Tiny Houses

Have you ever wondered how to build a tiny house on a trailer? You’re not alone.. Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders has been creating how to videos on exactly how to build a tiny home of your own. His latest design is called: Tinier Living. It’s a smaller version of his popular Tiny Living [...]

I was excited to find out that Clothesline Tiny Homes was featured on HLNTV earlier this week. That’s right- Shane and Carrie were on national television just the other day giving America a tour of their tiny house. If you missed it you can watch their segment right here on Tiny House Talk. Not very [...]

Over the years we’ve all been watching as Austin Hay began building his own mortgage-free tiny house. He started when he was a freshman in high school when he was just 15 years old. Austin had only taken one woodworking class before. Besides that, he had watched his dad build a home so he really [...]

By Laura LaVoie I had a couple of things I was thinking about writing for Tiny House Talk this week, but every time I started typing the words just weren’t pouring out as I had hoped. So I thought I would just tell you a little bit about what it has been like living in [...]

8×8 Tiny House Design Contest Submission by Kevin Harrington of Cozy Home Plans This 8×8 tiny house design has quite a lot to offer for its size. There’s a couch that converts to a bed with drawer storage underneath. The ottoman is custom designed to have storage and rollers so you can move it around easily. It’s [...]

Guest Post by Laura Moreland When I selected the milk chocolate-colored siding for Tiny House Ontario it was not my first choice. I had hoped to go with a sort of grey/green/brown, just like the trunks of the trees that surround my tiny house. I hoped the house would blend right in on the background [...]

8×8 Tiny House Design Contest Submission by Hunter D. This cabin is an eight foot cube. Length, width, and height are all eight feet. It is pictured in plywood but could be covered in any material to suit its surroundings. It features a rainwater collection system that gravity feeds the sink and shower. The kitchen features [...]

8×8 Tiny House Design Contest Submission by Jordan O. This was really challenging and fun! Thanks Deek! I’ve attached some sketches to help clarify my ideas -hard to describe things in words only. Keeping in mind that this challenge is supposed to be in the $700 – $800 price range to build, I figured you [...]

8×8 Tiny House Design Contest Submission by Remi My basic parameters: Actual full time living space for one person, year round. Electricity available – solar, grid, or generator. (If not, add an awning and cook outdoors. Hopefully, you live in a mild climate.) 8’ x 8’ concrete pad, 6” thick walls, 7’ x 7’ interior [...]

8×8 Tiny House Design Contest Submission by Mary Parris This is my design for the 8×8 design contest. I’m thinking a shed design with a contemporary flair and a tin roof. Keep the windows high and on the front wall only. The two side walls would have a 12″ shelf bout 6′ up running from the bath [...]

This 130-square-foot beach bungalow tiny house was for sale for $29,000 recently. It was built with all of the amenities that an RV normally offers which include: Hot water heater Furnace Water hook up Freshwater holding tank Gray water tank Blackwater tank It also has a full sized bathroom with a shower and toilet and [...]

JT’s tiny house is a combination of a Tumbleweed Walden and Lusby. He used his own creative ways to customize this tiny house for his own needs. Isn’t that what it’s all about? Creating a home that perfectly suits your needs. That’s what I love about these little homes: you can use plans to help [...]

Guest Post by Ryan Mitchell of The Tiny Life Heating water in a tiny house can be a tricky thing; by its very nature, heating water is often a resource intense endeavor and many solutions are often bulky. These two things are often at odds with those wanting to live in a tiny house because [...]

Not long ago, I attended a networking event for the Asheville Blogger Society. There was a great turn out and after business was conducted we shuffled off to one of the many local watering holes for some socializing. I spent some time speaking with Jason, the author of Tribe.ly, a website dedicated to helping people [...]

One of our wonderful readers, Sandra, sent me her recently completed designer inspired tiny house on wheels. She is not planning on living in it full-time, instead, it’s a really inexpensive vacation home that’s 100% insulated with vapor barriers. Since Sandra lives in the wilderness, parking is no issue for her. The tiny house gets [...]

By Laura LaVoie Before building a tiny house, the most home improvement work I had ever done was painting. But that was the draw of doing something that I had never done before. There were two of us, which made the process easier, but that doesn’t stop most tiny house builders from moving forward. Our [...]

Kanga Room Systems creates modern prefab tiny houses that I think you might like. They are a housing company in Austin, Texas and their units can be used for working, living, or backyard studios. In addition, they build playhouses, add-on rooms, and cabins. Customers can assemble the parts themselves or they can pay extra for [...]