Tiny House Living

Justin Peer began building his tiny house last spring/summer. But he ran into trouble with the used trailer he was using which caused him to put his project on hold. No after a break Justin is preparing to jump back in and start again with a longer custom built trailer.

Jay’s Tiny House Update

I’ve really enjoyed some of the recent retro travel trailer posts on Tiny House Blog. These teardrop trailer designs are really incredible and they pack a lot of function into so little space.

Teardrop Trailer Gatherings

Retro Traveler

Aluminum Bliss is the blog of Chris and Lani, a couple that has hit the road in an 23-foot Airstream CCD trailer. Chris has a job where he can work from virtually anywhere so one day he and Lani decided that selling the majority of their possessions and hitting the road was a good idea. You can follow their travels at Aluminum Bliss.

Hillary and Matt over at This Tiny House had their story told on Apartment Therapy recently. Their tiny house is a small lightweight travel trailer that they are renovating.

Read about This Tiny House

Dee Williams has been living in her tiny Tumbleweed house since 2004. She built it in three months for $10,000. She has teamed up with builder KT Anderson and their are offering a tiny house construction workshop in Portland, Oregon on June 27, 2009. For more information see this post on Tiny House Design.

I’ve noticed more and more discussions online centered around the question, what is a tiny house?

I think a home is what you make it so a trailer can make a great tiny house. Tiny houses like Tumbleweeds, Tortoise Shells and Sonoma Shantys are built like houses and will probably stand up to the elements better over the years but little trailers are far more portable. Here’s a story about the restoration of a 1950s trailer.

Tiny trailer meets 50s spaceship

I’ve been following Technomadia on Twitter for a while now and I have to say I’m a little jealous. It must be a lot of fun to be living on the road traveling from place to place. It seems like an amazing road trip. I’m not sure I could take a whole lot of this kind of lifestyle but it’s fun to watch their adventures. See more at Tales from Technomadia.

This is a wonderful story posted by Christina at Tiny House Blog. Sisters on the Fly is a group of almost 1,000 women from around America who own and restore vintage camping trailers. It was started in 1999 by two real sisters who wanted to share their love of fly fishing with their female friends and began to invite and teach other women about the outdoors. Read the whole story at Tiny House Blog.
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Small Living Journal is the bi-weekly webzine put together by a group of us simple living and tiny house advocates. This issue is all about do-it-yourself projects and there was a wide variety of contributions.

Journal of a Tiny House
How To Draw a Tiny House with Google SketchUp
DIY vs DIBY
DIY Home Repairs Can Teach You Things You Never Expected
Making a Tiny House Using a Fiberglass Trailer
Zoey’s Tiny House
A Mobile Foundation
Tiny House Dream: To build or not to build?
Building the Mobile Hermitage Small House

I’ve been busy cooking up more tiny house designs. One of them is esentially a camping trailer that is built more like a lightweight aerodynamic tiny house. In fact it really could be a full tiny house for one person. It’s designed to be built on a 7′ by 12′ single-axle trailer but the house would measure only 7′ by 10′. Above the main living area there’s a small loft and a little space over the porch for storage. I added the porch to make it easier for this little house to be more apart of the outdoor space it occupies. See the 3D drawings at Tiny House Design.