Anderjack Box Bungalow Tiny House Plans
The Anderjack is one of Tumbleweed Houses’ designs in the Box Bungalow category, created during the early days of the modern tiny house movement.
This design was created by Jay Shafer, a pioneer of the tiny house movement who lived in small spaces since 1997. Shafer founded Tumbleweed Tiny House Company before later starting Four Lights Tiny House Company.
Jay Shafer and the Tiny House Movement
Jay Shafer helped bring tiny houses into the mainstream, not because he was the first person to live simply, but because he successfully shared his ideas with the world through his designs, workshops, and publications.
His book, The Small House Book, explores loopholes in minimum size housing building codes that can allow tiny homes in various jurisdictions. It also shares his story, research, and several of his designs in full color.
The Anderjack Box Bungalow
This design gained national attention when it was featured on HGTV’s Design Star.
Photos Courtesy of Tumbleweed Houses
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Dan Louche is one of the pioneers of the modern tiny house movement. Through his company Tiny Home Builders, he has helped countless people design and build their own tiny homes on wheels.
Here’s a look at two of his foundational designs: Tiny Retirement and Tiny Living.
Dan Louche’s Tiny House Designs
We first interviewed Dan after he built his first house on a trailer for his mother who lives in Florida. Since then, he has become a leading voice in the tiny house community, creating:
- Tiny House Design & Construction Guide – A comprehensive building guide
- Multiple tiny house plan sets
- A thriving tiny house marketplace
Tiny Retirement
The photo below is an interior shot of Dan’s mom’s house, called Tiny Retirement. This design is made for people who don’t want to climb into a sleeping loft every night, making it ideal for retirees or anyone preferring main-floor living.
Photos courtesy of Tiny Home Builders
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Editor’s note: This is a historical post from 2011. Tiny Green Cabins is no longer in operation.
Jim Wilkins from Tiny Green Cabins contacted us with a tiny house photo contest announcement.
Celebrate Your Space Photo Contest
To qualify your home must be between 50-500 square feet.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release) – Sep 27, 2011 – Living in smaller, sustainable and healthy home is becoming the choice of many. Young singles find an easily affordable home, retirees wanting to downsize and the appeal of creating a custom portable space is also attractive to sportsmen and travelers.
Tiny Green Cabins is excited about 3 years of growth and is looking forward to its 4th year and beyond. Celebrating your tiny space seems like the perfect way to mark this occasion.
For those of you who live in these spaces, celebrate autumn, decorate your cabin with an autumn, Halloween, or Thanksgiving theme and submit a photo that shows how much you enjoy your tiny, efficient space. The online contest ends on November 15th and the winners will be announced on November 24th.
The winner will receive a pair of Plug ‘n Save Energy Products PV Solar Shutters with inverter. This is a solar collector that mounts on the side of a tiny house as window shutters, connects into your electrical system through a standard outlet and adds electricity with your personal grid. Honorable mention up will be eligible for a Lowe’s gift certificate.
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Evan and Gabby are a couple who built their own tiny house together.
Gabby was the one who brought Evan on to the idea of simple living to this extreme.
They chose the Tumbleweed Tarleton building plans that Jay Shafer designed.
A Custom Built Travel Trailer
Their tiny house is registered as a custom-made RV. This allows them to move it around, stay at an RV park, or park in a friend’s backyard.
The design includes plenty of storage throughout. Here’s a look at what this 117-square-foot home includes.
Features
- Air conditioning and heating
- Built-in desk with storage throughout
- Natural cork flooring
- Cozy sleeping loft
- Bathroom with toilet and shower
- Washer/dryer
- Two-burner gas stove
- Toaster oven
- Sink
- Refrigerator
Photo courtesy of Evan and Gabby
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Editor’s note: The Log Pod company appears to no longer be in operation. This post is preserved as an example of innovative tiny cabin design.
Trevor Richardson created The Log Pod tiny cabins in the UK. Here’s the story of how these tiny cabins came to be.
Trevor was looking for ways to increase the number of visitors to his campsite, so he began looking into teepees and yurts. When those didn’t fit the bill, he began developing his own idea of a “wooden tent.”
The 80-Square-Foot Log Pod Tiny Cabins
Trevor wanted something that could be moved around the campsite or even towed to another property if needed. Since he couldn’t find exactly what he was looking for, he designed and built his own.
The first prototype was born shortly afterward. The design evolved to include a 4-foot covered porch in the front for enjoying the outdoors even during rain.
Photos courtesy of The Log Pod
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Imagine watching the Northern Lights from the comfort of your bed, surrounded by thermal glass that keeps you warm while offering unobstructed views of the Arctic sky.
That’s exactly what you can experience at Hotel Kakslauttanen in Saariselka, Finland, where 20 glass igloo tiny houses form a unique village designed specifically for aurora viewing.
Igloo Village: 20 Glass-Domed Tiny Houses
Each glass-domed igloo gives guests unobstructed views of the sky from their bed, as long as it doesn’t snow too heavily. The design serves the area’s main attraction: the spectacular Northern Lights.
Photos courtesy of Hotel Kakslauttanen
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TuboHotel is a unique hotel that has utilized inexpensive materials to provide affordable accommodations to its customers.
Tubo means tube in Spanish. In 2006 architect Andreas Strauss used recycled concrete pipes to create a tiny houses to be used as hotel rooms (DasparkHotel).
T3Arc designed and built TuboHotel with inspiration from the work of Andreas.
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Tubes turned into Tiny Houses for this Hotel in Pueblo Magico Mexico
Located in Tepoztlan, Mexico there are beautiful views of the Sierra on this property. They call the area Pueblo Magico which means magic village.
The goal here was to not only build inexpensively but to also do it quickly. The purpose of the property is to serve tourists in the area.
Photos Courtesy of TuboHotel
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Derek “Deek” Diedricksen of RelaxShacks.com has spent his life building tiny structures—from childhood backyard forts to dozens of micro cabins, sleeping huts, and unconventional shelters. Self-described as a “bizzar-chitect,” Deek approaches tiny architecture with creativity, resourcefulness, and a healthy skepticism of conventional housing norms.
Origins of a Micro Builder
Deek’s passion for small structures started early. At 14, he discovered Lester Walker’s book Tiny Houses, which showed him that others shared his fascination with compact dwellings. That realization launched a lifelong pursuit of designing and building micro architecture.
His backyard has become a showcase of micro cabins, shelters, and shacks—each completely unique, most built from salvaged materials.
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The “Woodie” teardrop camper from Silver Tears Campers in Roanoke, Virginia, represents a distinctive approach to teardrop design—combining the classic teardrop silhouette with mahogany plywood exterior paneling that evokes the wood-sided station wagons of the mid-20th century.
Size Options
The Woodie design is available in two sizes:
- 4′ x 8′: Full-size bed (47″ x 72″), approximately 1,000 lbs total weight, 65 lb tongue weight
- 5′ x 10′: Queen-size bed (58″ x 80″), heavier but still towable by most vehicles
Both sizes feature a 2,200 lb capacity axle, providing ample margin for cargo and accessories.
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