Kenny Foust submitted the first design to Simple Solar Homesteading’s awesome “Off-Grid Houses on the Move” Contest, which runs now through October. If you have an off-grid portable housing design (or actual structure!) you’d like to submit, you can see the rules for the contest here. Winners get prizes so it’s worth a try! He [...]
Trucks
He Lost Everything in a Crash, but Rebuilt This Amazing Truck Home
Man, talk about a heart-wrenching and inspiring story! Andrew Muse left home after high school and hit the road. Eventually he saved up for a truck and truck camper which he and his dog, Booter, used to travel the country and live in all kinds of amazing places. But on a trip home, he got [...]
Marsha’s Temporary Truck Bed Tiny Home!
Marsha is a long-time Tiny House Talk reader as well as a tiny-home-dweller. She just sold her amazing THOW in Arizona because she’s moving back home to North Carolina to be closer to family. While she’s planning on building a new tiny house in NC, she needed something to live in during her road trip/move. [...]
Detachable Micro Cabin Motorhome: Haaks Opperland Campervan
It’s always fun to find something completely different, and that’s what you get with the Haaks Opperland campervan. This is actually an itty-bitty two-story cabin that sits on the bed of a compact Fiat flatbed truck. Simply drive the home to your location and drop it off. The 13-foot-long building then pops open, and the [...]
Radagast: Lord of the Rings-Inspired Box Truck Conversion with Wood Fireplace
Glen is a retired police officer who converted a box truck into a Lord of the Rings-inspired tiny home. As a skilled carpenter, he transformed the interior into something that looks straight out of Middle-earth. He named the truck Radagast after the brown wizard from The Hobbit. Inside, the truck features a king bed, kitchen, [...]
Jake’s Japanese Ambulance Bus Conversion w/ Fold-Down Stage
This is the story of Jake’s Japanese ambulance bus conversion. He actually has two of them, now, and their names are Peachy and Jiro. He’s on Instagram @wherewe_roam. Jiro is a 1989 Japanese ambulance truck that was brought to the United States. This is Jake’s second bus, and he named it Jiro because it means [...]
Nate’s 4×4 Box Truck Tiny House Conversion
This is the story of Nate and his box truck tiny house conversion. Originally, he bought the 1989 Ford E350 for $9,250. The best part is that it only had 33K miles on it. Turns out, it wasn’t really being driven very much, it was being used as a mostly stationary bunkhouse/cabin in Auburn. So [...]