Today lots of people are looking for alternative ways to live without mortgages and it turns out that there are several ways to do it. Tiny houses on trailers aren’t the only way to go. And with enough labor and the right materials you can create a very lovely home. The folks at WPICreative took…
I just got an interesting message on Facebook from a reader who jokingly suggested there should be a tinyhousemingle.com so people like us who are interested in tiny houses can find dates with similar interests. Haha, there’s a question I’ve never been asked before! But really.. why not? At first, I couldn’t think of anything so…
Would you want to live in a 252-square-feet tiny apartment? I would! If only they were more common.. And this well designed. This particular apartment studio in San Francisco has a lot of features that a tiny house has. For example, an upstairs sleeping loft to save precious space on the first level of the…
I got this email from one of our wonderful readers, Teri, who’s getting ready to build a Tumbleweed Fencl tiny house to live in. She’s got a 95-year-old mother who is excited for her and they’d both love to get the chance to tour a little house preferably a Tumbleweed in the Los Angeles area. So I…
I just ran into this bunkhouse tiny house and thought I’d share it with you. The owner of the little cabin, Sue, runs a blog called A Porch of My Own hence the name of this post. She had the shell of the cabin built by a company that delivered it right to her property…
I’ve got a question for you: would you ever consider running a tiny business on wheels? With farmer’s markets growing in popularity and people turning back to the simple life to find happiness and meaning it may be a viable idea. Take Kara Rosenlund for example. She’s converted an old travel trailer into a mobile…
Most of us or at least I think most of us want a tiny house to live in full-time so we can live life on our own terms. At least that’s why I was motivated to initially look into little homes.. How about you? And I was able to achieve a lot of the same…
This small rustic cabin was recently featured on NY Magazine and Apartment Therapy. The materials used were reclaimed from a barn that’s over 100 years old. It really doesn’t get much simpler than this. There’s an outhouse with a composting toilet and an outdoor water heater in case you want a warm shower. When the…
Just a few days ago I received an email from my friend Ryan who blogs about tiny houses at The Tiny Life. He basically announced that after 3 and a half years of writing and talking about tiny homes that he is finally going to build one for himself to live in as his home.…
By Laura LaVoie “Wow, you live in something that small?” “Oh, I could never do that!” “I would live in a tiny house, but I can’t because of all my books.” We’ve all heard the negativity on the internet. It isn’t just part of the tiny house community but all over there is an epidemic…
