Tiny Houses

Wait until you see the latest design from Mint Tiny House Company: The 257-square-foot Onyx 2630! This modern home has all the convenience of a big house in a compact 30-foot-long design. The most remarkable feature of this layout is the 4-foot covered porch that welcomes you into the home. It’s just deep enough for [...]

Holly and her husband Charles moved across Australia to care for Holly’s mom who has Alzheimer’s. They parked the home on a family compound where Holly’s parents have a house and so does her sister and her husband and kids! Now they can all pitch in to watch after Holly’s mom and keep her out [...]

This custom “pioneer” layout from Indigo River Tiny Homes is called the “Dreamweaver” and it was designed for a couple who is going to travel the country and work from home. They have an impressive solar system, battery bank, and an incinerating toilet to make off-grid living possible. The layout features a ground-floor bedroom with [...]

Here’s an amazing hand-crafted tiny house with a writer’s desk. Built primarily from reclaimed materials, all the wood inside is sealed with all-natural tung oil, a non-toxic alternative to polyurethanes and stains. Any paint you see is old-fashioned milk paint; everything is either plywood or natural wood—no MDF or particleboard. Finally, the fabrics chosen are [...]

Explore Bumble Barn at Great Field Farm in Canterbury – a Swiss roll-shaped eco-home featuring a living sedum roof, Passivhaus standards, three bedrooms, and 45 acres of farmland.

Just like this Scottish cow-shed we showed you a couple of weeks ago, this 200-year-old cottage in the UK has been completely renovated, and the results are absolutely stunning. You’d never know you were inside a historic building except for the beautifully preserved cast iron kitchen they framed off in the living room. Even though [...]

Kirsty needed a place to live with her daughter and decided a tiny house would be the perfect, affordable fit. While there were a lot of ups and downs in getting the house from the builder, they got an incredible parking spot in a small community with other like-minded families! Did I mention there’s an [...]

This is an incredible round floating tower cottage on a lake in Joncherey, France. It’s part of a larger community of eco-friendly habitats that share a lovely “lodge” on the shore with a spa and full bathrooms. The floating home is reminiscent of “Swiss Family Robinson,” with rustic railings made from limbs and an all-wooden interior. [...]

Steve and Di were living in an urban apartment when Di started crunching numbers and realizing that having a child would make it tough to make ends meet. That’s when she and Steve decided that a DIY tiny house would give them more time with their son, less time at work, and a closer connection [...]

Are you searching for some tiny house plans? Small House Catalog released three excellent choices recently: A 336-square-foot A-frame, a 224-square-foot studio cottage, and an itty bitty writer’s cabin. If you’re looking for a full-time residence, the A-Frame is likely your best bet as it has a first-floor bedroom, a loft, and a kitchen and [...]

Purposely Lost is a fantastic woodland retreat space in Sandford, Maine, where you can stay in one of three treehouses or two “Hobbit” houses. This underground home, pictured below, is a stunning blend of cozy and luxurious, with warm wood tones, leather accents, and stonework. The home looks like a hill, with moss and mud [...]

This Hobbit house in Pawling, NY features the signature round door and living roof inspired by Tolkien’s designs. The interior is spacious with two separate queen-sized bedrooms, a dining room, living room, full kitchen with full-sized appliances, and two bathrooms. Outdoor amenities include a fire pit and private hot tub accessed via a winding path. [...]

Melissa’s Santa Fe Studio is a gorgeous little adobe casita that offers all the comforts of home in a compact floor plan. Guests rave about the comfortable bed sitting beneath gorgeous exposed beams. French doors lead out into the small covered patio area where you can slowly warm up to the morning. The bedroom flows [...]

Cool Cottages by DMR is one of the newest tiny house builders, and it is now debuting its flagship model: The Dragonfly Cottage! This gorgeous single-level tiny house includes a ground-floor bedroom with a twin bunk over a queen-sized main bed. Plenty of storage is in the bedroom and everywhere else in the home. With [...]

This PodTel might be the future of housing! It was factory-built and dropped off via crane in the Spanish desert, and it’s completely, 100% self-sustaining. The tiny house is off-grid with solar panels, an incinerating toilet, and a water system that sucks moisture out of the air to provide water for the home. All of [...]

Julie and Ryan wanted a place that felt like home, but couldn’t find any affordable options in California, so they built a tiny house! They looked for floor plans that would provide a separate loft office for Julie. Still, they ultimately decided to create their own design that carefully incorporated everything they needed for themselves [...]

This is a stunning Farmhouse-style THOW built back in 2015 and renovated in 2018 that’s now for sale. The current owners lived in it for a few years and are now ready to sell. It has a carpeted queen-sized loft bedroom and a second smaller loft was used for clothing storage. A daybed pulls out [...]