If you’re a regular visitor here to Tiny House Talk, you’re most likely already familiar with Deek. He builds micro homes in his backyard most of the time for $200 or less. Most recently he shows us how to make our own stained glass windows for a $1 or less. Recently he held a sold…
Now here’s a micro guesthouse that makes ultimate use of it’s tiny space. At just 68-square-feet, it’s incredible what the owner was able to pack in there. I don’t know about you, but I found this tiny house to be simple yet genius and it looks like it might have been relatively inexpensive to build. Anyway, this…
Article by Laura LaVoie During my research for topics to share with my fellow Tiny House Enthusiasts, I came across this blog post by Emily Badger at The Atlantic Cities. Here Emily shares a conversation she had with Tiny House author Mimi Zeiger. In their conversation, Zeiger offers several psychological profiles of people who love…
If you’ve been wanting a tiny house on a trailer to call your own, and you don’t like the idea of climbing a ladder up to a sleeping loft, then this one might be yours. This particular model is being used as an office and was built for a customer by Hornby Island Caravans. Ian and…
In this episode of Make Magazine with Tiny Yellow House Deek shows you how to make your own stained glass for no cash! So it’s not REALLY stained glass but it’s how to achieve the same sort of look and feel for much cheaper and many times for free with what you might have laying…
Article by Laura LaVoie Off Beat Spaces shows how designer James Hong took a 500 square foot New York aparatment from rundown to luxury by repurposing items and reimagining spaces. This video shows in only a couple of minutes what one designer could do to create an amazingly modern space while staying within what he…
Today on USA Today the Associated Press announced that New York City is requesting developers to design studio apartments 300 square feet or smaller. The city believes these tiny homes could be a solution to growing population and the need for affordable housing, especially for singles and two-person households, according to the article. The mayor,…
This is our top 10 shipping container tiny houses. When it comes to tiny living, shipping container tiny houses are a great option because they’re inexpensive, usually recycled, and extremely durable. This means that by turning one into your home you’re helping the environment by using something that already exists as a shelter, you’re saving…
Meet Tracy Metro and her lush 560 square foot houseboat that she and her husband live in full-time. She’s the designer on I Live With My Mom and she calls her small houseboat the Metro Retro. Tracy and her husband bought the boat and it had a challenging layout, so she completely changed it up…
Meet Barron Harrington. He’s a retired man who decided to build a treehouse 25 feet into the air in his backyard. He wanted to do it without injuring the tree and with a small footprint. So he went with a simple 8′ by 10′ design. You can see a sketch of the floor plan below.…
