Video Tours

Meet Rocky and Melissa. They live in Maine and have been building what I like to call Hobbit Hole Tiny Homes. Their micro structures can serve a variety of purposes. Originally they were intended to be for children so they were in the playhouse business. Recently they’ve decided to broaden their market when they realized [...]

Some of you are familiar with Louis Burns, who built his own tiny house on a trailer in Austin, Texas not long ago. This little house was built inexpensively and take note that it was Louis’ first attempt at building a home in general. So there are plenty of mistakes that he made which he [...]

As most of you already probably know, Tiny Texas Houses uses 99% pure salvage materials to build their beautiful rustic homes. For six years now, they’ve been turning what would otherwise be considered garbage into one-of-a-kind homes. In fact, they’ve built more than 60 of these gems as of today and each time they continue [...]

This modern truck camper easily fits inside the bed of this F-150 truck. Inside there’s everything you would need to go camping comfortably… A fold out couch bed, kitchen, and a toilet. It’s called the QuickUp Camper. As you enter the camper on the right there’s a kitchen. Opposite of that is the port-a-potty area. [...]

Step into the whimsical world of hidden treasures with this handmade tiny rock castle tucked away in the English countryside. Built by a talented artist beginning in the 1980s, this rock castle is a result of creativity, passion, and determination. It features stained glass windows and has an overall mysterious and somewhat whimsical allure. Join [...]

As most of you know we’re all getting together July 6-9, 2012 for Tiny House Summer Camp hosted by Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen in Vermont. If you decide you want to go, hurry and sign up right now because there are only around 4 spots left. If you want to go, tell Deek that Alex from [...]

I’ve been following Shane and Carrie’s process for a little while now after finding out about their blog, Clothesline Tiny Homes. I was excited to find out that they were featured on ABC 12 in a video that you can actually watch (below) so you get the full tour of their new tiny house. Shane [...]

This post is based on a video created by Kirsten Dirksen of Faircompanies.com about a woman living in a shipping container and a tiny home on wheels with her family. A friend suggested she build something after being forced out of her last home where she was renting. After that she was able to attain [...]

In this video-based post, you’re going to learn the basics of how to floor and frame a Tumbleweed tiny house on a trailer. In this video, they are building the Fencl tiny house using an 18′ trailer. The design shown here is 130 square feet without including the upstairs sleeping loft and the tiny front [...]

This episode by Kirsten Dirksen reminds me how important it is to stay creative and open minded while finding solutions for your tiny house build. The owner of this tiny home on stilts found a unique solution to meet building codes for his project: it’s an observation tower. Fred Reid, owner (and airline exec), calls it [...]

Do you ever wonder what it’s like living in a tiny house?  The best way is to go rent one and spend a few nights in one. That’s why we have a tiny house vacations category. Go try one out if you’re serious about it. But another fun way to explore the idea of tiny [...]

Deek just released a new video tour of Jay Shafer’s original Tumbleweed Epu tiny house. This tiny home design is 8′ wide and 15′ long and sits on a 7′ x 14′ trailer, but you can also build it on a foundation. It’s an 89 square foot house without including the porch and upstairs sleeping [...]

Christopher and Merete from TINY: the Movie are in a new video with their tiny house and their story. It’s a 127 square foot house that they built on a trailer so that they can build a mortgage-free life for themselves without having to endure the consumer pressure of owning a larger home. Just the [...]