Tiny House Plans

Here’s a video walk around with Travis and his tiny house on a trailer. The house is 8′ wide and 24′ long. Right above the hitch is where the LP tanks are stored along with the hot water heater. Right next to the water heater is where the water inlet is located so you can [...]

This post is for you if you’re interested in how the construction of a tiny house on a trailer works. It’s a time lapse video based on pictures taken during the building process of Joanna’s tiny house on wheels. She used the Tumbleweed Tarleton Plans as a base and then made her own customizations to [...]

You probably have never heard of the Mulfinger tiny house before. It’s one of Jay Shafer’s old Tumbleweed tiny house designs, but it’s no longer available. The design is simple and elegant, like all of Jay’s work. You are greeted with a porch and everything is perfectly symmetrical. Since this home is not on a [...]

A few days ago I received this email about the Itty Bitty House Company’s tiny house on a trailer post. The insanely livable tiny house is almost $300/sq/ft.  In my region, that’s insanely expensive ;-).  My insurance company tags my stick-built ‘big’ house at $100/sqft replacement. And for the most part, that statement is true, [...]

Jay Shafer felt overwhelmed by the 4,000 square foot home he grew up in back in Iowa. Time, energy and resources were spent maintaining space that added very little to their lives on the whole. This distaste for wasted space emerged as a creative influence when Shafer was in his 20s. After college, he started [...]

In 2011, Toledo Museum of Art received a donation from community partners The Andersons and The Lathrop Company for materials, labor, and transportation costs to build a Tumbleweed tiny house. The model chosen was the 65-square-foot Tumbleweed XS House. The little house was included as part of the Small Worlds exhibition to represent the small [...]