Tiny Houses

Hello, again! I am back with a few more ideas from our tiny house family on creating a simple and meaningful holiday celebration. Last week, I shared about setting intentions, holding a family meeting, and buying all gifts locally. Let’s keep going: 3) Share your wishes with extended family – Once you’ve set your holiday [...]

This cozy tiny house is called the Bayside Bungalow and is located in rural Olympia, Washington. It’s right on the shore of the Puget Sound and you can rent the house nightly, weekly or even monthly if available. This is the best way to figure out if a tiny house is right for you or not. And [...]

When you ask people when tiny houses were invented you get all sorts of answers. And it’s true that they’ve been around for a long, long time. We all know it can be safe to say that humans started out with tiny homes as shelters. So what we’re really doing is going back to the [...]

Last month we had an 8×8 tiny house design contest and we received so many incredible submissions: Remi’s Design Hunter’s Design Kevin’s Design Jordan’s Design Mary’s Design Anthony’s Design And my friend LaMar also submitted his own design which is awesome. It was just a little bit late so we didn’t get to include it [...]

Guest Post By Movoto Real Estate The tiny house movement started from a need to simplify life and to become more environmentally friendly. The concept behind taking up residence in a tiny house is to limit impacts on both wallets and environments by costing less, creating less waste, and leaving a smaller energy imprint. The [...]

A while back I introduced you to the first tiny house that has made it to ESPN. The folks behind it have definitely not stopped there. Their quest for snow (powder) has continued. Imagine living and traveling in a tiny house with more than just you… How about a total of five people? This video-based post [...]

The good folks over at Tennessee Tiny Homes just delivered their first tiny house. The client preferred not to have a television so they took it down and installed a large window instead, as you’ll see in the photos below. The house headed towards the Tennessee mountains and made it passed plenty of tight squeezes [...]

A few months ago one of our wonderful readers, Jane, was kind enough to send me a copy of her new book. It’s called Freedom through Frugality. She wrote and self-published the book and it’s available at her website Spirit of Life Publishing. Recently she’s finished up a tiny house on a trailer project which [...]

This backyard tiny house is used as an office. If you work from home what better way to separate your career life with your home life then to build an office a few steps away? Designed by Sarah Deeds of Deeds Design and built by carpenter John McBride. It was even recently featured on Dwell Magazine [...]

Hold onto your hat; the holiday season is about to explode in retail stores everywhere. I know it’s still early, but setting your intentions now, will give you the opportunity to design your celebration rather than react to marketing. According to the Gallup Poll, Americans spend between $400 and $800 on holiday gifts. It’s easy [...]

Guest Post by the Wooly Wagons Team Here is a concept drawing of the Wooly Wagon currently being built in our shop. Most of our work is custom designed, taking in the desires and needs of our clients. After an in-depth interview with our customer, in which we cover such things as purpose, materials and [...]

I had the opportunity to speak with Alex from right here at Tiny House Talk the other day. We had a great conversation and he asked a lot of great questions. Some of the things he asked got me thinking about where this all started and just exactly how we got to a point in [...]

Today lots of people are looking for alternative ways to live without mortgages and it turns out that there are several ways to do it. Tiny houses on trailers aren’t the only way to go. And with enough labor and the right materials you can create a very lovely home. The folks at WPICreative took [...]

I just got an interesting message on Facebook from a reader who jokingly suggested there should be a tinyhousemingle.com so people like us who are interested in tiny houses can find dates with similar interests. Haha, there’s a question I’ve never been asked before! But really.. why not? At first, I couldn’t think of anything so [...]

I just ran into this bunkhouse tiny house and thought I’d share it with you. The owner of the little cabin, Sue, runs a blog called A Porch of My Own hence the name of this post. She had the shell of the cabin built by a company that delivered it right to her property [...]

Most of us or at least I think most of us want a tiny house to live in full-time so we can live life on our own terms. At least that’s why I was motivated to initially look into little homes.. How about you? And I was able to achieve a lot of the same [...]

Just a few days ago I received an email from my friend Ryan who blogs about tiny houses at The Tiny Life. He basically announced that after 3 and a half years of writing and talking about tiny homes that he is finally going to build one for himself to live in as his home. [...]