Issue 1 – April 8, 2009
Tiny House Living is a weekly newsletter that covers the world of Tiny Houses and the people that choose to live this simpler life. Each e-zine entry will be a short summary that links off to the original article.
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Small Living Journal
The second issue of Small Living Journal was published this week. This is the bi-weekly webzine on the small home movement. This issue focuses on downsizing and contains several well written articles by leading folks in the online small living community. Be sure to visit Small Living Journal and subscribe to the RSS feed or by email.
Alaskan Log Cabin
Here’s a great story about a young couple who buys five acres in Alaska and builds a log cabin with little previous construction experience. The house was made with things found right on the property, for example the countertops came from local rock, the spiral staircase came from local timber, and their toilet seat was made form a tree trunk. This is a great story about modern-day homesteaders. Read more at Tiny House Blog.
Free Tiny House Plans
There are now three sets of free tiny house plans available at Tiny House Design. The first is a simple 8×8 Tiny Cabin with a loft. While being incredibly small it still has all the basic features of a larger home like a bathroom, kitchen, storage, and living area. Also available is a 5×8 Tiny Market House which is a trailer mounted tiny house designed for artisians and farmers to take their wares to market. The largest tiny house is an 8×16 Tiny Solar House that features a single pitch shed roof, open sleeping loft, and high cieling. Be sure to download your free tiny house plans at Tiny House Design.
Construction Begins – Mini Mobile Cottage
If you’d like to follow the construction of a Tumbleweed Tiny House online now’s the time to begin watching Jeff and Arlene. They live in an apartment in San Francisco and have rented a warehouse space to build their tiny house. Kent over at Tiny House Blog has the complete story. Read more about the Mini Mobile Cottage
Jay’s Tiny House
If you’d like to follow a tiny house construction story from beginning to end you might want to begin following the efforts of Jay. He’s been collecting all the stuff he needs to build his tiny house in the UK. He’s got solar panels, batteries, and now a trailer. Visit his blog, ironically named… You’re going to build a what???
Will’s Tarleton Tumbleweed Tiny House
Will up in British Columbia recently finished his Tumbleweed tiny house. It’s a Tarleton and cost him about $13,500 to build. He did most of the work himself with a little help from a friend and a little professional electrical help. You can read the story on the Tumbleweed Blog and see exactly how he spent his money. There is an itemized list of all his expenses.
Learn Earthbag Construction
The folks over at the Earthbag Building Blog point out how easy it is to learn a lot about building these inexpensive homes for free online. Taking workshops can be wonderful and give you first hand experience but get started online. Read how at the Earthbag Building Blog.
Recent Round-Ups
Steph over at Coming Unmoored posts a great round-up of articles every friday. Be sure to bookmark her site and visit on Fridays for the latest news and events.
Another great round-up comes out every Monday at RowdyKittens. This is another one to be sure and visit for a summary of the latest hapeneings in the tiny house world.
The Good Life… at the end of the world
A little off-topic but completely relevant is the blog Simple. Organized. Life. Read this lastest post on a day spent exploring a wilderness canyon for the sole purpose of enjoying life and reading a book… at the end of the world.
