After a major life transition, this single mom set out to create a fresh start for herself and her teenage daughter — and she did it by going tiny. Rather than jumping back into the rental market, she chose a more intentional lifestyle and downsized from over 3,000 square feet into a beautifully crafted tiny [...]
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Build Your Own Desiderata Tiny House: 32′ x 8′ Gooseneck
Here’s another set of tiny house plans we think you’ll love — the Desiderata. Build on a gooseneck trailer, you get that awesome split-level living room (or maybe a bedroom?) along with the rest of the great layout that fits in two additional lofts. There’s a spacious kitchen and bathroom, and oodles of storage tucked [...]
$50k Prefab Tiny House Ships At 20-Ft. And Unfolds To 375-sq.-ft. In An Hour
This is a $50k prefab small house with a kitchen and bath that unfolds in as little as an hour. It’s the Boxabl prefab housing unit that can be customized in several ways. The units can be stacked to build a two-level home, and they can also be used as a larger home by building [...]
Model One: Container Tiny House Plans For Sale
Container homes are an awesome way to reduce-reuse-recycle, and with the cost of lumber these days it’s likely somewhat more economical than the alternative. These are plans for a container home (estimated $20,000 in materials to build — expect to pay more today as material costs have gone up quite a lot since this was [...]
Uplift One: Christopher’s 1971 Airstream Conversion
Christopher is the kind of person who just overflows with compassion and positivity, which you’re sure to see from watching his tour of his 1971 Airstream conversion below. When he had to move when his home was being sold, he jumped right into his Airstream conversion so he had a place to live. The result [...]
Rachel’s Ford Transit Spices Up Her Life!
Rachel doesn’t quite remember what inspired her to pursue #vanlife, but at some point in college she started saying she wanted to live in a van, and then she was committed to seeing the idea through. She says van living has provided the “spice” she needed in her life. For the past year she’s been [...]
Newlywed’s Custom-Built THOW w/ Elevator Bed!
Just wait to meet one of the sweetest tiny house couples Tiny Home Tours has interviewed. Janae and Blaine designed and built their amazing THOW and have been living it since they got married back in 2019. It’s entirely off-grid, as well, and they have three adorable kittens. But they don’t just live tiny — [...]
Outstanding 10-Dome-Home Built w/ Balloons & Foam!
This is definitely pushing the boundaries of what belongs on “Tiny” House Talk, but this alternative dome home — or should I say, “mansion” — is worth looking at despite it’s monstrous size! It’s created from 10 domes connected in a circle, that were built back in the 70s using balloons, rebar and foam. Pretty [...]
‘Electrical Nerd’ Turned Travel Writer and His Van
Sheridan started his career as an electrician, and still considers himself an “electrical nerd.” But after years of that profession, he jumped ship and turned to photography and travel writing. He had been traveling the world for a couple of years when COVID stopped him in his tracks and forced him to re-evaluate things. Eventually, [...]
Couple With A Baby In A Tiny House With Floating Wardrobe
Maria and Tino are a young German couple who moved to Portland, Oregon and have been raising their baby in a customized 26-foot, 200-square-foot tiny house on wheels. Their standout DIY feature? A clever floating wardrobe that lifts up and stores completely into the ceiling — a brilliant space-saving solution you have to see to [...]
He Came Home to a Bus in His Driveway: “This is Our Tiny Home!”
“Hey, whose bus is in the driveway?” – Chris “That’s our tiny home.” – Chris’ wife, Carol And that’s how it all started! After Chris and Carol saw skoolies at an Atlanta tiny house show, Carol caught the bug, and two weeks later Chris came home to the bus Carol purchased. Then he and some [...]
Dixie Van Delight: Overcoming Fear on the Road
Corey & Shauna have been a couple since they were 15-year-olds in Wisconsin. They’d spent a lot of time in Nashville, when they got job offers to move them to Oregon. The thought of moving all their stuff stressed them out, and before they knew it Google had led them to #vanlife. That said, they [...]
Active Duty Navy Officer & His Trawler Tiny Home
When Johnny thought he was getting a new Navy position that would have him deploying more frequently, he chose to rent out his home and purchase a 1981 CHB Ed Monk Trawler to use as his home base wherever he went (rather than paying rent in a number of cities). The Navy ended up cancelling [...]
Escape’s Mid-Century Modern N1 Tiny Home
We just got some new pictures of the N1 Model from Escape, and had to show you this amazing build again! They created this sleek single-floor home as a one-of-a-kind project for their tiny house village, but because of the overwhelmingly positive response they received, they’re going to develop a smaller version to become one [...]
