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Meet Sicily Kolbeck of Tiny Maison and her newly built tiny home on wheels. She’s a young lady who finished building her own DIY micro home for $9,838.69. I believe you’ll find her story inspiring and her tiny house, well, amazing. And she still did it even with the most insurmountable of challenges. La Petite Maison [...]

I’m so excited to feature this video tour of Brian Levy’s 210 sq. ft. one-level modern tiny house on wheels at Boneyard Studios thanks to Derek Diedricksen of RelaxShacks.com. Brian designed his own tiny home because there was no set of plans out there that really met his needs. So he ended up with a design that perfectly [...]

This 192 sq. ft. off-grid tiny cabin design was submitted as part of Lamar’s off grid tiny house design contest where you can win up to $500. But this 12′ x 16′ tiny house is designed to be built using 2×6 construction to add extra insulation because the home will be heated with solar power. There will be [...]

This is a guest story by a Tiny House Talk reader and now a DIY builder who built her own debt-free tiny home Why in the world would a female member of AARP who has never built a thing in her life attempt to teach herself the skills necessary to build a tiny house? There are a [...]

In this post I’m going to give you a preview of a new tiny house documentary called Small Is Beautiful in case you haven’t already heard about it. The film is a real life journey featuring people who are building and living in a tiny home. Best of all, the movie will show people what tiny [...]

I just ran into these tiny house folks in Sydney, Australia I thought you might want to know about. They started planning their project in January of 2013 and began building in June 2013 (almost a year ago as I write this). And their tiny house is only costing them about $15,000 which they can [...]