Issue 32 – November 20, 2009
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Henry’s Place – Tiny House Kit
Bill Kastrinos of Tortoise Shell Home and Kent Griswold of Tiny House Blog are teaming up to create and market a simple tiny house kit called Henry’s Place. It’s a 10′ by 12′ panelized structure for quick assembly. The prefabrication should also make this an easier do-it-yourself project.
High School Students Design/Build Project
This is a great story about a class of high school students in Canada designing and building tiny houses. Each student is coming up with a design. Three houses will be built. In the end two will be dismantled and recycled into future projects and one will be sold to raise money for the school. I’m certain this will be just the first of a series of articles on this wonderful school project.
Tiny House Design on Facebook
I’ve setup a Tiny House Design Facebook page and now inviting all my Tiny House Living readers to join. You’ll get a sneak peek of the stories I run across during the week on Facebook before I write them up on Tiny House Design or Tiny House Living. This is not a replacement for either of my two most popular blogs, just another way to stay connected to the tiny house world online.
Ryo’s $600 Hut
Here’s a modern day homesteading story of a man buying 60-acres in northern California and building himself a simple $600 tiny house. He’s just getting started and recording his adventure and life on his blog, Laptop and a Rifle. I first spotted this story on Tiny House Blog.
Compact Japanese Modern Home
This is a 624 square foot modern home designed by architect Toyo Ito. I wanted to share it with you because it’s so simple and unusual and contains a lot of great ideas for redefining a simple shed form.
Mirrored Tiny Treehouse
I’ve often thought that mirrored roofing would be great for keeping a house cool in hot weather but it never occurred to me that in a forest mirrors might actually camouflage a building. This is just a design concept so who knows how well this would work… but it definitely sparks the imagination.
Enter & Win – Free Drawing for Tiny Prefab ebook
Visit Tiny House Design and enter to win a free copy of my ebook, Tiny Prefab. I’ll be picking a winner this coming Sunday at midnight (PST). All you need to do to enter is post a comment on that announcement post and describe the type of tiny (or small) house you’d like to build someday. You should read some of the comments there now… great ideas.
Green Clayton i-House Set in Kentucky
This is a story of a homeowner installing a small prefab home. The Clayton Homes i-House is a modern factory-built home that isn’t exactly tiny (starts at about 700 square feet) but seems like a good solution for many people so I wanted to include it here this week.
More Simple Living Resources
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
Tiny House Builders, Plans, And Kits
