Craig’s Tiny House Blog
A great new tiny house blog with some great tiny house designs from Craig. Pictured here is a teardrop inspired trailer design.
Octagonal Tiny House by Salman
I got a note from a fellow named Salman the other day. He’s been exploring some extreme tiny house design and came up with this clever octagonal house design. It’s nice to see some out of the box thinking and design.
Winner of 2009 Shed Design Competition
The Open Office, designed by Kenny, won the 2009 shed design competition at Secrets of Shed Building. One of the key features of this garden office is a set of sliding wood panels mounted to a rail system on the exterior of the building. They serve to block sunlight as well as provide privacy when needed. Congratulations Kenny!
Shed Design Competition Heating Up
This design competition ends October 31st… and I thought I had missed the entry deadline. It looks like the competition is steep so I better pull some of my most creative ideas out if I’m going to have a chance at winning. You can enter too… the more the merrier. Read more at Shedworking.
Shed Design Competition
Secrets of Shed Building is having a garden shed/office/studio design competition. The entry deadline is midnight GMT on October 31, 2009. The winner takes home an Apple iPod nano. For those of you not entering it should still be interesting to see the designs that come out from the tiny house and shedworking community.
Building Tiny House Models
Until I learned to use Google SketchUp I would often built models of tiny houses I was day dreaming about building. I actually made several models of Nine Tiny Feet until I started drawing 3D drawings of how I imagined fitting a whole house in nine square feet.
When I saw this article on earthbag house model building I realized I wasn’t alone. The truth is taht no matter what drawing tools you use, it is very helpful to build models especially for small structures. Visualizing an idea is not always easy to do and it’s much faster to work out ideas in modeling clay, cardboard, or foam core. Also visit EarthbagBuilding.com for more on model building.
