Have you seen Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen’s 8′ x 8′ x 8′ 64-square-foot tiny house slash micro cabin? It’s made mostly out of plywood and if you’ve read his book, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, you’ve seen pictures of it already.

They built it in Brooklyn, New York inside the old warehouse workshop you can see below. It was a prefab design done by Derek. It took him two days to create the prefab kit and 5 hours to put it together with 3 people. There are all sorts of cool designs inside and out include a pop up window, lantern and a voodoo owl.

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Diedricksen Bros Build 8×8 Micro Cabin

Photo Courtesy of Derek Diedricksen

When you go inside there’s an Ikea chair, 70s carpet, and a custom-made triangular bed.

Video tour of the 8′ by 8′ tiny prefab house from Deek

Length: 2:45

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Kirsten is going to show you Jay Nelson’s micro house that he built on a customized bicycle. It’s 27 square feet in size and has everything a surfer needs. It even has a roof rack to store and move around your boards!

Jay’s micro vehicle/bicycle home is made out of plywood sheets covered in fiberglass. He even custom made every window that’s on it. This little custom made RV even has a kitchenette with a stove, sink and drain. He uses a manual water pump that’s hooked up to a jug, sort of like this one. There’s even storage underneath the floor to hold everything you’d have to take with you. It stands about 5 feet tall and is 8 feet long and 4 and a half feet wide.

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Jay Nelson and micro houses he’s built on bikes, rowboats, and cars

Photo Credit Jack Halloway via Flickr

I told you it has an electric motor right? It has a range of 10 miles and can go up to 20 mph.

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Jay Shafer felt overwhelmed by the 4,000 square foot home he grew up in back in Iowa.

Time, energy and resources were spent maintaining space that added very little to their lives on the whole.

This distaste for wasted space emerged as a creative influence when Shafer was in his 20s.

After college, he started making blueprints of tiny homes just for fun.

Exploring how space is used, brainstorming how to use it more efficiently and learning about the materialism of our culture, he decided to pursue the passion further.

One of the legal difficulties he found right away was zoning laws that restrict how big anyone living establishment must be.

In most states, to be considered a house a building has to measure at least 220 square feet.

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Photo Courtesy of Tumbleweed Houses

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This is a tour of the original Dee Williams Tiny House!

She originally built it for less than $10,000 USD. Isn’t that crazy? What if your house was only $10,000 and paid off?

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This is the tiny house that she built for less than $10k

Photos Courtesy of Tammy Strobel

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Say hello to the Glam Pod over in England.

They made it for people who need a home, but are not yet ready for a large one.

So for now, they can put the Glam Pod in their parents or friend’s backyard.

It takes 8 to 10 weeks to build and is delivered on a small trailer.

This tiny house can be connected to utilities and water.

It is made out of 95% timber.

The exterior siding on the house is English cedar.

Insulation exceeds building code requirements, and the design inspiration came from Malaysia.

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Photo & Video Credit Sandi Thompson

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Meet Sage and his hand-built gypsy wagon. He built this tiny house on a trailer on during weekends which took four months.

Sage paid about $4,000 in materials and did all of the labor himself. Today he uses a lot less energy to live and has much less space for clutter to build up, which he likes. Sage now feels organized and mobile. He lives a voluntarily simple lifestyle in a gypsy wagon style tiny house that he built himself. You can check it out below.

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He Built a $4,000 Tiny House in 4 Months

Photo Courtesy of Sage Radachowsky at GypsyLiving.org

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You are looking at the Tonita Tiny House built by Slabtown Customs.

From the outside, it’s like the builder’s AnneMarie tiny house design.

It’s 24′ long and 8′ wide and was customized by Tonita, one of our readers who has commented before.

So there’s an 8′ x 6′ covered front porch which leaves 8′ x 18′ for the interior space.

The porch is large enough for two rocking chairs which is nice.

The bathroom is in the rear of the house and has a bathtub, toilet, and sink.

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Kevin, from Cozy Home Plans, sent me pictures of his upcoming tiny house design with a balcony. The design hasn’t been released yet, but we know it has the following features:

• an upstairs and downstairs to separate the living space
• an upstairs balcony
• you can set up another outdoor area underneath the balcony
• cathedral ceilings when you walk in makes it feel spacious

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The Cozy Cube Tiny House

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