Video Tours

I ran into Erick’s tiny house over on YouTube. His video takes you through the entire construction process. It’s in a slideshow format and starts with the trailer floor foundation. Erick’s design includes a… hot water heater, refrigerator, and other common appliances. Be sure to notice the corner shelving in the kitchenette area for storage [...]

Who better to have a tiny house question and answer session with than Jay Shafer? He has built dozens of tiny homes on wheels and has been living in them since 1997. A few weeks ago I told you about the Tumbleweed Tiny XS House that’s being featured at the Toledo Museum of Art. Right [...]

This is the UEV 480 Conqueror. It’s Australia’s versatile, off-road-ready, micro camping trailer. Since it’s ready for just about any terrain, it’s a wonderful addition to your 4×4 adventure vehicle. It’s the perfect vehicle add-on to conquer the terrain around you. It’s a breed between an off-road teardrop trailer and a pop-up camper. And it’s [...]

I saw this luxurious and reclaimed garbage container tiny house created by a guy named Gregory Kloehn floating around the Internet lately. After running into it twice and a couple of readers have sent it to me, I thought I should share it with you. It sort of reminds me of the Apocalyptic Tiny House [...]

A few weeks ago I was exchanging e-mails with Kenny in Portland who wants to turn his garage into a studio. It’s just a one-car garage so I’d really consider this to be tiny house living (in a garage). But seriously. With the renovation done right, it can be turned into a really nice studio [...]

With today’s building codes how can you get away with building a garage so that you can convert it into a studio to live in instead of having to construct an entire 1500 square foot plus house on your land? Is that even possible? Here’s the story of how one guy did it in Hawaii. [...]

Living aboard a 36′ Catalina sailboat in the Caribbean… Ah, the good life. Sailboats provide you with a small space so you have little to take care of and clean. Plus, like an RV or motorhome, they give you the ability to travel inexpensively. I’m Alex Pino and I had the chance to meet up [...]

Most of you already know Dan Louche of Tiny Home Builders. He’s currently working on the Tiny Living house model that you’ll see here. In the past, I’ve given you a video tour of both of his models: Tiny Retirement Tiny Living Dan is almost finished with the interior of this one and soon he’ll [...]

Have you seen Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen’s 8′ x 8′ x 8′ 64-square-foot tiny house slash micro cabin? It’s made mostly out of plywood and if you’ve read his book, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, you’ve seen pictures of it already. They built it in Brooklyn, New York inside the old warehouse workshop you can see below. [...]

Kirsten is going to show you Jay Nelson’s micro house that he built on a customized bicycle. It’s 27 square feet in size and has everything a surfer needs. It even has a roof rack to store and move around your boards! Jay’s micro vehicle/bicycle home is made out of plywood sheets covered in fiberglass. [...]

This is a tour of the original Dee Williams Tiny House! She originally built it for less than $10,000 USD. Isn’t that crazy? What if your house was only $10,000 and paid off? Don’t miss other super interesting tiny house stories like this, join our FREE Tiny House Newsletter for more! This is the tiny [...]

Say hello to the Glam Pod over in England. They made it for people who need a home, but are not yet ready for a large one. So for now, they can put the Glam Pod in their parents or friend’s backyard. It takes 8 to 10 weeks to build and is delivered on a [...]

Meet Sage and his hand-built gypsy wagon. He built this tiny house on a trailer on during weekends which took four months. Sage paid about $4,000 in materials and did all of the labor himself. Today he uses a lot less energy to live and has much less space for clutter to build up, which [...]