Tiny Houses

When you’re getting ready to live in a tiny house or other kinds of small space you’ll probably end up wanting a futon. This way when you have guests there’s somewhere for them to sit and/or sleep. A futon is almost like having a sofa bed except that it’s less expensive and most of the [...]

Phil Thiel of Seattle, Washington, has inspired a whole fleet of tiny human-powered houseboats in the United States, England, and Germany. He calls his quaint canal cruisers Escargots for their slow speed and sells the building plans for just $150. Each 18.5′ by 6′ houseboat fits up to three bunks and is propelled by a [...]

Most of you already know Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders. He’s currently working on the Tiny Living house model that you’ll see here. In the past, I’ve given you a video tour of both of his models: Tiny Retirement Tiny Living Dan is almost finished with the interior of this one and soon he’ll [...]

A few days ago I got an e-mail from a guy named Johnny about a tiny house he built on a trailer. After a few exchanges, he said he’d be glad if I shared the information and pictures with you. Some of you might be excited to know that it’s for sale. The house weighs [...]

Have you seen Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen’s 8′ x 8′ x 8′ 64-square-foot tiny house slash micro cabin? It’s made mostly out of plywood and if you’ve read his book, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, you’ve seen pictures of it already. They built it in Brooklyn, New York inside the old warehouse workshop you can see below. [...]

Kirsten is going to show you Jay Nelson’s micro house that he built on a customized bicycle. It’s 27 square feet in size and has everything a surfer needs. It even has a roof rack to store and move around your boards! Jay’s micro vehicle/bicycle home is made out of plywood sheets covered in fiberglass. [...]

Jay Shafer felt overwhelmed by the 4,000 square foot home he grew up in back in Iowa. Time, energy and resources were spent maintaining space that added very little to their lives on the whole. This distaste for wasted space emerged as a creative influence when Shafer was in his 20s. After college, he started [...]

This is a tour of the original Dee Williams Tiny House! She originally built it for less than $10,000 USD. Isn’t that crazy? What if your house was only $10,000 and paid off? Don’t miss other super interesting tiny house stories like this, join our FREE Tiny House Newsletter for more! This is the tiny [...]

Say hello to the Glam Pod over in England. They made it for people who need a home, but are not yet ready for a large one. So for now, they can put the Glam Pod in their parents or friend’s backyard. It takes 8 to 10 weeks to build and is delivered on a [...]

Meet Sage and his hand-built gypsy wagon. He built this tiny house on a trailer on during weekends which took four months. Sage paid about $4,000 in materials and did all of the labor himself. Today he uses a lot less energy to live and has much less space for clutter to build up, which [...]

You are looking at the Tonita Tiny House built by Slabtown Customs. From the outside, it’s like the builder’s AnneMarie tiny house design. It’s 24′ long and 8′ wide and was customized by Tonita, one of our readers who has commented before. So there’s an 8′ x 6′ covered front porch which leaves 8′ x [...]

Kevin, from Cozy Home Plans, sent me pictures of his upcoming tiny house design with a balcony. The design hasn’t been released yet, but we know it has the following features: an upstairs and downstairs to separate the living space an upstairs balcony you can set up another outdoor area underneath the balcony cathedral ceilings [...]

I just found out that a tiny house on a trailer made it on to ESPN. This is all thanks to Molly Baker, Zach Giffin and Neil Provo. Here’s what Zach had to say about it: “It seemed like kind of a far-fetched option, but an obvious attention grabber and a classy way to conduct [...]

In 2011, Toledo Museum of Art received a donation from community partners The Andersons and The Lathrop Company for materials, labor, and transportation costs to build a Tumbleweed tiny house. The model chosen was the 65-square-foot Tumbleweed XS House. The little house was included as part of the Small Worlds exhibition to represent the small [...]

Deek just published a video tour that his brother, Dustin, shot of the Bolt Together House. According to Deek, in 1972 this small house design was featured in Family Circle Magazine. I recognized it from Lester Walker’s book, The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses which was published in 1993. Apparently, more than 25,000 people purchased [...]

Have you ever thought of going without a car? I have. Especially since I work out of my apartment. But even if I didn’t… I remember I used to ride 5 miles to work on a bike on some days and it was great exercise. Think about it. What if you didn’t have to pay [...]

The Fosters’ unique homestead in New York sets a good example for marriages as well as tiny houses. Sandra Foster, 42, shares a rundown 1970s trailer with her husband Todd on a 14-acre property in the Catskill Mountains but each spouse also has a private retreat customized to their personality. They met over their mutual [...]