Tiny Houses

This small beachfront home is the epiphany of a simple yet luxurious beach shack. It’s tiny, yet seems ‘small’. It’s a modern and open oceanfront hut which can completely close up to protect itself from the environment. It was designed by Crosson, Clarke, Carnachan Architects for a family of five (clients) and it’s named the [...]

This entire micro home including the deck is just 90 square feet. If you only include the interior, it measures just 50 square feet. This is just a bit beyond a tiny house, isn’t it? I’d definitely consider it ‘micro’. Good news is that in many areas this would just be a simple backyard shed [...]

It’s called the Tall Man’s Tiny House because the builders are brothers and they are both 6’7″ tall. They designed and built the house just as if they were going to use it for themselves. So if you’re tall or you plan on sharing your tiny home with someone else who’s tall, this might be [...]

This post is based on a video created by Kirsten Dirksen of Faircompanies.com about a woman living in a shipping container and a tiny home on wheels with her family. A friend suggested she build something after being forced out of her last home where she was renting. After that she was able to attain [...]

In this video-based post, you’re going to learn the basics of how to floor and frame a Tumbleweed tiny house on a trailer. In this video, they are building the Fencl tiny house using an 18′ trailer. The design shown here is 130 square feet without including the upstairs sleeping loft and the tiny front [...]

This episode by Kirsten Dirksen reminds me how important it is to stay creative and open minded while finding solutions for your tiny house build. The owner of this tiny home on stilts found a unique solution to meet building codes for his project: it’s an observation tower. Fred Reid, owner (and airline exec), calls it [...]

Do you ever wonder what it’s like living in a tiny house?  The best way is to go rent one and spend a few nights in one. That’s why we have a tiny house vacations category. Go try one out if you’re serious about it. But another fun way to explore the idea of tiny [...]

Deek just released a new video tour of Jay Shafer’s original Tumbleweed Epu tiny house. This tiny home design is 8′ wide and 15′ long and sits on a 7′ x 14′ trailer, but you can also build it on a foundation. It’s an 89 square foot house without including the porch and upstairs sleeping [...]

Christopher and Merete from TINY: the Movie are in a new video with their tiny house and their story. It’s a 127 square foot house that they built on a trailer so that they can build a mortgage-free life for themselves without having to endure the consumer pressure of owning a larger home. Just the [...]

Russia Times published an article and video on tiny houses as a growing real estate trend. It’s titled Dreaming Big, Living Small: Tiny House Movement Gaining Real Estate. I’ve always realized that tiny houses aren’t for everyone. That there will always be a need for regular- and even- large homes. The issue is that there [...]

Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders has already designed his new house and is in the process of building it right now. It’s called Tinier Living because it’s the smallest of his other two designs thus far. This one is meant to be a smaller version of their ‘Tiny Living‘ design which you might have [...]

This tiny house documentary was created by Kirsten Dirksen, it’s called We the Tiny House People. In the last few years, we’ve gotten to see a lot of tiny house and simple living videos, and most of them are thanks to her. Nobody has been more dedicated to bringing you closer and closer to these [...]

I think you’ll like this tiny house because it’s unique, modern and simple. It’s a surf shack on wheels by Molecule Tiny Homes. You might remember them from the tiny home with the flip up porch/deck. According to their original post, it was custom built for a surfer. At a first glance (below) it looks [...]

So here’s a tiny house you might have a dream about tonight. It’s from a builder called Molecule Tiny Homes. The most notable feature is the porch which flips up and down. I like this feature because wherever you might land, you can easily extend your outdoor space without having to actually build a deck [...]

Guest Post by Debra Jordan of How to Live in 320 Square Feet This is when to buck conventional wisdom.  There are a lot of great books on being mortgage free.  “Buy the best land possible with the least amount of money” is some advice often given.  If you search the phrase “When NOT to [...]

I had some questions related to tiny houses and trailers for Andrew Odom over at Tiny r(E)volution and he was kind enough to share his advice with us. If you’re considering building a tiny house on wheels this post will give you perspective as to what it’s like to prepare a used trailer for your [...]

A few days ago Anderson Cooper featured a family who is living in a tiny house. They’re still young with two small children who are getting to share a sleeping loft with each other. But don’t worry- the plan is to save up for a ‘small’ house in the very near future. They plan on [...]