Tiny Houses

I had to re-share these genius tiny house storage steps with you created by the good people over at The Small House Catalog. It’s designed if you live in a tiny home on wheels so you would usually need to find a way to create some steps to get up there anyway. So why not [...]

Right now I’m thrilled to share this free documentary on the ‘Willy Wonka’ of reclaimed tiny housing thanks to Faircompanies. This movie is on Brad Kittel of Tiny Texas Houses. When he came to Texas 30 years ago, he was living in a school bus converted into a home. And he started buying boarded-up houses [...]

Right now I wanted to show you a video tour of Lee Pera’s DIY tiny house on wheels thanks to Derek Diedricksen of RelaxShacks.com. Her little house is still in the works but the tour will give you a good idea of what’s involved when designing and building tiny. This home is located at Boneyard [...]

Right now I wanted to share this 144 sq. ft. Tennessee Tiny Home for sale with you because it’s such a great deal. It’s an 8×18 tiny house on wheels, named Tiny Whitey, built by Joe Everson and his team at Tennessee Tiny Homes and Tiny Happy Homes. When you go inside there are two [...]

Right now I’m excited to show you a 144 sq. ft. tiny cabin on wheels by Yahini Homes. It’s 8′ x 18′ with a side entrance and small covered porch designed for when the cabin’s parked for living. Inside you’ll find an open kitchen, bed, bathroom, and storage. It’s a one level design so there’s [...]

Right now I want to give you a tour of a wonderful little cottage called the Rolling Bungalow. Best of all, if you really like it, you can buy the plans to build it yourself. If you do all of the labor yourself it costs an estimated $17,000 (in 2014 dollars) to build. And you [...]

When Bill Southworth of Hybrid Propulsion began traveling with his Rottweiler he was unhappy with where he had to end up staying. That’s why he ended up creating the 80 sq. ft. transforming cargo trailer stealth tiny house I’m showing you right now. His options before designing and building this unique little cabin on wheels was to stay [...]

The Rose Housetruck For Sale is a guest post/for sale listing by Michael Ostaski This is a chance to own a classic piece of American history. I use to live in this house on wheels and traveled on the road for many years up and down the California/Oregon/Washington coast but now however I have retired [...]

Meet B.A. Norrgard. She’s a woman who attended a Four Lights Tiny House Workshop in February of 2013. After the event, she bought the Gifford tiny house plans and started building. Five months later, her little house on wheels is complete. And now she’s been hired as COO to work with Jay Shafer and the [...]

I’m not sure about you but here’s something I’ve never really thought of… Billboard tiny houses. A Slovakian firm called DesignDevelop has created a triangular tiny house design on stilts that can be used in conjunction with a billboard ad as housing for the homeless. Right now it’s called The Gregory Project. And like me, [...]

This tiny house on wheels for sale is a guest post by Holly Bailey Tiny House for sale. Wood framed tiny house on an 18 ft Tumbleweed titan trailer. It’s about 135 square feet with full kitchen and bath. There are 2 lofts ( one fits a double mattress and the other a single mattress. Asking $49,900.00 [...]

If you’ve been wondering how long does it take to build a tiny house on wheels, you’re at the right place. I received a question from a reader (you can read it entirely below) who was also wondering how long it takes to build tiny, and I thought you might be wondering the same thing. So [...]

This tiny cottage built for $11k is a guest post by Dominique Poulin We recently built this tiny cottage with help from family and friends in Saint-Andre- Avellin, Quebec, Canada for 11k. We were lucky to have a neighbor mill all the exterior wood from our very own trees! The interior is not quite finished [...]

This 288 sq. ft. solar cabin for sale is a guest post by Shannon Riddle Hi Alex (and Tiny House Newsletter readers), I wanted to share our tiny home pics with you. Although we really love our tiny home, it isn’t in the ideal location for our little family. So this tiny home is for [...]

I’m excited to introduce you to John Russell and Debbie Hanson. They’re a couple who’ve gone from divorces and 2,000 sq. ft. homes into a DIY 200 sq. ft. tiny house on wheels that they call their Ritz on Wheels. It cost them only $15,000 in materials to build it themselves and just under a [...]

Right now I’d like to show you The Pod which is a 288 sq. ft. tiny cabin on skids designed and built by Yahini Homes. It’s 12’x24′ and designed to be easily added onto later as the clients needs change. In the past, I’ve shown you the 144 sq. ft. Butterfly cabin on wheels and [...]

Vina Lustado of Sol Haus Design built this 140-square-foot off-grid tiny house on wheels and lived in it full-time for nearly a decade in Ojai, California. Built on an 8.5-foot by 20-foot trailer with an 80-square-foot sleeping loft, the home operates completely off-grid using portable solar panels and passive solar design. The build cost approximately [...]