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$24k budget tiny house tour – Exploring Alternatives 1

Young Man Builds $24K DIY Tiny House + Winter Living Experience and Tour

Mark singlehandedly built this DIY tiny house on a tight budget, and used mostly reclaimed and secondhand materials to furnish the interior. The entire home cost $30K CAD (~$24K USD) to build, and that includes the cost of a new custom trailer, new lumber, and the rent he paid for a building space. He and…

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Tiny Homes for the Homeless in San Jose Wins Approval!

SAN JOSE — A plan to build “tiny homes” for San Jose’s homeless residents passed its first major test Tuesday, and now the city must answer the most difficult question — where to put these micro sleeping cabins.1 After a heated debate, the City Council voted 9-2 to approve a yearlong pilot program to build…

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Foldable Prefab A-frame Cabin by MADI in Italy… The MADI House

This is the MADI model by Renato Vidal. It’s a design for a folding prefab A-frame cabin. You can watch the video below to see how it works. You can even add multiple units together to create your own customized A-frame home! Pretty cool, right? If you like this concept, be sure to read Lloyd…

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Playa Viva Beachfront Treehouse in Zihuatanejo, Mexico

This is the Playa Viva Beachfront Treehouse by Artist Tree Homes located at the Playa Viva Resort in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Although I can see something like this being built inexpensively, especially if you build it yourself, this is a luxury vacation unit that’s pricey to stay in (unfortunately!). But I still thought it was so…

Legalizing Tiny Houses

How These Two Women Are Trying to Legalize Tiny House Living in BC

Two women, Sam and Stasia, co-founded the BC Tiny House Collective in 2016 to legitimize and legalize tiny houses in the province of British Columbia, Canada.  They now have thousands of people supporting them, and over a hundred volunteers to help with everything from building tiny houses and analyzing research data, to updating their website. They’re…

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Green Gate Log Cabin: A Modernized 120+ Year Old Pioneer Cabin You Can Rent!

This is a 120+ year old Finnish Log Cabin that has been modernized and is now available as a vacation rental in Biwabik, Minnesota. It’s called the Green Gate Log Cabin and to me, it’s the perfect tiny house, wouldn’t you say? From the outside, it looks like a very simple cabin from the 1900’s. But when…