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Tiny Arched Cabins

Tiny homes are the homes of the future! Arched Cabins, located in Houston, Texas and Timberon, New Mexico bring you completely customizable cabins for an extremely reasonable price. Owners, David Cruey and son Josh produce every cabin kit by hand in their shop. The basic kit comes with floor plates, ribs, ridge beam, standard insulation…

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The Wing House: Expanding Shipping Container Home

Introducing the Wing House expanding shipping container home! A versatile, mobile and efficient unit that can be transformed within hours into a customizable home. Equipped with pluming and wired for television, telephone and Internet, these turnkey expanding shipping container homes can be ready within 4-5 hours anywhere you choose to put it and are designed to…

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Couple Turn Box Truck into Tiny Home

Bill and Becky Goddard run Rustic Campers, a business dedicated to turning your camper, van and/or motorhome into the home sweet tiny home of your dreams. The couple has even turned a box truck into their own tiny home on wheels. While many may think it impossible to live exclusively in a small motor home,…

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Rich Daniel’s Tillamook Triple Bay Tiny House

This is a park model tiny house on wheels called the Tillamook Triple Bay by Rich Daniels over at Rich’s Portable Cabins. I’m a big fan of Rich’s work because he builds a variety of size tiny homes on wheels that help meet a variety of needs for people like us who are interested in…

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Solar Tiny House That TRIPLES In Size

Ingenuity is transforming the concept of mobile living as more and more people globally are looking to downsize. Whether considering downsizing for health reasons, ecological reasons, retirement reasons, or simply a lifestyle change, designers like Mehdi Hidari Badie are allowing people to achieve luxury living in the smallest of homes. Badie’s intricate modern mobile home design…

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You and Your Family’s Behavior At Home

The idea of simple living is no new concept but over the last decade simple living has evolved into the ever-popular concept of tiny house living. The recent movement has grabbed the attention of pragmatic people all over the world as they look for ways to maximize living space and cut living expenses, particularly amongst from…

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Solar Tiny Container House Built with Cob

Living in a tiny container house may not be for everyone. In a country where the average house size is 2400 square feet, most people could not imagine being in 160 sq. ft. or less. But creating a comfy, functional container home became an obsession for one person. Christoph Kesting, the creator of The Container…

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Tiny Loft Apartment in Italy by R3architetti

In 2013 the designers at R3Architetti in Turin, Italy were hired to help turn this shop into a beautiful tiny loft apartment for a young professional who wanted a simple living space. The lower level of this tiny apartment is designed for living and working. It includes the kitchen which unfortunately we don’t get to…

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200 Sq. Ft. Backyard Tiny House

We estimate this backyard tiny house has almost 200 sq. ft. of space inside. A reader, who sent the photos in, says it’s about 10′ x 20′ which looks about right. I don’t have that much information on this but this was probably really affordable to build. The design isn’t the best because there’s no dedicated…

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226 Sq. Ft. Refugio Modern Prefab Tiny Cabin

Right now I’m excited to show you an expandable 226 sq. ft. modern prefab tiny cabin. It’s a tiny housing design concept created in Chile called Refugio by FabriHome. Additional modules can be added to increase the space if you wanted to. According to Small House Bliss, the Refugio starts at about $20,600 in USD. 226 Sq. Ft.…