A while back I told you about a tiny house community dedicated to homeless people in Olympia, WA called Quixote Village.
As a part of LaMar Alexander’s Off Grid Tiny House Design Contest for 2014 a contestant submitted a design inspired by the affordable tiny homes at Quixote Village.
The village consists of 30 tiny cottages. And it all started out as a tent camp for the homeless.
Today there’s a vegetable garden and community building with showers, laundry facilities, communal kitchen, dining space, and more.
200 Sq. Ft. Solar Quixote Cottage Cabin Design
I encourage you to enjoy the rest of the tour of this simple DIY 10′ x 20′ tiny cottage below:
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This 280 sq. ft. solar tiny cabin design is part of LaMar’s tiny house design contest.
It’s designed by Adam who has plans of building his own 14’x14′ cabin to live in.
It will use solar panels to power the lighting inside.
And propane for cooking, heat and heating water.
Adam’s 280 Sq. Ft. Off Grid Cabin Design
Go ahead and enjoy the full 3D tour below:
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A chest solar refrigerator or freezer might be a great way for you to save space (and energy) in your tiny house kitchen.
This type of fridge is great for tiny homes on wheels. (It’s already been proven on sailboats, hasn’t it?)
A small chest style fridge can save you space because it’s a it opens upward (see below).
This means you can design it so it can be installed right into your kitchen counter.
And you can also run them on a 12 volt battery system.
I almost forgot to mention that they’re VERY energy efficient and can even run on a solar panel!
I encourage you to enjoy the video tour then discuss using this type of refrigerator in tiny houses in the comments below:
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If you like tiny homes on foundations then the SOLETA might interest you.
It’s a zero energy tiny house created by Catalin Butmalai of the Justin Capra Foundation for Invention in Romania.
The house is on display at the United States Embassy in Bucharest.
Not only does it power itself thanks to solar and wind, but it can also be managed with your smartphone.
It’s 48 square meters downstairs and 9 square meters up in the loft.
That translates to 516 square feet downstairs and 96 square feet upstairs.
So 612 square feet in total living space without including the outside deck space.
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Solar & Wind Powered Tiny House with Smart Ventilation System
Images: Soleta.ro
I encourage you to enjoy the complete tour (including video!) below:
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I thought you would also enjoy this tiny house poem video by Carla Schwartz.
It’s a simple collection of photo memories in Claude von Roesgen’s tiny solar houseboat that you can see in this post.
The little houseboat is named TinySol, “the wake with the solar tiny houseboat!”
And it earns the name with its unique solar roof panels (check them out here).
Photo Credit Carla Schwartz via YouTube
I encourage you to enjoy the video poem below then share your favorite line from it in the comments when you’re done:
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I’m so excited to show you this solar powered modified Tumbleweed Epu tiny house on wheels.
As you can tell it’s been slightly modified. First with the barn style roof, different sized windows, larger front door and open porch.
If you study the Epu plans real quick you’ll notice that the interior was left almost the same. They just changed a few things a little here and there but the layout is basically the same.
Photo Credit Solar Living Institute via Tumbleweed Houses
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This tiny house design by Claude von Roesgen not only has a roof made out of solar panels…
But it also doubles as a pontoon (actually tri-toon) houseboat. The home has two configurations: (1) to be attached onto a utility trailer or (2) a pontoon boat which I’ll show you below. So can we legitimately call this an amphibious tiny house? Another interesting feature is the home’s built-in solar roof.
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An Amphibious Tiny House? From Wheels to Pontoons… And It Has A Solar Roof!
Tiny House with a Solar Roof
They actually used the solar panels as roofing for the house. This is the first time I’ve seen it done this way and I really like it. See what I mean in the photos below:
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This tiny solar house was designed and built by the Minnesota Renewable Energy Society. I found them on Facebook not long ago and wanted to share their tiny home with you because it has three Silicon Energy PV modules, solar air heat, and even solar hot water.
The SIP (Structural Insulated Panels) came from The Chuba Company who you can also find on Facebook. If you’re not familiar with SIPs, check out this post. A company called Applied Energy Innovations also helped with the construction of this tiny house. It’s 8′ x 16′ and has additional storage in the back to store power with batteries. There’s also extra room there for hot water storage and any other extra systems.
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Tiny Solar House on Wheels: Passive Solar Designed THOW Built with SIPs by Minnesota Renewable Energy Society
Photo Credit Minnesota Renewable Energy Society
This solar tiny house was made possible thanks to Laura Cina, Joel Cina, Chris Burrington, Timothy Pendergast, Larissa Starr Maranell, Andrew Steven Richardson, The Chuba Company and Applied Energy Innovations.
Please enjoy the rest of this tiny home below:
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