Tiny Houses

I’ve seen this tiny house floating around on the Internet but I never knew where it came from. Today I’m excited to introduce you to the Kingfisher by Jade Craftsman Builders. It’s an 8′ x 18′ stick built mobile home which totals around 144 sq. ft. inside without including the loft. It’s designed by Matthew [...]

Shaye and Tom are a young couple who decided to design and build their own tiny house in West Auckland, New Zealand. It measures 7.2 meters long by 2.4 meters wide which translates to approximately 24′ x 8′. Or a total of 15 square meters (or 161 square feet). They’ve only been living in it [...]

Bette Presley, of Arroyo Grande, was already living relatively small before she decided to go tiny. She downsized from her Grandmothers’ Club mobile home park into her own Tumbleweed Tiny House of just 166 square feet. Part of the goal, she says, is to save her five adult children from having to go through all [...]

This aluminum tiny house on wheels features a unique sliding loft design that can be repositioned to create different interior configurations. Built by Yuri as a DIY project, the tiny home includes a kitchen, bathroom, closet, and multiple loft spaces including a storage/reading loft and a sleeping loft. The aluminum exterior provides durability and weather [...]

Meet Alek, Anjali and Anya. They’re a young couple with a little dog. And they’ve been building they own mortgage-free tiny home on a 8×20 trailer. It was designed in SketchUp and every little bit of the process has been documented on their blog. The tiny house has everything you’d need, including: Kitchen Bathroom with [...]

Last month I told you about a business man who built a community of tiny houses for the homeless in Texas. Ever since then I’ve been noticing more projects and non-profits who are on a similar mission. This story begins with a group of homeless people protesting in a parking lot in the city of [...]

In this post you’re going to learn how to design and build your own version of a tiny house to scale. This is a great way to play around with different ideas you might have before you actually start spending lots of money building your home. It allows you to work out kinks and try [...]

Wanted to show you this 252 sq. ft. tiny house in MA. Deek of RelaxShacks.com gives you the tour with his brother, Dustin, of the Bodega house designed by Tumbleweed. Chris Haynes, the owner/builder, tweaked the plans just a bit to meet his own needs as well as to meet the local building codes in [...]

If you haven’t seen the 200 sq. ft. Zen in Law tiny house yet I think you’ll be glad you did today. It’s a 10′ x 20′ studio was designed and built for a local author near downtown Boise, Idaho. He wanted to have space for writing, doing workshops and hosting the occasional guest. But [...]

If you’ve been discouraged by tiny house prices lately think again. Macy Miller of Mini Motives was able to design and build her own DIY tiny house for just $11,000. And now… she’s offering the plans so if you want, you can build one just like it. More information on that below. The 196 sq. [...]

Wanted to show you Yahini Homes‘ latest tiny house on wheels. It’s called the Butterfly cabin. A few months ago I showed you their 8’x14′ folding porch tiny house. Weighs 5100 lbs, has a built in porch, and is stick-built using glued and screwed 2 x 4 framing. Total width including the gutters (yes, it [...]

Wanted to show you this tiny house for sale in Payson, Utah. It’s listed on eBay right now and was built using Tumbleweed plans from November 2010. The little house was built on an 8’x18′ flatbed trailer. It has electric, water and sewer hook ups just like an RV. This tiny cabin on wheels even [...]

If you like tiny homes on foundations then the SOLETA might interest you. It’s a zero energy tiny house created by Catalin Butmalai of the Justin Capra Foundation for Invention in Romania. The house is on display at the United States Embassy in Bucharest. Not only does it power itself thanks to solar and wind, [...]

Today I’m excited to show you this DIY treehouse cabin resort thanks to Kirsten Dirksen of Faircompanies. There are currently three treehouse cottages on the property. Not long ago I showed you the very first treehouse that the owner built on the property. And they each have conventional bathrooms with toilets and water that go [...]

I’m excited to share “The Box” tiny cabin with you today. It’s a 215 sq. ft. home that Ralph Erskine hand built with the help of a friend beginning in 1941. The goal was to create shelter for his wife and two baby girls on land given to him by a farmer friend. As you’ll [...]

In this post I’m showing you a 117 sq. ft. tiny home on wheels. It’s called the Tumbleweed Elm 18 Overlook. Designed to be built on a trailer it’s mobile, beautiful and functional. All while looking and feeling like a real home. Don’t miss other awesome updates like this – join our FREE Tiny House Newsletter for [...]

A small charity group in Madison, Wisconsin is collecting donations and building 98 sq. ft. $3,000 tiny houses on wheels with the area’s homeless. And it’s not just a hand out since the future tiny home owners labor away to help build their own homes, and hopefully some of their future neighbors homes too. The [...]