Tiny House Living

Couple downsizes to 129 sq. ft. home
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Video on msnbc.com: “It’s like a sailboat on wheels,” says a Colorado woman of the 129-square-foot home she shares with her husband. KUSA-TV’s Nick McGurk takes a tour of the tiny abode.

Slightly off topic but an important consideration when designing a solar system…
Slightly off topic but an important consideration when designing a solar system for your tiny house. Placing photovoltaic panels on a roof makes a lot of sense but it makes cleaning and snow removal a bit tougher than a ground mounted tracker or rack.

Cleaning Snow Off Solar Panels On A Roof | Solar Baby
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Moving our solar panels to our barn roof meant we gave up how easy they were to clean when they were on the ground in front of the house. Even I cleaned…

Relaxshacks.com: Ice Fishing Shack/Hut/Shanty Mania…. TEN very cool lil’ fishin’ cabins….
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Fun Tiny Design – An Adirondack Outhouse
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Occasionally people ask me (especially at cocktail parties) what I’m working on in with my private clients and of course I do not want to sound boring. I was thinking of what project recently would be the least boring and…

Pedal-powered Shanty Boat | This Tiny House
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The 18’6 x 6′ Escargot is a pedal-powered boat designed by Phil Thiel. I absolutely love the idea of this small, easy-to-build shanty boat as a house. 

I Can Really Cook in my Tiny Kitchenette
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Guest Post by Heather Neilson We are nearing the four month mark of using our basement kitchenette while we are remodeling the upstairs kitchen/dining/family room areas. At first down sizing to such a small area seemed like an impossible task for a family of six, with a mom who LOVES to cook. 

Tiny House Drafting
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Although we are not too familiar with the either company, the website room planner allows anyone to draft up a room, apartment, or even a tiny home for free!

The Tiny Life , Archive » Karlsson Tiny House
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a great Scandinavian Tiny House, The Karlsson House is a very small summer cottage…

Sarana House Interior
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The interior of Sarana House, one of two “tiny houses” we currently occupy, is finally complete enough to be photographed! There are still details to attend to – finishing all of the trim, getting one more light fixture in place, and connecting our propane boat heater – but we are happily enjoying…

Olson Kundig Architects – Projects – Sol Duc Cabin
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Providing secure shelter for every season, this steel-clad 350 sf fishing cabin on stilts can be completely shuttered when the owner is away. The cabin’s rugged patina and raw materiality respond to the surrounding wilderness while its verticality provides a safe haven during occasional floods from …

episode 14 the one about the nailing procedure of a wall frame with a window
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This is the process of nailing a wall frame together for a micro house. there is a procedure to this in order to connect all the framing members to get the…

Striking Silver: ‘Airstream Sterling’ Revisits Classic Trailer
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Striking Silver: ‘Airstream Sterling’ Revisits Classic Trailer

Colorado couple opts for tiny home in world of McMansions
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A Colorado couple downsized their home significantly. The elbow room is modest, to say the least.

Relaxshacks.com: A micro ice fishing shack- The “Fort On Feet” part two….
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» New Zealand Tree House w/ Bath Tub & Draw Bridge Solar Burrito Blog
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The tree bach was built by a group of friends in Palmerston North, New Zealand. It was constructed largely in the dark of the night as most of the builders had full time jobs during the day. It consists largely of donated materials or from rubbish laying around Jono’s parents farm. 

Thoreauvian simple living: unelectrified, timeless tiny home
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Seven years ago Diana and Michael Lorence moved to a 12-foot-square home without electricity in the coastal mountains of Northern California. 

episode 13 3 walls up
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This is the house starting to take shape .lots in store for 2012 subscribe for all the goodness and see the project site at http://kevinsmicrohomestead.wordp/…

2012 Design Challenge
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I rarely see any houses on this site with a hand railing at the entry let alone a Murphy bed type sleeping arrangement or a bed that is a dual purpose design.

Saturday Tiny House Videos | Tiny House Design
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Tiny house videos are better than saturday morning cartoons. Below are some tiny house & simple living videos we spotted online this past week.

Window borders and the painting of them…
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The other night, my dad and I went to Lowes and choose the paint for my door (yellow, of course) and the window borders we’ve started making (teal). I’m happy to report…

Tiny House in a Landscape
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Today’s photo is taken by Trey Ratcliff from Stuck In Customs and is titled Little Elves, Little Waterfall.

Pepper & Tumbleweed: A perfect combo
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Our first workshops for 2012 are just around the corner and you may have noticed some new names & faces amongst our crew. Let’s get acquainted with one…

Floating Beach Hut Made From Driftwood
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Sitting in remote marshland in the UK near Norfolk, this floating beach hut measures just 16.5ft long and 6ft wide. It was constructed over 50 years ago…

Shedworking: Treehouses: Small Spaces in Nature
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Earthbag/SuperAdobe House Construction
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Visit: http://www.mylittlehomestead.com/ “Moving from the City to the Country” Building a room/structure with continuos sandbags.

The Beer Moth
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Take a look at this conversion located in Inverness-shire, Scotland dubbed The Beer Moth. Surpassing it’s intended use as a fire service truck, it now houses…

episode 12 wall 3 A door and a window
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Here is wall 3, answers to quiz in episode 11 and a bonus question . enjoy. Subscribe and think about the spring class hands on builders school let me know i…

12 Weeks Into Our Tiny House Adventure
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It is hard to believe it has been nearly 3 months since we moved our second tiny house to Sarana Park. We have just over 260 square feet of living space with both tiny houses, and we are sharing that space with several pets. Our sleeping quarters are in a tiny house I purchased last year, and…

Creative Tiny House – The Cowboy Cottage
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This week’s Creative Tiny House comes from Tiny Texas Houses, a Texas-based tiny house building company. Their amazing little homes are built almost completely

Tiny Earthbag Homes
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“Constructing an earthbag home is considered by many to be the most inexpensive method of building a home simply because the material is free and usually already onsite. The major cost associated…

Cave home in Loire is charming bioclimatic troglodyte house
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In the Saumur region of France there are over a thousand miles of underground tunnels and thousands of caves, known as “troglodytes”, homes, hotels, restaura…

A ‘tiny home’ builder
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SLAB CITY – When the economic meltdown hit the country, Larry Redford lost everything back in Lincoln, Ore.“I have nothing but Social Security,” said Redford, who is 10 months from…

Sidecountry Sessions Tiny House
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If you live in a ski town, keep an eye out for a truck towing an elegant tiny house and five ski bums on the lookout for some great powder and free Wi-Fi. For six weeks, Molly Baker, Zack Griffin, Neil Provo and their videographers Sam Griffin and Andy Walbon will be road tripping around North Ameri…

Tiny House Build Along – March 2012 | Tiny House Design
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Tiny home builder Dan Louche will be hosting a Tiny House Build Along beginning in March 2012. This is a novel approach incorporating online and hands-on…

Sample Floor Plans for the 8×28 Coastal Cottage | Tiny House Design
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The Coastal Cottage is an 8′ by 28′ tiny house that can be built on or off a trailer. It features a bay window and small covered porch up front as well as…

Tiny House Living Webinar Recap
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Recap of live Tiny House Webinar from 12/29 for those of you who missed it.

2011 Top 10 Tiny House Design Posts | Tiny House Design
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At nearly 3 million page views TinyHouseDesign.com remained a very busy place in 2011. At the end of each year it’s eye-opening to look back and see which…

Tiny Earthbag Homes
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Constructing an earthbag home is considered by many to be the most inexpensive method of building a home simply because the material is free…

Lloyd’s Blog: Thomas Builds Pallet House in North Carolina
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Zyl Vardos
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Abel from Zyl Vardos recently contacted me to share his business that specializes in building high-quality vardos for people interested in living small. 

Canada’s Smallest Rental
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The building features 30 self-contained affordable furnished market rental suites or micro-lofts. Suites range from 226 – 291 sq. ft., making them the smallest in Canada.

Mini Apartment Hides Maximum Customization + Function
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Mini Apartment Hides Maximum Customization + Function

Tiny homes provide economic relief
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Pint-sized dwellings are slowly becoming primary residences.

Jim Tolpin’s Gypsy Wagons
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Over the past 20 years Jim Tolpin has built seven gypsy wagons for his customers. An accomplished author on the subject of woodworking, he has sold almost one…

Lloyd’s Blog: Keith Levy’s “Flying Tortoise” housebus in New Zealand
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Brittany’s Decorated Home
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Here are three photos of my tiny house during Christmas. To make my house festive on the outside, I installed a string of LED lights along the roofline.

Pure Salvage Living
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We would like to inform you that we have launched the www.Puresalvageliving.com website. This will incorporate the big picture of what Tiny Texas Houses has been able to accomplish over the last 6 years.

Dezeen » Blog Archive » Shore Vista Boat Dock by Bercy Chen Studio
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Dezeen is the world’s most influential online architecture and design magazine.

La Chispa Earthbag Dome
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“Sandbag construction To continue the theme of ingenious construction techniques for bioconstructors [natural builders], sacks of earth are a versatile and modern adaptation of a traditional…

The Field Lab: Christmas 2011
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15 Terrific Tiny House Projects of 2011
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I’ve seen the tiny house thrive in 2011 like none other. People behind these structures — whether a tiny home, shed, backyard office, ADU, or off-season retreat — seem to have a little Thoreau inside. Nonetheless, please keep this in mind: only about 5% of the population would ever dream to live…

4-people.org Dome
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“Last week was full of great events and hard work. The second phase has begun construction of the bedroom and begin to delineate which are the parts of the building: rooms, bathrooms, showers. …

Local couple builds 200 square feet dream home
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Resting on a trailer bed and boasting less than 200 square feet in space, the tiny house is the modern day’s best example of simple living.

Two Roundhouses with Greenhouse
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This is my second plan that’s designed specifically for building roundhouses in stages. 

Lloyd’s Blog: Great photos cordwood houses
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Pine Top Holiday Decorations
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I’ve taken some time to decorate for our first holiday season in the new place.

Oldest known Neanderthal house found in Ukraine – made from woolly mammoth bones | ouno
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Why do discoveries of ancient houses make me so happy? A 44,000 year old Neanderthal bone house has been found near Moldova in Eastern Ukraine. 

Episode 10 sheathing,housewrap,window.wmv
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Hi Micro housers this is how easy it is to get a wall ready to finnish. not a lot of material involved in a micro house. Quick and easy.

Hold Fast: Lloyd Khan
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Lloyd Kahn is truly a jack-of-all trades. With a passion for publishing and talent for explanation he pursues pretty much whatever catches his attention. 

Transformer Cupboard from Uruguay Brilliantly Hides Table and Seating for Two
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Simple yet remarkable work by designer Claudio Sibile.

Occupy Vacant Lots Project Constructs a Pre-Fab Shed for Urban Gardeners
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Students at Green Mountain College have created the open source OVaL Shed (Occupy Urban Lots Shed) for versatile urban farmers.

Han’s Mobile Shelters and Designs
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Even though squatting is illegal these days more then 1/3rd of the office spaces are empty, which is pretty embarrassing if you think of the housing problem.

“The Wolfe’s Den” Treehouse – Tiny Yellow House
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This triangular treehouse was assembled in the Catskills over two weekends, and stands as one of the larger projects Deek’s tackled for the show. His only…

Shedworking: Gemstone Eco-Pods
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Lloyd’s Blog: Old School Bus Turned Into A Tiny House
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Pan Abode Mighty Cabana
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Pan Abode of Washington state has been selling their custom cedar homes and cabin kits for nearly 60 years. They offer a wide scope of sizes and styles including cabins that range from 120 square feet to just over 700 square feet. However, Pan Abode also sells an even tinier home they call the Might.

Creative Tiny House – Off The Grid Bus on Steroids
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Keith purchased his 1977 Bedford Bus back in 2007 with the idea of living in it off-the-grid full-time. Living off the grid is nothing new to Keith. He has been…

The Crib is a Tiny Enviresponsible Shelter
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A while back, I mentioned The Crib, an enviresponsible shelter by Broadhurst Architects that can be used as a weekend cabin, backyard office, exercise studio, or guest house — you name it. Well it’s time for a short update from our last article, if you haven’t already noticed, that a 250 square-fo…

Roof wrapped and ready… and a banjo
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Today we (me, my dad and one of my sisters) started none too early with the goal of getting the synthetic roofing underlayment onto the plywood roof sheathing, and the most miraculous thing…

Free Economizer Earthbag House Plan
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Specifications: 464 sq. ft. interior, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, Footprint: 19′ x 31′ Description: This plan is designed to be compact and efficient. Most houses this size do not have as many featur…