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210 Sq. Ft. Modern Treehouse Tiny Home

This 210 square feet modern treehouse tiny home by Baumraum architects. The reason it was built was for a group of scouts in the area so they can camp and stay in it on the almke camp site. Before you even get up to the cabin using the staircase you notice there are two micro structures…

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NYU Professor Uses Micro Cabin to Grade Papers

Deek just emailed me about this micro cabin ‘study pod’ that he just finished for an NYU professor who plans on using it in his property in New Jersey so I wanted to share it with you here. It’s a peaceful place where he can grade papers and read. And it completely opens up to nature.…

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Architect Envisions Container Tiny Homes for Simple Living

I can’t help being excited about shipping container tiny homes especially this one you’re about to see which is in Southern Portugal. I guess it’s the bright color that attracted me to it at first. Then the modern flair the structure has that made me want to share it with you. What a beaut! The architect Arnold Aarssen from Studio Arte envisions a…

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Tiny House Nation TV Co-Host Zack Giffin on Tonight

Since we’re finally so blessed to have an entire TV show dedicated to tiny houses (yes- I’m talking about the Tiny House Nation TV Show on tonight 7/9/14 at 10pm est) I’m also excited about Zack Giffin (co-host of the show) sharing his adventures with us from the last few months (and maybe even years).…

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Tiny House Furniture: Sofa to Bunk Bed in 14 Seconds

If you’re thinking about living in a tiny house or even just downsizing to a smaller house, you’ve probably been thinking about space-saving tiny house furniture… And today I wanted to show you this sofa that converts into a bunk bed in just a few seconds. It’s a foreign product that’s probably really expensive and completely…

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Couple Rightsize into DIY 520 Sq. Ft. Whimsical Cottage

Straight out of a storybook this sweet little whimsical cottage is a dream come true for Sue Corl and her husband Ron. The cottages’ design, look and feel was based on Sue’s childhood dream of having a tiny cottage just like Rudolph, Hermey & Yukon Cornelius (from the Classic cartoon Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer). Thus the…

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We Need Your Help To Make Tiny Houses Legal

Part of the problems most of us face with tiny housing is that there are laws and zoning that prevent most of us from achieving our tiny dreams because we’re forced to build larger than we really need. In many cases, we’ve found our own ‘loopholes’ that have allowed many of us to live tiny…

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Tiny House Nation TV Show: Wednesday Nights

Just in case you’re not aware yet I wanted to let you know that the new Tiny House Nation TV show premiers this Wednesday July 9th, at 10 PM EST on the FYI Network. After that you can catch it every Wednesday night for a new episode. Pretty awesome, right? The hosts, John Weisbarth and…

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Tiny DIY Rooftop Office in Paris Doubles for Leisure Too

Anytime the folks over at Faircompanies publish a video I get excited because they’ve always got something new, exciting and interesting to share when it comes to living big in tiny spaces. Today I’m showing you a video tour of a small business in Paris who turned a rooftop elevator engine room into an amazing little office workspace…

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30 Year Old Storage Unit Turned into Amazing Micro Home

When there’s a shortage of affordable housing people are forced into creativity and the solutions that these situations help create usually turn out to be pretty amazing. Like this 387 square feet storage unit turned into a micro home by architect Karin Matz based in Stockholm. For 30 years the unit had been used for…