Tiny House Living

Here’s a great time lapse video that shows how a tiny stick-built building goes together. It nicely illustrated how little building material is needed and how few steps are really needed to provide a basic structure. I first saw this on Shedworking.

The folks at Arial Home have posted a couple short videos on YouTube that show how they heat water with a rocket stove and collect rain water from the roofs of their tiny prefab homes.

Arial Home Rocket Stove and Rain Water Collection Videos

Now here’s an idea that had a lot of promise. I wonder why it never took off? I ran across this video while researching ways of building ultralight tiny houses.

Trailer Concept

This isn’t really about a tiny house but instead old-fashion simple living. Dick and Bonnie Cain live out in a remote part of West Texas without running water, electricity, or any other modern amenities. They live like folks used to live back in the 1800s and their story is really inspiring.

YouTube: Pioneer Couple

There is a lot of great tiny house video content out there but it’s not really easy to find it all. YouTube does a pretty good job of surfacing relevant videos but it’s not perfect.

At first I was just going to put a page in Tiny House Design but quickly realized that there were so many videos that the navigation would become too unwieldy. So I decided to setup a separate website just for a collection of tiny house videos.

At the moment there are just a few there but I’ll be adding more regularly. Take a look at what I have so far at Tiny House TV

There’s a nice slide show style video on the Earthbag Building Blog that illustrates the steps needed to build an earthbag dome home. If building homes with earthbags is new to you watching this short video will provide a quick overview.

When you’re done looking at that video there’s another earthbag dome home video on YouTube from the folks at Cal-Earth that also shows the earthbag building process.

Gregory Johnson put together a 10-minute video that provides a nice overview of the Small House Society. It explains how the organization serves the small house community and the growing number of people that are discovering more freedom by choosing to live simply. Visit the Small House Society to watch the video.

The folks at Tiny Texas Houses have put together a nice video that shows off many of the tiny houses they have built. These homes are a bit unusual in that they are constricted from many different reclaimed building materials that have been salvaged from older homes. These ‘antique’ materials actually give these houses a much more authentic feel than many of the tiny houses built from new materials. Watch the video at Coming Unmoored. Read a detailed article at Constructing a simpler life. Visit the Tiny Texas Houses website.