Introducing Travis Pyke and his wife Brittany. They are a husband and wife tiny house living couple. A few years ago they fell in love with simple living and the tiny house movement. They’re in love with the movement because they enjoy creating custom designed micro homes for people since it gives them the ability to [...]
Tiny House Designs
$10k DIY Off Grid Solar Tiny House
This 185 sq. ft. off-grid solar tiny house design was submitted as part of LaMar’s off grid tiny house design contest where you can win up to $500 if you submit a design before 6/30/14. Jonathan Marcoux’s squared eco house is 12’3″ x 12’3″. It has a water harvesting system, solar heating, solar panels, aquaponics farming system, and more. [...]
How to Design Tiny Houses in SketchUp Lessons 1-5
In this video based post you’re going to learn how to design tiny houses in SketchUp with LaMar Alexander of Simple Solar Homesteading. So hopefully if you’re here you’ve already downloaded SketchUp and you’re ready to follow along. If not, you can do so right now. Then come back here to watch the video so you [...]
Living Small: Tiny House Documentary
Meet Anderson Page. He’s an environmental studies graduate at Northeastern University. He’s also the designer and builder of the tiny house you’re about to see in this post. Page designed and built this tiny home for his undergrad thesis project because it falls in line with his passion for better housing. Student Creates Tiny House Documentary I encourage you [...]
Building a Mortgage-free Tiny House by the Seat of My Pants
Building a Mortgage-free Tiny House by the Seat of My Pants – Part 1 – by Shirley Loomis Years ago virtually every home in this country was built by the men and women who lived in them. They were homes, barns, outbuildings of one form or another, silos; homes for people, crops, and livestock. These were [...]
The Tiny Project: Modern Tiny House Plans
Remember Alek’s amazing DIY tiny house on wheels that I showed you a while back? If you haven’t seen it be sure you check it out because it’s one of my favorite designs. And now I’m glad to announce that Alek has made the plans available for us to purchase. This means you can download [...]
Misty’s 400 Sq. Ft. 16×25 Solar Off Grid Small House
This 400 sq. ft. solar off-grid small house design was submitted as part of LaMar’s off grid tiny house design contest where you can win up to $500 for submitting your own design. But this 16′ x 25′ small home is designed to be a spacious, space saving, creative tiny home that’s fun to live in and share with others if you [...]
