Tiny House Living

These amazing little buildings were created by students of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and if you’re ever in the area of Taliesin West you can take the Desert Shelter Tour and get a close-up look. I first saw this on Shedworking.

Taliesin Shelters

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
• UrbanRancher
• Laptop and a Rifle
• (Dan’s) Tiny House Project

Tiny House Builders, Plans, and Kits

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

Please feel free to send me suggestions for these growing lists.

Here is a small factory-built modular two-story home. It was created by Davis Studio Architecture and Design which was founded by Jonathan Davis and Architect Mary Jo Davis. In addition to having been constructed from green building materials it features a photovoltaic solar array, rain water collection system, composting toilet, and can even be secured by closing up all the shuttered openings. Read more about this tiny off-the-grid home.

This is a model of a house currently under construction in Colorado by Ann Holley, an Alfred University graduate student. Alfred University is located in upstate New York and has a great graduate art program. The house has been built with sustainability in mind and will be off-the-grid and powered by wind and solar. Read more about it on Tiny House Blog, RowdyKittens, and the ProtoHaus Project website.

This is a clever way to reuse an old shipping container. The original wall panels have been cut out and replaced with windows. I suspect this would not work in all climates but is definitely in innovate way to break free of the metal box aesthetic most shipping container homes seem stuck with.

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Jay Shafer left Tuesday May, 26 2009 on his Coast to Coast tour pulling the newly built Fencl Tumbleweed Tiny House on a cross country open house. By the end of the week he’ll be in New York. To see the construction photos visit Tiny House Journal. Photo provided by Grant and was taken when Jay stopped in Chicago. Thanks Grant!

Also see:

• Jay’s Fencl in Iowa City
• Jay’s Fencl in Chicago
• Two Words – TINY HOUSE
• Tumbleweed Tiny House Blog

Jay will have 14 open houses and and several workshops along the way. Here is the schedule:

• Tue May 26 – Reno, NV 6:00 pm
• Wed May 27 – Salt Lake, UT 6:00 pm
• Thu May 28 – Cheyenne, WY 6:00 pm
• Sat May 30 – Boulder, CO 5:30 pm
• Tue June 2 – Omaha, NE 6:00 pm
• Wed June 3 – Des Moines, IA 12:00 noon
• Wed June 3 – Iowa City, IA 6:00 pm
• Sat June 6 – Chicago, IL 5:30 pm
• Mon June 8 – Indianapolis, IN 6:00 pm
• Tue June 9 – Cinncinati, OH 12:00 noon
• Tue June 9 – Columbus, OH 6:00 pm
• Wed June 10 – Pittsburgh, PA 6:00 pm
• Thu June 11 – Philadelphia, PA 6:00 pm
• Sat June 13 – New York, NY 5:30 pm