area 55
Ronald was looking for a UFO-inspired dwelling that he could use as an Airbnb on his property. He came across the “Futuro Homes,” originally designed by Matti Suuronen in 1968 as portable ski chalets. There are fewer than 60 still standing in the world, but Ronald managed to track one down and purchase it. Transporting [...]
Entrepreneur’s Tiny House Built from Shell
In her 20s, Carly decided she wanted to start her own business as an esthetician, but needed an affordable living situation to make that happen. So she decided to go tiny. She worked with a local professional builder to create the shell, and then she finished the interior with the help of family and friends. [...]
Natalie’s $400 Pallet Shed Using Reclaimed Materials
It’s Natalie here! I do a lot of the writing about tiny homes here, but today I want to show you what my husband and I have been working on — an 8×6 pallet shed using tons of reclaimed materials and rough cut lumber from a local sawmill. We have three little kids and live [...]
The Hermitage: Log Cabin Park Model In the Woods
Charles and Bob live in “The Hermitage,” a stunning stacked-log park model tiny house that features a spacious screened-in porch with an attached dog run. It was built by Green River Log Cabins in South Carolina. For about six years during his adult life, Charles was a monk. The name “Hermitage” is meant to reflect [...]
Vicki’s Retirement Tiny House With A Deck!
Meet Vicki: For the better part of a decade she’s been downsizing from her 1,800 square foot home. First down to around 600 and then to 400, and then to about 250 square feet when she retired. But after three years living tiny, she decided she’d like an addition for guests like her son. And [...]
