Since I am spending some time in Detroit, Michigan for the winter I decided to reach out to my cousin, Charlie Zink, who blogs about his adventures biking around the streets of Detroit and taking photos of the interesting things he finds there.
Charlie comes across quite a few amazing gems on his adventures so I asked if he had ever seen tiny or small houses in the city.
His search for tiny spaces yielded some pretty neat results. I thought I would share two of them with you today.
One appears to be a crudely made shelter and the other a small abandoned building that may have some use in the future. Scroll down to see more.
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Photo by Charlie Zink
I encourage you to check out the rest of Charlie’s Detroit tiny homes below:
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A while back I introduced you to the first tiny house that has made it to ESPN. The folks behind it have definitely not stopped there. Their quest for snow (powder) has continued. Imagine living and traveling in a tiny house with more than just you… How about a total of five people?
This video-based post shows you the trials and tribulations of living in a 112-square-foot tiny house on the road. And they’re towing with an older truck and what it’s like to not have 100% reliability on the road. You’ll also see how they negotiate and figure out where to park the tiny house for the night so they can get rest. But ultimately their goal is to get some powder. Meaning the best ski possible.
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A Quest for Powder Tiny House!
Photo Credit YouTube/OutdoorResearch
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I had the opportunity to speak with Alex from right here at Tiny House Talk the other day. We had a great conversation and he asked a lot of great questions. Some of the things he asked got me thinking about where this all started and just exactly how we got to a point in our lives where building and living in a tiny house seemed like the right decision.
Matt and I have been together a long time – nearly 18 years. We met in college and we were 19 and 20 when we started dating. It’s funny because a lot of people want to know how the two of us can live and work together but we just don’t think about it like that. We like spending time with each other so it just comes naturally. We have always had very complimentary dreams. Those dreams didn’t always include a tiny house; especially since we didn’t even know what a tiny house was back then, but they always included a desire to live in a more extraordinary way.
When I think back on it, I realize that the tiny house idea was really not that far from some of our earlier yearnings for adventure. Maybe it is possible that the concept was always in our DNA but until we discovered the tiny house movement we just didn’t realize it.
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Photo by Laura LaVoie
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Have you met Collin and Joanna before? They’re a young couple who built and lived in their own Tumbleweed Fencl tiny house on a trailer. They bought the plans, ordered the trailer, built the house, and moved in!
But now they’re very happy to announce that they’re starting a family so they will be upsizing to a home that will be better for them to raise a child in. So that means their gorgeous little house is up for sale. The tiny house has sold but you can still see it below!
This is one of the most elegantly designed tiny houses that I’ve seen to date. They used Jay Shafer’s Tumbleweed Fencl building plans to build it and they did an excellent job of decorating as you’ll see in the pictures.
It’s a 130-square-foot design meant to be built onto a 7’x18′ trailer. To date, we’ve featured numerous builds that have used the same plans which you can check out at the bottom of this page.
So yes – the Fencl is definitely a popular tiny home design to build and live in. So, without further adieu, here’s Collin & Joanna’s beautiful self-built tiny home…
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Collin and Joanna’s Beautiful Self-built Tumbleweed Fencl Tiny House
Photo Credit OurWeeHouse.com
Luscious, isn’t it? Wait until you go inside.. They spared no expense when it came to making this a lovely home to live in.
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This tiny house is called the Tiny HaHa House.
The owner built it for just $3,000 in materials and did nearly all of the work himself.
It’s Jay Shafer‘s XS tiny house design except it has a covered porch modification.
And they added two roof windows which I really like.
I think it has a little bit of a modern look to it too, don’t you think?
The XS is just 65-square-feet without including the upstairs sleeping loft.
The siding and roofing is corrugated aluminum, kinda like the one Jay showcases in his book.
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Photo Credits Andrew Cauthen
Carpeting was used on the interior and the interior walls seem like painted plywood panels, but I think it looks good. Modern, even.
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A few years ago, Alex did a piece on some land for sale near Dancing Rabbit Eco Village. Let’s return to Missouri to check out some of the most recent projects of this thriving intentional community. Brian Liloia goes by Ziggy and has been living at Dancing Rabbit Eco Village for nearly four years. He started his busy blog, The Year of Mud, soon after.
Ziggy has given the tiny house and natural building community a huge resource by continuing to document his construction projects through his blog. Today, hundreds of blog posts take readers step by step through his building process.
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Have you seen Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen’s 8′ x 8′ x 8′ 64-square-foot tiny house slash micro cabin? It’s made mostly out of plywood and if you’ve read his book, Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, you’ve seen pictures of it already.
They built it in Brooklyn, New York inside the old warehouse workshop you can see below. It was a prefab design done by Derek. It took him two days to create the prefab kit and 5 hours to put it together with 3 people. There are all sorts of cool designs inside and out include a pop up window, lantern and a voodoo owl.
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Diedricksen Bros Build 8×8 Micro Cabin
Photo Courtesy of Derek Diedricksen
When you go inside there’s an Ikea chair, 70s carpet, and a custom-made triangular bed.
Video tour of the 8′ by 8′ tiny prefab house from Deek
Length: 2:45
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Jay Shafer felt overwhelmed by the 4,000 square foot home he grew up in back in Iowa.
Time, energy and resources were spent maintaining space that added very little to their lives on the whole.
This distaste for wasted space emerged as a creative influence when Shafer was in his 20s.
After college, he started making blueprints of tiny homes just for fun.
Exploring how space is used, brainstorming how to use it more efficiently and learning about the materialism of our culture, he decided to pursue the passion further.
One of the legal difficulties he found right away was zoning laws that restrict how big anyone living establishment must be.
In most states, to be considered a house a building has to measure at least 220 square feet.
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Photo Courtesy of Tumbleweed Houses
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Say hello to the Glam Pod over in England.
They made it for people who need a home, but are not yet ready for a large one.
So for now, they can put the Glam Pod in their parents or friend’s backyard.
It takes 8 to 10 weeks to build and is delivered on a small trailer.
This tiny house can be connected to utilities and water.
It is made out of 95% timber.
The exterior siding on the house is English cedar.
Insulation exceeds building code requirements, and the design inspiration came from Malaysia.
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Photo & Video Credit Sandi Thompson
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