I wanted to show you Big Al’s homemade camping trailer. He has nicknamed it ALVAN the camper caravan. It’s a pretty simple structure on a 8′ x 4′ trailer chasis that he ordered on eazytrailer.com.au. Once he put that together he set up a foundation right on the trailer and began framing the walls. Then…
If you’re interested in living in the mountains, there is a lot of opportunity from Boulder to Granby to Winter Park and everywhere in between. If, however, you want to scale down your square footage as well as your carbon footprint, a tiny house might be the right fit. It’s all about planning, so break…
Architect Karl Wanaselja and partner Cate Leger created a unique small house in Berkeley, California. They call it the McGee House. It consists of 104 salvaged car roofs which cover the upper side walls of the home. The inspiration behind the upper siding came from fish scales. The lower wall siding is made out of…
Some of you might already be familiar with SignaTour Campers, a small company who builds teardrop trailers in Tampa, Florida, from last year when we featured them on Tiny House Talk. Since then they have added to their fleet of micro RVs to choose from and in this post, you’ll get a brief overview of…
The thirty tiny apartments at 18 West Hastings Street are ideally located for young professionals who otherwise couldn’t afford to live downtown in notoriously expensive Vancouver, Canada. On the flipside, this new residential complex is located in a downtown neighborhood known for low incomes and high crime rates. The Burns Block building that now offers…
In late 2009 the downturn in the economy dramatically changed the overall substance of 30+ year business professional, Brenda Curtiss’s life. In her words, “Even though I had always dreamed about and somewhat planned for the day I could be ‘free’ to full-time in a small RV or camper van, the need to do so…
Greg Johnson of the Small House Society published a video on how city housing codes influence tiny house living. In a 4 minute video he covers a viewers question, “where can you legally put a tiny house on wheels?” Greg does a great job of explaining the problems we face in addition to different ways…
The Explorer Boxes are a hybrid of teardrop trailers and easy-to-set-up tent campers. Designed and developed by Compact Camping Concepts, LLC, they’re campers that you can easily build yourself. The company has developed an 85-page set of building plans so that you can build your own tent trailer. They’re small in size and lightweight so…
This simple, Japanese-inspired tiny house can also be described as a zen cabin in the woods. I’ve always wanted to use that word in the description of one of the featured homes, shacks, cabins, or retreats here. Looking back, I’d have to say that the tree-house/mushroom/dome cabin I featured a while back was also kind…
I wanted you to meet someone who decided to turn to become a van dweller in his 1991 Volkswagen Westfalia. Kidding about the down by the river part but seriously: he decided to move into his van while still working at his job. His reason behind it is because one of his dreams has been…
