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Two Sustainable Sheds
I’ve been fun at Tiny House Design imagining habitable shed clusters. This week I drew a simple two shed design with rain water collection, solar panels, and a small 8′ by 8′ deck that provides some...
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Sonoma Shanty Prices Announced
Kent Griswold and Stephen Marshall recently announced some pricing on the new Sonoma Shanty tiny house. Their idea is to make tiny houses more attainable and affordable.Do-it-yourselfers would probably...
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Tiny House Project
At the moment this news might be more exciting for those of us who regularly think about tiny house design. The Tiny House Project will be a traveling village of nine tiny houses designed and built to...
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Tiny Free House featured in The Pavement
I was contacted recently by the folks at the Pavement, a free magazine for homeless people in London and Scotland. They wanted to do a story on the Tiny Free House I’m building out of pallets. The...
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Tiny Dogtrot House
A couple weeks ago I posted a design on Tiny House Design called Two Sustainable Sheds which proved to be a very popular idea. After digesting all the feedback I came up with a slight variation called...
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8×20 Tiny Solar House
If you read my design blog you probably noticed that I recently posted version one of the free house plans for an 8×20 Tiny Solar House. I’ll post an updated version soon that will include feedback...
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Touring by Tiny House & Mule
This is a wonderful story of a man one his second trip across America in his mule drawn wagon. Bernie Harberts of River Earth recently downsized from a 60 square foot wagon to a lightweight 21 square...
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Reburbia Finalists Chosen
Reburbia, the design challenge sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat is underway. The top 20 entries are now on display and public voting has begun. Take a look and be sure to vote for your favorite design...
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Shed Design Competition
Secrets of Shed Building is having a garden shed/office/studio design competition. The entry deadline is midnight GMT on October 31, 2009. The winner takes home an Apple iPod nano. For those of you not...
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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...
View ArticleUncut Tiny House Improved
The other day I posed the riddle… can a tiny house be built without a saw and off-the-shelf materials? That’s the goal of this design exercise. In my first pass at solving this challenge there were a...
View ArticleUncut Tiny House Preview
The other day someone commented on Facebook and challenged tiny house designers to design houses with fewer angled cuts. They had spent the day cutting angles on their own tiny house.Since so many tiny...
View ArticlePhantom Ranch
Located 4,600 feet below than the South Rim of the Grand Canyon is a community of eleven tiny houses designed by architect Mary E. J. Colter back in 1922. This is Phantom Ranch - the only lodging...
View ArticleHomesteading in Thailand
Owen Geiger is well known for his work in earthbag construction. He lives in Thailand and is building a sustainable homestead on a half acre of inexpensive low lying land that was once a rice...
View ArticleEcology of Colour
While this building is not a home, it’s filled with inspiring ideas. Ecology of Colour is located on Ecology Island in Dartford, Kent, on a previously neglected corner of their Central Park. The...
View ArticleCaravan – The Tiny House Hotel
Located in the funky Alberta Arts District of NE Portland, Oregon (map) is the first tiny house hotel in the USA. There you’ll find three tiny houses that encircle a small courtyard.Each house is...
View ArticleMeet Ethan Waldman
Ethan Waldman is a technology coach who quit his corporate day job and took his future into his own hands. One of the steps toward his goals was to downsize and build a tiny house. His journey...
View ArticleThe Advocate Tiny House Project
The Advocate Tiny House will be created through crowdsourced collaboration. In other words you can help design it, and the Advocate Tiny House team will build it. When the house is complete they’ll use...
View ArticleOpen Trail Homes
Open Trail Homes, a new tiny house company has been launched in North Salt Lake, Utah. They currently offer four models from 128 to 320 square feet.All of the homes are built on wheels and the largest...
View ArticleTennessee Tiny Homes
Joe Everson started Tennessee Tiny Homes in 2012, but Joe has over 15 years experience building custom homes. He’s located near Memphis, Tennessee and in the last year has completed several homes.What...
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