Video Tours

Meet Alysha, her kids, and their tiny house in Red Bluff, California. It was built with the help of the Oregon Cottage Company. She decided to move she and her kids into a tiny home after her husband passed away tragically and unexpectedly in his early 30s after serving in the United States Air Force. [...]

Just a little while back I showed how the core of the Robins Nest Tiny House on Wheels was Built (and how you can do the same) thanks to Brevard Tiny Houses. This is an 8′ x 24′ custom designed tiny home on wheels to meet their clients needs. Even the trailer was custom designed [...]

Guest Post 2013 6 x 12 Cargo Trailer Camper/bug out/suite build – By B. Winger At first, we wanted a vintage canned ham trailer, but most needed too much rebuilding, then we thought about building a teardrop, but after seeing cargo trailer conversions we were sold! We started out with a 6X 12’ cargo trailer that [...]

In this post Deek is going to show you some tiny cabins right on a river in New Hampshire. They’re called ‘The Pemi Cabins‘ and are on Old Route 3 on Pemigawasset River right by Franconia Notch State Park. Also- Deek’s upcoming ‘hands on’ tiny house workshop- ‘Tiny House Summer Camp 2‘ is in Orleans, [...]

This is a car-free eco-village in Los Angeles, California. This post is thanks to Johnny Sanphillippo and Faircompanies. The community is unique because it’s about 3 miles west of downtown Los Angeles and all residents are car-free (their main source of transportation are bicycles). Even better, the Los Angeles Ecovillage residents have created a bicycle [...]

Had to show you this amazing micro home called Tiny House Japan. It’s obviously a Japanese inspired and designed little shelter on wheels. This mobile micro cabin was designed and built by Tagami Haruhiko and is meant for use as a tiny camping trailer able to be towed by a small vehicle. Another cool feature which you’ll [...]

Some of you might remember Tiny: A Story About Living Small. It’s a tiny house documentary created years ago by Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller. I posted on it a while back (and even more later- see below) and some of you even helped raise money for them on their Kickstarter fundraiser. Their Story Featured on MSN Tiny: [...]

In this video based post you’re going to learn how to design tiny houses in SketchUp with LaMar Alexander of Simple Solar Homesteading. So hopefully if you’re here you’ve already downloaded SketchUp and you’re ready to follow along. If not, you can do so right now. Then come back here to watch the video so you [...]

I just found out about this new tiny housing documentary called Microtopia thanks to Derek Markham at Treehugger and wanted to tell you about. It’s a documentary with a different style than we’re used to in the tiny house world in my opinion but it focuses on the fact that most of us live in homes that are [...]

Meet Anderson Page. He’s an environmental studies graduate at Northeastern University. He’s also the designer and builder of the tiny house you’re about to see in this post. Page designed and built this tiny home for his undergrad thesis project because it falls in line with his passion for better housing. Student Creates Tiny House Documentary I encourage you [...]

I wanted to share this wonderful look at Burt’s Buzz, a documentary about Burt Shavitz, the co-founder and face of Burt’s Bees. The film explores his down-to-earth personality and his love for living simply — often in small cabins and tiny houses surrounded by nature. Even after helping build one of the most recognizable natural [...]

If like me you’ve been wanting to see more tiny house communities come to life you’ll probably really enjoy this post (and the videos below). Because projects like this can serve as a model for any of us to follow or at least learn from to create more tiny living micro communities around the world. I [...]

I’m excited about building up a list of up and coming as well as current tiny house communities and in this post I’m introducing you to the 333 acre Sacred Mountain Sanctuary Eco Village which is in Candler, North Carolina. It’s near Asheville (about 25 minute drive away) and it is a new permaculture eco [...]