Tiny Houses

April is a graduate student in English at the University of Oregon. In this video she’s interviewed on her decision to live in a tiny house on wheels. Oregon Student Living the Tiny Life At 19’x8′ the home is just 130-square-feet including the sleeping loft. It’s got a tiny covered porch and you walk right [...]

Two weeks ago, I wrote about the LumenHaus, a small, energy-efficient tiny house prototype by Virginia Tech. With its very high-tech features, it’s a neat example, but its $450-650,000 price tag puts it out of the reach of most of us. But another university group has been focusing on designing small houses with a much, [...]

Here’s a tiny house I hadn’t seen before that I get to show you thanks to SpacesTV and my friend Ali. And it’s got a one of a kind way of generating free heat which I’ll show you below. It was designed and built by Yestermorrow Design Build School students. Yestermorrow Tiny House It was [...]

I’ve always wanted to draw out my own tiny house plans. One of them has always been one for a person like me who works from home. Whether you’re an author, writer, blogger, artist, cartoonist, musician, freelancer, or accountant… Wouldn’t a backyard tiny house to work in be awesome? I think so. The WorkHaus Tiny [...]

Ever wonder about having a tiny house in the winter? Our friends Chris and Malissa at Tiny Tack House just posted the video you’re about to see. It’s of their tiny home on wheels while it’s snowing. Video: Tiny Home in the Snow Just because a little house is on a trailer doesn’t mean it [...]

The Oregon Cottage Company built this beautiful tiny house on wheels for a client with great ideas. The based it on their Siskiyou design but they changed the following to meet the client’s needs better: removed the porch, added a utility room, created a front deck, and made the sleeping loft bigger. I’d like to [...]

This is Nate and Jen’s tiny home on wheels. It originally started out as a camper that Nate bought which they later dismantled, refurbished, and built this beautiful tiny home on. The trailer is 8’3″ by 24’10” and he used 2x4s instead of 2x8s for floor joists to decrease the home’s weight. Isn’t it incredible [...]

Just got an email this morning from the folks over at Molecule Tiny Homes. Remember their surfer’s oceanfront tiny house that they built for a client? And their spacious tiny home with a flip down porch? Another Spacious Tiny Home on Wheels by Molecule Tiny Homes… I love Molecule’s tiny house designs and builds because [...]

Recently I was made aware of a tiny house page on Facebook called Extreme Makeover: Tiny Home Edition. I thought the concept was interesting at first but really didn’t think much about it at that point. Next thing I knew I noticed some horrifically hateful things on the page that made me think twice. Several [...]

If you’re a Fan on our Facebook Page you might have been a part of a conversation we had on tiny house loans on March 1st. Since then we have come up with a simple solution so we can start creating financing for people like you. Now We Are the Bank? More importantly, it’s a way [...]

The other day a reader sent me an email with a few photos of a park model tiny house that he ran into while driving. This park model tiny home had just moved into a trailer park where he happens to drive by regularly. This excited him so much (I would be too) that he [...]

With the surge in interest in tiny houses, and the growth of a “tiny house community” online, there has been increased interest in the development of real-world tiny house communities. Probably the most serious effort so far is the “Napoleon Complex” tiny house village being developed by Jay Shafer’s Four Lights Tiny House Company. It [...]

Here at THT we are often asked questions about building a tiny house without a loft. A lot of people who are interested in the concept are planning for their futures and want to be sure that they can spend their retirement years in the comfort of a tiny house without needing to climb a [...]

Support the Project Ventura Kickstarter: Girls High School Engineering Class tackles ecological literacy by rebuilding a vintage trailer with off-grid flair! These girls are inspired by the Tiny House Movement and are poised to make a big difference in their community. But they need your help. Texas has more TINY going on than one might [...]

My friend Niall over at Humble Homes has released another set of tiny house plans. This one is called the Turtle House. It’s a little home on wheels with: Downstairs bedroom/desk Two large floor to ceiling closets Upstairs sleeping/storage loft Full service kitchenette Bathroom with full sized shower Turtle Tiny House Plans: Humble Homes This home [...]

Most of the time we talk about tiny houses as our only home. But have you ever considered owning multiple tiny homes, if you could? After reading Laura’s post on tiny house living in the city versus the country, it really got me thinking about this. Instead of one large house or condo, you’d have two- [...]

When you have a tiny house on a trailer you have to prevent the tires from moving after you park it. You also must properly level it so you don’t end up sleeping on a slant. These X-Chock Tire Locking Chocks work perfectly for trailers with two axles. The chocks are adjustable and they lock [...]