Natalie and Lucas are a super cool couple who own a tiny house, a sailboat, and a van! They primarily live out of the tiny house and van conversion, and Jenna at Tiny House Giant Journey did a great tour of their Sprinter. They prioritized a fixed bed that runs longways in the van to…
The Hadleys had enjoyed RV vacationing and even a park model in the past, but that was with a 6,000+ square foot home base with three stories and lots of stuff. When Craig lost his job in 2020, he joked with Allison that they should sell the house and live in an RV. But that…
Valerie worked in the Navy as a Corpsman and got married — and divorced — young. What some people might have expected to upend her life instead jumpstarted the best parts of it! She left the Navy, bought a small travel trailer, and started her solo adventures. Eventually, she got an awesome gig with Dakota…
The Oaks Tiny House Community by ESCAPE is located in Thonotosassa, Florida, near Tampa Bay. This community of tiny homes offers a balance of modern tiny living and natural surroundings with mature Live Oak trees throughout the property. Multiple ESCAPE tiny home models are featured, ranging from compact open-concept designs to spacious park models with…
Tiff & Eric were living their own separate nomadic lives when they met at Skooliepalooza two years ago. There was a spark and they decided to build out the unfinished 33′ bus that Tiff owned and make it a home on wheels for them as a couple. They also have an adorable child, Ryder, who…
The cheapest way to build a tiny house is to build it tiny, and at 16 by 7 feet this is about as small as they practically get. What makes it work rather than merely small is the elevator bed: a mattress on steel cables that lifts to the ceiling during the day. You get…
The Oaks Village in Tampa Bay, Florida features a variety of ESCAPE tiny house models arranged around a central park with ancient Live Oaks. The community offers different home styles and sizes to fit various needs and budgets, from compact studio layouts to larger units with first-floor bedrooms and lofts. Models include the eONE (with…
Dylan had been looking at vans and tiny homes for a while, wanting to design something himself one day but thinking it’d probably never happen. He casually commented to Lita that #vanlife would be fun, and they started looking for a van the very next day! Amazingly, this couple sped through their tour of the…
James hasn’t had it easy growing up. His father and a number of his aunts and uncles died before the age of 45, reminding James that we don’t all have forever to live. Inspired by the Air Nomads from “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” James is determined to live a life not attached to material things,…
Plenty of tiny houses claim to be off-grid capable. This 308-square-foot THOW by Jobson Tiny Homes was engineered for it. Six 425-watt panels total 2,550 watts of solar, feeding a LiFePO4 battery bank of two 100-amp-hour (51-volt) batteries through a 3,500-watt OutBack inverter — enough to run genuine AC appliances rather than just lights and…
