Tiny Houses

Guest Post by Stew MacInnes of Maximus Extreme Living Solutions I hope this note finds you well. Here are some photos of our latest tiny house. This model we have affectionately named the Dorian tiny house. It was built for a customer in Orlando and just arrived there about an hour ago. The Dorian features: exposed [...]

If you’ve been looking for a tiny home you can take with you, travel with, and go on adventures with. Then, consider a micro-cabin like this one. It still retains its cabin-like look and feel. But since it’s smaller, it’s just so much easier to tow and get around with than a larger tiny house. [...]

If you haven’t seen Jay Shafer’s latest 312 sq. ft. tiny U-house cabin design that’s coming soon (it isn’t officially released yet) then you’ll get to preview it here right now. This is a much larger tiny house relative to Shafer’s earlier designs that range from 65 to 200 sq. ft. but this one is [...]

The Weller Tiny House on wheels is one of Jay Shafer’s latest designs since forming his new Four Lights Tiny House company. And in the recent years, I think he’s made some great improvements to his previous designs most of which are now retired. But right now I want to get your focus on the [...]

I thought you might also enjoy this 510 sq. ft. beachfront tiny cottage that was originally built in the 1920s. Later it was somewhat abandoned for a few years so the new owners gave it a complete restoration while leaving it as original as possible. Some of the unique features for this small beachfront cottage include [...]

In this post Deek is going to show you some tiny cabins right on a river in New Hampshire. They’re called ‘The Pemi Cabins‘ and are on Old Route 3 on Pemigawasset River right by Franconia Notch State Park. Also- Deek’s upcoming ‘hands on’ tiny house workshop- ‘Tiny House Summer Camp 2‘ is in Orleans, [...]

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 [...]

‘From Tiny House to Little House’ is a guest post by Jane Dwinell After living and traveling in our Tiny House for a year, we decided it was time to settle down. We missed gardening, and wanted the community you can build by staying in one place. We looked for property and found what we [...]

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. [...]

Had to show you this amazing micro home called Tiny House Japan. It’s obviously a Japanese inspired and designed little shelter on wheels. This mobile micro cabin was designed and built by Tagami Haruhiko and is meant for use as a tiny camping trailer able to be towed by a small vehicle. Another cool feature which you’ll [...]

I thought you might also like this hand-built rustic modern tiny house in Portland, Oregon. It’s a backyard tiny home that was hand built by the homeowners (and their friends) on the property. Best of all- they used mostly reclaimed and recycled materials to build and furnish the cabin. This not only keeps construction costs low, but [...]

Some of you might remember Tiny: A Story About Living Small. It’s a tiny house documentary created years ago by Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller. I posted on it a while back (and even more later- see below) and some of you even helped raise money for them on their Kickstarter fundraiser. Their Story Featured on MSN Tiny: [...]

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 [...]

I just found out about this new tiny housing documentary called Microtopia thanks to Derek Markham at Treehugger and wanted to tell you about. It’s a documentary with a different style than we’re used to in the tiny house world in my opinion but it focuses on the fact that most of us live in homes that are [...]

I had to let you know as soon as I found out that the Odom family tiny house for sale over at Tiny r(E)volution. (SOLD) If you’re not familiar with their tiny home I featured it a while back on this post after they had recently finished it. But if you’ve been looking for the [...]

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 [...]

I wanted to share this wonderful look at Burt’s Buzz, a documentary about Burt Shavitz, the co-founder and face of Burt’s Bees. The film explores his down-to-earth personality and his love for living simply — often in small cabins and tiny houses surrounded by nature. Even after helping build one of the most recognizable natural [...]