Every week I like to show you a different option for tiny house plans. Many of my new favorites are coming from a company called Humble Homes, including the McG Tiny House Design with a staircase to the loft. I’ve been in touch with the owner, Niall, and he’s always creating some outstanding designs. The…
April is a graduate student in English at the University of Oregon. In this video she’s interviewed on her decision to live in a tiny house on wheels. Oregon Student Living the Tiny Life At 19’x8′ the home is just 130-square-feet including the sleeping loft. It’s got a tiny covered porch and you walk right…
Think you can live in, work in, and share a small apartment? That’s what I do with my 500-square-foot apartment that I’m showing you today. Small Apartment Design for Live/Work I took my apartment’s dimensions, design and layout and did my best to match it. Then I made some slight improvements that I thought would…
In the tiny house community we are often talking about the various building codes around the country, and the world, and how they affect tiny spaces. Tiny house bloggers often get asked the question “do you know the building codes in [my city]?” Building codes are so location specific that they can vary greatly mile…
I just got home from a week long South Western vacation. The entire week was topped off by a visit to Frank Lloyd Wright’s winter home, Taliesin West. I started studying Frank Lloyd Wright in college. It was something that Matt and I had in common before we started dating a billion years ago. While…
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the LumenHaus, a small, energy-efficient tiny house prototype by Virginia Tech. With its very high-tech features, it’s a neat example, but its $450-650,000 price tag puts it out of the reach of most of us. But another university group has been focusing on designing small houses with a much,…
Here’s a tiny house I hadn’t seen before that I get to show you thanks to SpacesTV and my friend Ali. And it’s got a one of a kind way of generating free heat which I’ll show you below. It was designed and built by Yestermorrow Design Build School students. Yestermorrow Tiny House It was…
Elaine over at Tiny House Community has done a great job of organizing the 2013 Tiny House Fair at Yestermorrow Design Build School in Vermont. She just announced scholarships for the fair that she needs help funding. I’ll just let her do the talking. But I can assure you that the money she raises here…
Every so often I enjoy doing some Q&A on tiny houses and simple living. And what usually prompts me to do it is an email or question in the comments from other readers. So here’s a question I got yesterday along with my thoughts. I’d love to read through your thoughts and suggestions too. Family…
How do you handle water in a tiny house or in the city in a small apartment? Whether you are off-the-grid or using the city water system you might want to consider a water filter. This way you don’t have to buy water. If you have a well or other access to water you can…
