Tiny House Living

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• Read Now… Tiny House Living – Issue 47
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• Also see: Small Living Journal for Issue 16: How To Design & Build a Home

My entry to the Free Green Who’s Next Competition is probably the only one that includes tiny houses. It’s a cluster for 4 small houses clustered around a courtyard. The public voting ends on March 17th. If you like it, please give me a vote. The winning concept will be turned into a set of plans available at FreeGreen.com.

Tiny House Cluster

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

Kelly Hart posted the story behind the earthbag house that’s featured in the header of his blog, Earthbag Building Blog. It’s a Glorieta, a glorified gazebo of sorts, that was built during a workshop back in 2003 in Crestone, Colorado. Local materials, including the dirt around the house, was used to construct this little building.

Earthbag Glorieta

Codding Steel and Bill Kastrinos (Tortoise Shell Home) collaborated on this prototype for a low cost prefab metal and wood building system that could be used in disaster situations.

Rapid Deployment Structures

Derek “Deek” Diedricksen is starting to put together a regular television-like online show focused on tiny houses. The first episode features his tiny Hickshaw. You can learn more about Deek and this house at his blog, RelaxShax.

The Shepherd’s Rest, located in the UK, builds shepherds huts similar to those that were used for centuries in rural England. These are built with new materials and to a very high level of quality.

The Shepherd’s Rest

While this little command post at a Marina in France is not a house, it reminded me of fire tower-like tiny houses. Not exactly a warm and rustic timber frame fire tower but for those who like concrete and steel, a really nicely done little building.

Command Post

Here’s a tiny house for those who crave luxury and have the money to afford it. It costs about $55,000 and features a green roof, SIP (structural insulated panel) construction, and environmentally friendly building materials. Ecospace is located in London.

Ecospace – Extreme Luxury

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.