Carina (Dirtbag Minimal on YouTube) built this spacious and minimalist DIY tiny house on wheels with no previous building experience!
It was a housing solution for her that fit into the gap between renting and buying a full-sized home, and another advantage of building a THOW was that she could move it wherever she wanted (as long as she could find a parking spot for it!).
Building her own 10 Ft. Wide Tiny Home on Wheels
Image © Dirtbag Minimal
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The Catalina by Modern Tiny Living is a luxury tiny house on wheels designed to answer one of the most common requests in the tiny home world: a ground-floor bedroom. Built by the Columbus, Ohio-based builder known for high-end craftsmanship, this model proves you can have both accessibility and style in a compact footprint.
What sets the Catalina apart is its spa-like bathroom featuring a full soaking tub, pebble tile work, a Nature’s Head composting toilet, and a washer/dryer combo. The gourmet kitchen includes an oven, cooktop, full-sized refrigerator, and custom cabinetry. A loft above provides a second sleeping area, storage space, or even a home office.
While MTL offers full customization on colors and finishes, the showroom model features a stunning sage green, grey, and rich wood tone palette that breaks away from the all-white farmhouse trend. Let us know what you think in the comments!
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Images courtesy of Modern Tiny Living
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This is the story of Jed and Sandy’s full-time van life. The couple initially sold their home in North Carolina, quit their jobs, and downsized into a 30-foot travel trailer. After traveling in the trailer, they decided to downsize further into a van to access more remote locations during their travels.
Their DIY extended Sprinter conversion features a functional layout with plenty of built-in storage, a kitchen, cabinets, and a bathroom with recirculating shower and composting toilet. Today, they continue traveling as full-time nomads.
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DIY Extended Sprinter Van Conversion
The extended Sprinter provides more length than a standard van while maintaining maneuverability. This balance of space and mobility suits their goal of reaching places a larger travel trailer couldn’t go.
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This is a sustainable small house with solar-power and rainwater-collection near Melbourne, Australia that you can rent on Airbnb.
It’s a sustainable off-grid home on a secluded 20 acres with rainwater collection, solar panels, batteries, a Rota-Loo composting toilet system, and eleven cows on the property. How would you like to live in a setting like this?
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Sustainable Off-Grid Small House with Solar and Rainwater System in Victoria, Australia
Photos via Robert/Airbnb
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This is a family of three’s 28ft off-grid tiny house on wheels with a 12ft loft-to-loft catwalk built for them by Bantam Built Homes.
It features a large living room, full kitchen, bathroom, and two lofts connected by the 12ft catwalk with a safety rail. Very cool!
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Family’s Double Loft Tiny House on Wheels with Loft-to-Loft Catwalk
Images © Bantam Built Homes
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This is Michael and Michelle’s Down to Earth Getaway, an Off-Grid Tiny House in Hawaii!
The couple currently lives in their sustainable tiny that runs off solar power, a rainwater catchment system, a composting toilet and goats, but they are also branching out and renting their off-grid space for vacations. Cool!
My husband Michael and I are living in a 240 sq ft tiny house on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. We are college students finishing up our senior year of college. My husband built the tiny house just before we got married last summer. We would love to tell our story though your website and talk about our up and coming tiny house business on the Big Island of Hawaii. We’ve been living in the house for just over 6 months now. We have learned a lot from trial and error but feel that we have a lot to share. Oh also we live with a heard of about 20 goats. Seriously, we have a lot to share.
Scroll below for pictures, videos and our interview with the couple.
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Down To Earth Getaway: Off-Grid Tiny House in Hawaii
Images via Down To Earth Getaway
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I think there’s a general consensus on Tiny House Talk that Abel Zimmerman Zyl, of Zyl Vardos, is a master tiny house craftsman. Therefore, we should all be excited for his newest build, Belinda’s Little Bird!
The home features stunning french doors, no loft, tons of storage and a beautiful tiny Hobbit wood-burning stove. He finished it just recently, thus it’s snow-covered exterior! Abel said the house is now on a farm in Pennsylvania. Perfect!
Related: No-loft Zyl Vardos Build: The Dewdrop Tiny House
Newest Zyl Vardos Build: Belinda’s Little Bird
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This off grid tiny cabins retirement story is a guest post by Michael Scheer – share your tiny house story here too!
My name is Michael and about 5 years ago I wanted an off-grid place for vacation and retirement. Like many others, I am tired of bills, bills, bills and knew I would never have enough money to retire on unless I became debt-free and my home was paid off.
A couple of years passed and as things happened I had a friend who went through a divorce (I recently moved out of my ex-girlfriends home 8 months prior) and he needed help monetarily in order to buy a home and asked me to move in. The move cut my rent in half and enabled me along with my bonus check to purchase some land I found in northern AZ at about 6500 ft elevation. Summers are mild with highs in the low 90’s high 80’s and winters are in the 40’s and 50’s with light snow. I picked up 6 acres for less than $4k.
He Built Two Off Grid Tiny Cabins for his Retirement
Images © Michael Scheer
Months later I decided to put in my first cabin, I bought a 10×18 from weatherking (apx. $4200.00), it was just a shell.
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If you’re thinking about getting a composting toilet for your tiny house (or any size house, really) then read this first.
You can always check out the top 5 composting toilets we recommend for tiny houses. But sometimes nothing beats doing it yourself. It’s cheaper, it’s more rewarding, and you’ll appreciate it more because you built it! And yes, you can still keep the smell away. All it takes is sawdust.
It’s a relatively simple project and won’t cost you more than $60 in materials to complete. You might even be able to find scrap materials and build your own composting toilet for free. That sounds better than spending up to $1,750 on composting toilets like the ones I showed you here, right?
There’s nothing wrong with any of the composting toilets on the market. In fact, the ones I mentioned here are pretty awesome. It’s just that not everybody has that kind of money to spend. So why not consider a simple solution like this if you and your family are open to it? Especially if you’re into carpentry already, right? Or if you’re looking to get started, this might be a great first project. So just for inspiration, I wanted to share one of our readers, Nicole’s, DIY Humanure Composting Toilet Project. And I’ve provided resources on how to build your own at the bottom of this post in case you’re inspired to build one too. Enjoy!
Woman’s DIY Humanure Composting Toilet Project
Images © Nicole Martin
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