Tiny House Living

Tiny House Living is a weekly newsletter that now comes out every Friday morning. We cover the world of tiny houses and the people that choose to live this simpler life. Each entry is a short summary that links to the original article.

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Read Now… Tiny House Living – Issue 29

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Feeling the cold begin to settle into the mountains around Los Angeles, yes it can actually snow there, the Urban Rancher works though the pain in his hands caused by days of hammering and begins to close in his cabin.

Urban Rancher Weatherproofs

Dan sent me news of the tiny house he’s building for his mom the other day and I posted news of it on Tiny House Design. I just checked back and he’s got his walls up. He’s trying to figure out how to put up the siding and roof by himself so if any builders out there want to lend him some advice I’m sure he’ll be really appreciative.

Dan’s Tiny House – Walls Framed

Some of the best tiny house design and building workshops are hosted by Jay Shafer from the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company. This past week the 2010 workshop schedule was announced. If you’ve been day dreaming about designing and building your own tiny house attending one of Jay’s workshops can really catapult your project and dreams forward. Visit the Tumbleweed website for more information.

2010 Tumbleweed Workshop Schedule

Here’s a cool concept for disaster relief housing. These little housing units are inspired by stacking cups and actually fit together just like stacked cups for easy transportation. These little units are estimated to cost about $5000 each. I’d love to see some of these manufactured for homeless shelters.

EXO HOUSE

I think this is a really well done eco-friendly garden office and I especially like the simple design. One would think that a simple box with a shed roof would be a simple thing to design but this shows how a little extra attention to the details can really set a design apart from others.

Shomera Solo

Here’s another great treehouse from the Monday Morning Treehouse series on This Tiny House. It’s the treehouse of Don Botsford in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Don actually has two treehouses on his 20-acre property which he bought back in 1975 and turned into a nature preserve.

Don Botsford’s Treehouse

It seems like you never quite know where this tiny portable hotel will show up. It’s sat on top of an ancient museum in Germany, had a view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and been on a luxury hotel in Tokyo. It’s a cool small design built originally as an installation art project by Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann.

Everland Portable Hotel

All the homes at the Solar Decathlon are impressive showcases of advanced renewable energy technology, and it looks like the German team took the first place prize with their cube-shaped surPLUShome. Congratulations to the team from Germany!

2009 Solar Decathlon Winner

Tiny house and simple living websites:

• Tiny House Blog
• Tiny House Design
• Tiny House TV
• Shedworking
• Shedblog
• Natural Homes
• Tiny House Journal
• Small House Society
• Small Living Journal
• Coming Unmoored
• Rowdy Kittens
• This Tiny House
• The Tiny Life (Map) (Forum)
• Constructing a simpler life
• Gypsy Rose Tiny House
• Green Hamlet
• Small House Style
• Building With Awareness
• Shelter Publications
• Living Large in our Little House

Tiny House Builders, Plans, And Kits

• Sonoma Shanty
• Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
• Tortoise Shell Homes
• Little House on the Trailer