This is the story of Brian and Sky and the small house rehab they have been working on.
You may remember them from their Wandering On Wheels Tiny House. You can see how they’ve taken what they learned with their tiny house project, and turned it into this 1950s small house rehab. Who knows what they’ll do next! Follow them on their Instagram @bluecutt.
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This is the story of how a 23-year-old went tiny his own way using a 1991 32-foot Georgie Boy Motorhome that he bought for $1,800 and proceeded to renovate.
The end result is an affordable, mobile, and cozy motorhome that was built at a price that’s hard very hard to beat (a total cost of about $5,000). What do you think? Could a motorhome renovation be worth it? Here’s how Riley sees it.
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This is the story of an old Airstream travel trailer rehabbed into a beautiful and retro hair salon on wheels. We found the story via Mobile Home Living, Reddit, and Imgur.
Yes – it’s an Airstream trailer that was gutted and then renovated into a mobile hair salon.
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Images via Imgur
This is the story of a 30-foot camper renovation that cost a total of $5,000 to build!
Have you ever considered renovating a travel trailer as an affordable alternative to a newly-built tiny house?
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Images © @madefreeco
This Pop Up Trailer to Teardrop Camper Project is a guest post by Ryan Parks
Alex,
After following your site and much pressure from my wife and friends I thought I would go ahead and send you pictures of our tear drop camper build.
It was built on top of a salvaged pop up camper trailer that I was able to acquire from a friend (his wife was grateful to see it gone). We cleaned up the old trailer and painted it up nice.
We opted to draw out our own plans after looking at multiple drawings on line and looking at different types of tear drops.
Almost all materials were acquired from RV salvage yards (door, side window and roof vent). We initially wired it up and installed a breaker panel for use in camping facilities that provide electricity but after more thought we went ahead and bit the bullet and set it up to use solar power as well if we decide to park it in a primitive camp site.
The interior was finished using cedar from a sauna that I had removed from a house.
We also have it set up for water. Again we tried to use as much salvaged and recycled materials as possible. We used an old stainless mixing bowl for a sink!
Your site is an excellent source of ideas and information. I almost wish I hadn’t built this one because my wife and I would love to build a “bigger” tiny house!
Again, thank you for having this site available for all of us that enjoy the smaller things in life.
Ryan and Debbie Parks
Davenport, IA
Images © Ryan and Debbie Parks
Earlier this year I showed you Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser’s 603 sq. ft. modern vintage bungalow.
For a famous Hollywood person, he’s been living pretty small. And the property is located in the heart of Hollywood.
I think you’ll like looking at this little cottage because it has some interesting and unique space saving strategies, like a bed lift, for example.
Earlier this year Vincent listed the 603 sq. ft., 1 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom home for sale with an asking price of $808,000.
According to Zillow, it sold on 10/16/14 for a price of $650,000. He had bought it for $547,000 10 year prior.
And just in case you haven’t seen it, go ahead and take the tour below. His home has some great space saving design ideas inside. And from the outside, it looks relatively ‘normal’. Please enjoy and re-share. Thank you.
Images © Rodeo Realty
Tim Seggerman, an architect and builder, found this abandoned Brooklyn home in 1987 when it was put up for auction and ended at a price of $140,000.
It had been left abandoned for 20 years and was in complete shambles. But since he is a carpenter and builder he knew he could fix it.
To buy it he needed to put 10% down ($14,000) which was his entire life savings at the time. Boldly, he went for it anyway. From 1987 until today the house has made quite the comeback thanks to Tim’s ingenuity.
One of the interesting things to learn from Seggerman and his Brooklyn house project is how his home has evolved over the years just as he has. His house is always changing with him according to his needs.
Even though this isn’t a tiny house, I believe you’ll enjoy and learn a lot from this project (and video) below.
Images © Faircompanies
Hi Alex (and Tiny House Talk readers), I know you’re not really about trailers, but I thought you might like to see the “tiny house” I built a couple years ago.
The original framing was rotten, so I took it all the way down to the floorboards and built it up new, into a comfortable little traveling home. I take it on month-long trips, and may soon be moving into it for a longer period when my “big house” is sold. There is quite a community of vintage trailer folks, and next week I’m off to the big Pismo Beach Vintage Trailer Rally, where 300 of us will open up our trailers to visitors and fellow enthusiasts for the weekend.
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Images © Gary W.
