Tiny House Living

Tiny Green Cabins has a new cabin design available called the Breathe Easy Cabin. It measures 8′ by 15′ and has a road height of 13′ 5″. Here’s what they say on their website about it:

This cabin is designed and built as a toxic free green small house or cabin. The materials used are selected to create a safe house or cabin that is free from toxins and off-gassing of products. With the bath area separated and as the outside entrance to this small house, a the owner can minimize outside toxins from entering their small home.

Breathe Easy Cabin

I really love cube shaped tiny houses as long as they have some kind of pitched roof. I realize that technically the addition of a pitched roof means they are not really cube shaped but for me pitched roofs are a requirement.

So when I saw this solar cube I was really impressed. I suspect the roof of the cube itself is weather-proofed but the second pitched roof is doing most of the work, both shading the house from the sun and keeping most of the rain off the house.

Solar-Powered Green Microhouse

Now tiny houses have very small roofs so you’d have to live in a very wet climate to really be able to harvest enough water to meet all your needs, but here’s a great way to harvest and filter at least some of your water. Visit green book publisher Chelsea Green for more information on harvesting rainwater with sand filters and the book The Carbon-Free Home: 36 Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit.

A related story was posted on The Good Human this past week that asked the question Just How Much Rainwater Can You Collect Off Your Roof?

Treehugger has begun a new annual tradition of announcing what they consider the Best of Green: Design + Architecture. This little shed won the Best Prefab or Shed under 150 Square Feet and is the creation of Friggebod By Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. Treehugger has also put together a list of their favorite sheds. I first spotted this shed on Shedworking.co.uk.