Homemade elevator bed highlights DIY blogger Ana White’s 3rd tiny house
Ana White’s first tiny house, the Quartz, featured a sofa/trundle bed combo. Her latest has a much more spectacular way of maximizing daytime and nighttime space: an elevator bed that the popular DIY...
View ArticleCreative Animal Foundation’s touring THOW: sustainable and surprisingly...
This is not National Lampoon’s Animal House from Universal Pictures – it’s the Creative Animal Foundation’s Tiny House from 84 Lumber’s Tiny Living division. The movie was more fun than a barrel of...
View Article84 Lumber’s lineup after a year in the tiny house business
Seeing the beautiful Creative Animal Foundation Tiny House recently reminded us that it’s been nearly a year since 84 Lumber started building tiny houses. We profiled their first build, the Roving,...
View ArticleJessica’s tiny MitchCraft THOW
The last MitchCraft related item we brought you concerned new employee Ken Leigh, whose very attractive fifth wheel 32-footer had sort of followed him to work one day… (It’s still for sale, by the...
View ArticleNomad’s first build displays design acumen – and excellent value for money
Nomad Tiny Homes, currently celebrating their first anniversary, got off to a great start in 2016 with the Black Pearl, a 23½-foot metal-roofed THOW that sold for a refreshingly reasonable $39,000....
View ArticleHouse for flight enthusiast couple features built-in simulator space
The Tiny House Nation guys built this house for a couple who, like so many other tiny house couples, wanted freedom from debt and freedom to travel. But this couple also had a special fondness for...
View ArticleBelinda’s Little Bird nestles snugly into the snow
Another fairly straightforward – and straightforwardly beautiful – tiny house from Zyl Vardos! Huge French doors and windows just about everywhere else make Belinda’s Little Bird look like the best...
View ArticleHannah’s RV reincarnation
College student Hannah and her father, Mike, finished this 300-square-foot house in about six months, relatively speedy for an owner-built project. It turns out that they had a bit of a head start:...
View ArticleTiny Diamond’s Purple Monster: Big, practical family home
Built by Tiny Diamond Homes (with some help from the buyers, a young military family), the Purple Monster meanders 38 feet over a triple-axle trailer and features a private master bedroom over the...
View ArticleHandcrafted Movement refines a great design and cuts $15K from the sticker price
If you saw their excellent (and expensive) Urban Craftsman, you’ll have no trouble recognizing the Tiny Getaway as another Handcrafted Movement build. The details may be different, but from the façade...
View ArticleBaluchon’s Calypso fits a first-floor bedroom into a 22-foot family home
French tiny house company Baluchon has a new custom build out, the Calypso. From the outside the 22-foot THOW looks conventional but classy, with a black metal roof and shou sugi ban / yakisugi accent...
View ArticleIncredible’s quality/affordability combo scales up beautifully in the $55K...
East Tennessee builder Incredible Tiny Homes started out a couple of years ago with some small, simple, and amazingly inexpensive houses, like the 128-square-foot Little Joppa and the $20,000 American...
View ArticleDesigner Eco’s fully-featured 16-foot Independent Series 4800
The Independent Series 4800 is a flawlessly designed, nicely priced 124-square-foot THOW with one major drawback: it’s only available in Australia, so we’re not going to be able to get our hands on one...
View ArticleEarth and Sky Palace
This unique and stunningly successful symbiosis of reclaimed wood and metal is called the Earth and Sky Palace, and it’s currently for sale in Denver with an asking price of $74,000. It’s a...
View ArticleMinimaliste’s wide body Sakura
When we met Quebec micro-maison outfit Minimaliste two years ago they were putting the finishing touches on their first build, the Sequoia. They still make that model, as well as a couple of other...
View ArticleRich’s Portable Push Out
Rich Daniels (of Rich’s Portable Cabins in Oregon) has done big, he’s done small, and now he’s done something that’s kind of either/or: a THOW whose push-out sections take it from 8 to 13 feet in width...
View ArticleLightweight SIP house holds 3 beds and a full bathroom
The simple, almost toy-like appearance of this 24-foot THOW has an equally simple explanation: builder Tiny House Life Space constructed the walls and roof entirely from Structural Insulated Panels...
View ArticleAffordable caboose style on a Tumbleweed trailer
Railway carriage conversions make some of the most charming tiny homes around. Finding an old train car and turning it into a good-looking, livable home takes a little luck and a lot of skill, though,...
View ArticleSiesta Key Vacation THOW
Famous for its fine, white quartz sand, Siesta Beach in Sarasota, Florida, has often been ranked number one in the whole USA – and sometimes in the whole world – so as beach vacations go you could do a...
View ArticleShowMe’s Starlighter1: radiant heat & solar for $35K
Here’s a 20-foot THOW that’s appealing on first glance, worth a second look when you notice the price tag is just $35,000 – and downright intriguing when you learn a little more about it. The...
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