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This is a 40′ x 8′ shipping container tiny home located near Austin, Texas that was built for less than $20,000. From the outside, you’ll see it features a built-in, covered front porch with easy access to the roof so you can hang out up top on the additional roof top porch. Inside, you’ll find [...]

This is a 107-square-foot off-grid tiny house that was built for only $2,500 using mostly reclaimed materials. It was built with the help of 15 people working together to make it happen and it features a unique geodesic dome window. When you go inside, you’ll find a living area with a couch and workstation and [...]

This is a 67-square-feet recycled tiny house built for only $420. It’s built on privately owned land where residents are developing their own DIY community. Residents get to use the land for free in exchange for developing it with other structures, farming, and more. In the future, we believe more vacant land owners will allow this sort [...]

While volunteering at a cold-weather shelter near my home in Grand Forks, British Columbia, I was consulted about designing transitional housing for the homeless. After some discussions with the staff and guests at the shelter I went home to draft some floor plans that I thought might meet the housing needs of the homeless, with [...]

This is the 243 sq. ft. Stem-n-Leaf tiny house on wheels by Adam Rasmussen of TMBRZ. It features opposing roof lines, a recessed entry, and contrasting siding which makes it very unique. Inside, you’ll find light walls, colorful cabinets, cork flooring, and touches of finished plywood to give it a clean and contemporary feel. Please [...]

In November 2014, city council members in Walsenburg, Colorado, a crossroads community located 90 miles south of Colorado Springs, eliminated a longstanding zoning code prohibiting buildings smaller than 600 square feet. They wanted to make room for so-called tiny homes, the trendy structures that have become popular with everyone from millennials to baby boomers seeking [...]