Video Tours

I just found out that a tiny house on a trailer made it on to ESPN. This is all thanks to Molly Baker, Zach Giffin and Neil Provo. Here’s what Zach had to say about it: “It seemed like kind of a far-fetched option, but an obvious attention grabber and a classy way to conduct [...]

Deek just published a video tour that his brother, Dustin, shot of the Bolt Together House. According to Deek, in 1972 this small house design was featured in Family Circle Magazine. I recognized it from Lester Walker’s book, The Tiny Book of Tiny Houses which was published in 1993. Apparently, more than 25,000 people purchased [...]

If you’re living in any sort of tiny house (whether that be an RV, boat, or shack) and you are having to refill your water supply an ultra low-flow shower head is a great investment. Thanks to Evan and Gabby, we get to find out which one is the best. It’s the one they chose [...]

I wanted to show you Big Al’s homemade camping trailer. He has nicknamed it ALVAN the camper caravan. It’s a pretty simple structure on a 8′ x 4′ trailer chasis that he ordered on eazytrailer.com.au. Once he put that together he set up a foundation right on the trailer and began framing the walls. Then [...]

Architect Karl Wanaselja and partner Cate Leger created a unique small house in Berkeley, California. They call it the McGee House. It consists of 104 salvaged car roofs which cover the upper side walls of the home. The inspiration behind the upper siding came from fish scales. The lower wall siding is made out of [...]

Greg Johnson of the Small House Society published a video on how city housing codes influence tiny house living. In a 4 minute video he covers a viewers question, “where can you legally put a tiny house on wheels?” Greg does a great job of explaining the problems we face in addition to different ways [...]

I wanted you to meet someone who decided to turn to become a van dweller in his 1991 Volkswagen Westfalia. Kidding about the down by the river part but seriously: he decided to move into his van while still working at his job. His reason behind it is because one of his dreams has been [...]

While on YouTube the other day I ran into Yestermorrow’s tiny house 227 documentary thanks to Eric who commented and informed me about it. Quite a while back, I put a post together on this sustainable building school. You can get all of the details on how to get involved there. This is part of [...]

A few days ago I received Derek Diedricksen’s latest edition of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks in the mail so I was pretty excited to be able to review it so you can see what it’s all about before you order it. In this video I’ll give you a sneak peak of the book that way [...]

When you ask Simon Dale why he’s doing what he’s doing, he has a simple answer: it’s fun! He has nearly completed building his second unique, sustainable, low-impact home in Wales, designed to nourish the residents as well the natural environment. Dale has a more down to earth response to why he builds the tiny [...]

The Fieldsleeper is a unique motorhome designed by a company named Tonke. I found out about these gorgeous campers thanks to the famous Lloyd Kahn over at his blog. By the way, Lloyd’s recently released his latest book, Tiny Homes: Simple Shelters, that you can order now through Amazon. But anyway you’re here to see [...]

Can you imagine living in your truck, van, or car just so you can pay off your debt? That’s what this 27 year old student, Andy, decided to do so he can pay off his $11,000 credit card. Thank you, Steven, for sharing this video clip on Facebook. Andy decided to leave his $800 per [...]

A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to run into Meg and Joe’s tiny house tour on their YouTube channel. Then I found their blog, Living Small Under the Big Sky, and was glad to read some of the inspiring quotes on living simply. But when I say live simply I also mean living [...]