I’ve often thought that mirrored roofing would be great for keeping a house cool in hot weather but it never occurred to me that in a forest mirrors might actually camouflage a building. This is just a design concept so who knows how well this would work… but it definitely sparks the imagination. Mirrored Tiny …
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This is a story of a homeowner installing a small prefab home. The Clayton Homes i-House is a modern factory-built home that isn’t exactly tiny (starts at about 700 square feet) but seems like a good solution for many people so I wanted to include it here this week. Green Clayton i-House Set in Kentucky
Many people are very familiar with the work, writings, and contributions of Lloyd Kahn, the founding editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, Inc. This photo came from a trip he took to Europe. It’s a little stone hut located on the southwest coast of Ireland. What’s amazing about this little structure is that it’s constructed without mortar …
I’ve been really impressed with the progress the Urban Rancher has been making in the mountains outside Los Angeles. His simple design and good choice of materials is going to give him and great little remote cabin. His most recent update was to add galvalume roofing. Urban Rancher Update
Based in Berlin ZENDOME manufactures the cool geodesic dome pictured here. They are priced a bit on the premium side and not exactly meant to be a year round home but seeing their great photos reminded me of the wonderful advantages of a dome home. So then I did a quick search for a Ashland, …
Tiny Green Cabins has a new cabin design available called the Breathe Easy Cabin. It measures 8′ by 15′ and has a road height of 13′ 5″. Here’s what they say on their website about it: This cabin is designed and built as a toxic free green small house or cabin. The materials used are …
These Intellectual Exchange Houses are located on the up-state New York 5,000-acre Savannah Dhu Preserve, a conference and event center. They are a series of tall tiny houses that stand 20-feet above the ground and are meant as private meeting rooms and quiet retreats. I like these because they are so unusual. I bet their …
I always like to hear about folks finding creative ways of solving housing needs. It’s not the beating the system part that interests me, although too often it seems like that is a requirement, which is really sad. Shouldn’t building codes be designed to protect folks… not limit or exclude folks? This article on Tiny …
A little while back I stumbled across a fellow building a Tumbleweed Fencl in Flint, Michigan. Gungadin has been making steady progress on his tiny house and just installed most of his tongue & groove ceiling paneling. Visit the Tumbleweed website for more information about the Fencl. Photo credit Gungadin. Gungadin’s Tumbleweed Fencl
This artist’s studio isn’t exactly tiny at 775 square feet but I wanted to share it because it’s an example of a small building that uses industrial materials to form an attractive space. I can imagine how a tiny house could be built the same way from off-the-shelf low-cost industrial parts. It seems like an …
Vote for your favorite shed at the Shed Design Competition 2009 hosted by Secrets of Shed Building. There are 10 finalists and all of them are really great. I really wish I had made the time to enter the competition myself. 🙂 Vote For Your Favorite Shed
