A Guest Post by Ethan – (Send us your tiny house story) You might have last heard from me back in October/November about the first tiny home that my girlfriend Kelsey and I built and lived in outside of Austin Texas on an organic farm. Well since that time my girlfriend and I were asked [...]
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Couple Builds Tiny Home to Live in their Portland Backyard
That’s right, “couple builds tiny home to live in their Portland backyard while they rent out their main house for income.” Mike and Laura were recently featured in the Sustainable Business Oregon by the Portland Business Journal. They’re a couple who have built a 160 square feet tiny house on a utility trailer to avoid [...]
13 Year Old Teen Builds Debt-free Tiny Home
When she was 12 years old she started building her own debt-free tiny house. This all started around January 2013. It’s just about a year and 4 months later now and she’s finished the project. Sicily now owns her own debt-free 128 sq. ft. tiny home on wheels that she built herself. Please don’t miss other [...]
Woman Builds Mortgage-free $15k Tiny Home in 2 Months
According to the Huffington Post Kayla Feenstra is a landscaper who’s found a way to live better without a mortgage. She designed and built the home of her dreams. It just happens to be a mortgage-free tiny home of just 130 square feet. It’s been nicknamed, “Jack in a Box.” And she built it for [...]
Father and Son Design/Build the Perfect Tiny Home
This is the story of the Vastu tiny cabin, designed and built by a father and son using Maharishi Vastu Architecture design principles. It’s a 200-square-foot tiny home on a foundation with everything you need. It has a full kitchen with marble countertops, a full bathroom with a shower, a spacious sleeping loft, a covered [...]
Man Moves his DIY Off Grid Tiny House and Lives on the Beach Debt-free
A little while back I told you about Brett‘s amazing villa style off grid tiny house on wheels that he built in New Zealand. At that time, it was parked at his parents house but that’s not where he planned on living in it. By the way, you can see that post here in case [...]
Young Lad Builds Bicycle Powered Elevator for his DIY Tiny Treehouse Cabin
This is the story of a creative young lad who invented and built his own bicycle-powered ELEVATOR to get up to his tiny treehouse cabin which is built way up in the trees. Pretty incredible! The story goes like this… Ethan got sick of climbing the ladder dozens of times a day to and from [...]
