Tiny House Living

Alec, a student in Glasgow, Scotland, has built a replica of Ken Isaacs Microhouse. Starting in September he plans to begin living in it for one year. He’ll be recording his learnings on his blog at unv20.blogspot.com.

Ken Isaacs, the author of How to build your own Living Structures, was an early contemporary innovator in tiny living spaces. Below is a video of Isaacs walking through some of his early work including the original Microhouse.

Ken Isaacs Microhouse – Revisited

Tiny House and Simple Living Websites:

• Tiny House Blog
• Tiny House Design
• Tiny House TV
• Shedworking
• Shedblog
• Rammed Earth
• 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

• Tiny House Design
• Sonoma Shanty
• Sheldon Designs
• Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
• Tortoise Shell Homes
• Little House on the Trailer
• I Stock House Plans
• CountryPlans.com

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

Tiny House Living is a regular newsletter on tiny houses, simple living, and sustainable architecture that comes out pretty much every Sunday. For more tiny house news and information you can also follow us on at our Tiny House Design Facebook Page, Twitter and by Subscribing by Email.

• Read Now… Tiny House Living – Issue 53
• Also see: RowdyKittens – Simple Living News Update

The Microlodge is conceived to be a vacation rental unit or camping alternative and is made in the UK. It’s a refreshing new take on the shape of what a cabin can be.

Microlodge

Tiny House and Simple Living Websites:

• Tiny House Blog
• Tiny House Design
• Tiny House TV
• Shedworking
• Shedblog
• Rammed Earth
• 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

• Tiny House Design
• Sonoma Shanty
• Sheldon Designs
• Tumbleweed Tiny House Company
• Tortoise Shell Homes
• Little House on the Trailer
• I Stock House Plans
• CountryPlans.com

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

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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