Video Tours

In this quick video-based post you’ll get to learn about and tour Derek’s 18′ Tumbleweed Cypress Tiny House on Wheels that he built himself in New Orleans! This post is thanks to Tiny House Giant Journey and their video on YouTube. You’ll get to learn about Derek’s custom tiny house design along with some important [...]

Chris Page’s tiny house on wheels is based on the Minim design by Brian Levy, of Minim Homes. And thanks to Kai Rostcheck of I Love Tiny Houses, you’ll even get a video tour and interview with Chris (below). Inside this cabin there’s about 11′ of width and about 22′ of length. Not bad for a tiny house on [...]

In 1975, Architect William Morgan wanted to build rental properties next to his Atlantic Beach, Florida home.  He only had one problem when trying to decide about building the properties.  He didn’t want to lose his beautiful ocean view.  His solution?  Use the existing sand dune on his property as the foundation and build the homes [...]

This tiny apartment story is a guest post by Sally and Nikita of Yuppies In Paradise We are a young couple who downsized from 1,000 square feet into a 400 sq. ft. tiny apartment. Part of our reason for downsizing our life was to save money so we could quit our jobs and travel around [...]

When 22 year old Lily Kemp wanted to escape the trap of high rent in New Zealand she made a $1000 vintage pop-up camping trailer her affordable tiny housing solution. Today she parks it in someone’s backyard and pays much, much less in rent. According to Living Big in a Tiny House, she now even has enough [...]

This custom 32′ gooseneck trailer tiny house on wheels was built by Greg Parham, of Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses, for a family of three (husband, wife, toddler, plus a dog and a cat). The family wants to simplify their lives so they can pay off their debt sooner. They named this tiny home on wheels the Rio [...]

I’m excited to tell you about Hammerstone School because it’s a tiny house carpentry school for women in Trumansburg, New York. Best of all, they learn by building tiny houses hands on. The school offers  workshops and courses including Basic Carpentry Skills 101, Tiny House Framing for Beginners, and more. Below you can see how a group of 13 [...]

In this post you’ll learn about a group of students who took part in a tiny house carpentry program at Carcross/Tagish First Nation in Carcross, Yukon. This is an initiative that took place in 2014 in partnership with government and non-government organizations who helped put it all together. Every morning the students meet in class [...]

This is a tiny house builder in Hawaii called Habitats Hawaii. The organization is run by two women, Barrie Rose and Johanna Tilbury, which you can learn more about here. So if you’re in Hawaii and you’re looking for help building your own tiny house then maybe you might want to consider hiring Habitats Hawaii for the job. [...]

This is the story of a man who built his own tiny house for less than $500. His name is Scott and he calls it his transforming tiny home because it has a custom and very simple fold-out bed. And here’s what’s really interesting. This is the biggest house he’s had in almost 3 years [...]

In this video post you’ll get to see how a man named Rob Greenfield downsized into a 50 sq. ft. micro house on wheels that he bought for only $950. Rob admits that he is pretty extreme when it comes to downsizing. And I agree because this kind of lifestyle is definitely not fit for [...]

An interesting video report by WLOS News 13 on the current tiny house movement in Asheville. The story features 22-year-old Ruby Beg who is a college senior building a 144 sq. ft. tiny house on wheels with her boyfriend, Landon. It’s taking them about $14,000 in materials and about a year of labor on their [...]

The Adopt a $20k house program is a charitable project by Rural Studio which is a part of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction at Auburn University. In the past, I’ve featured some of Rural Studio’s work before. In fact, it’s one of my favorite stories which dates back to July 2, 2010 and it’s titled [...]