Workshops

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Most of you have heard of TINY: A Story About Living Small. On this post you’ll get to see a video episode where they interview Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen. Deek is the author of “Humble Homes, Simple Shacks” and he blogs over at Relaxshacks.com. ‘TINY” is a not only a documentary about one man’s journey building [...]

A few days ago I received this email about the Itty Bitty House Company’s tiny house on a trailer post. The insanely livable tiny house is almost $300/sq/ft.  In my region, that’s insanely expensive ;-).  My insurance company tags my stick-built ‘big’ house at $100/sqft replacement. And for the most part, that statement is true, [...]