Category: Archived

  • Earthship Villa Composed of Tiny House Sized Rooms

    Architect Mike Reynolds is in Puerto Rico giving a tour of an Earthship Villa project currently under construction. It’s composed of multiple rooms that are each tiny house sized. Like all Earthships these homes make their own water, power, and are completely independent of the grid. The walls are made from used tires filled with compacted dirt and in this example the roofs are ferrocement domes. Learn more about this novel construction method at Earthship Biotecture.

    Video and image by Earthship Biotecture. The earth ship will be used as a community center to bring this community together. Learn more about Taina Soy Apiario, the organization partnering with Earthship Biotecture on this project.

  • Single Mom Converted a Fire Truck into a Tiny Home

    The folks at Tiny House Tours recently visited with Megan and got the full tour of the fire truck she converted into a tiny house by herself. She and her daughter are living full time on the road.

    Megan bought the truck for $2000 and did all the work herself with some advice from her dad. The truck is off-grid, has a simple 4-jug water system, small functional kitchen, and basic toilet setup. They use campground showers for bathing. For more amazing video tours like this subscribe to Tiny House Tours on YouTube. To learn more about Megan, follow her adventures on Instagram.

    Video and image by Tiny House Tours.

  • Jesse’s Affordable & Whimsical Tiny House

    Bryce Langston visits Jesse and tours his affordable tiny house made from mostly reclaimed materials. After living in a van for over two years he had an opportunity to build his own tiny house. It’s totally off grid with plenty of solar power. It has an indoor shower but no toilet. Instead he chose to setup a composting toilet outside the house. The woodwork is incredible and mostly made from reclaimed fence boards.

    For more great videos like this subscribe to Bryce’s Living Big In A Tiny House channel on YouTube. Video and photo by Living Big In A Tiny House.

  • Final VW Bus Clean-Up Before Giveaway

    Sabrina and Jimmy spend several stressful days cleaning the WANDXR Bus before the giveaway. After spending so much time together in a tiny VW Bus, it must be super hard to expel so much energy cleaning it just so you can give it away to someone else.

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    The giveaway ends on January 18, 2019 AT 7.00 PM PST. So there’s still a little time to enter this VW Bus Giveaway. You can choose to enter two different ways.

    • Free Entry – send a postcard mailed to Sabrina and Jimmy. For details on this option just follow the instructions you find in section 3 of their Terms and Conditions page. You can enter only once by mail.
    • Buy WANDXR Post Cards – You can enter as many times as you like this way, but it’s a paid entry per postcard. When you buy their postcards you’re helping to support their continued travel vlog. They also give back to the environment, animals, and humanitarian causes with every purchase.

    Photos and video by Sabrina and Jimmy.

     

  • Joe Builds a DIY Travel Trailer – Part 6

    Joe at Homesteadonomics has been building a Travel Trailer and sharing each step of the process with how-to videos on his Homesteadonomics YouTube Channel. In this most recent update he works on completing interior seating. There’s a ton of relevant tips in his videos for tiny house construction.

    He’s very close to completing this project. You can also follow Homesteadonomics on Facebook and Instagram. For the other parts in this video series visit the Homesteadonomics YouTube Channel. Video and photo by Joe.

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  • I Totally Want to Win This VW Bus

    The very first car I remember my parents owning was a red Volkswagen Westfalia Camper. We lived in San Francisco and San Rafael during that time and I’ve got a lot of fond memories of that van. On weekends we’d go camping up and down the California coast and I can even remember sitting on my dad’s lap turning the wheel. You might say it was the first car I ever drove. I wish I had a photo to show you, but those have been lost in time.

    One memorable trip was making the final trip on our move to San Rafael from San Francisco. My dad loaded up the camper with everything including a fish tank and we’d just crossed the Golden Gate Bridge and had almost made it up the Waldo Grade when the engine blew. My brothers and I got our first tow truck ride that day. I know the fish survived, but I can’t remember how they got to our new home. It was 1971.

    I live near Sacramento now and my own kids are 12 and 9. I’d love to give them adventures in an old camper like that – well maybe not quite like that one, but you never know right? My kids are pretty used to the comfortable luxury of modern cars – so a little spoiled. I’ve probably gotten a bit spoiled too, but I’ve not lost my taste for a little adventure.

    I think if I won WANDXR Sabrina and Jimmy’s VW Bus I’d be able to continue the adventure that bus has had with my family. I’d totally want to blog our adventures up and down the California Coast and our adventures into California’s Gold Country.  We’d get to live a part-time family-style vanlife like the one I remember my dad gave us. Might toughen my kids up a bit too and give them great childhood memories.

    The giveaway ends on January 18, 2019 AT 7.00 PM PST. So there’s still a little time to enter this VW Bus Giveaway. You can choose to enter two different ways.

    • Free Entry – send a postcard mailed to Sabrina and Jimmy. For details on this option just follow the instructions you find in section 3 of their Terms and Conditions page. You can enter only once by mail.
    • Buy WANDXR Post Cards – You can enter as many times as you like this way, but it’s a paid entry per postcard. When you buy their postcards you’re helping to support their continued travel vlog. They also give back to the environment, animals, and humanitarian causes with every purchase.

    If I win my first adventure will be bringing it home to Sacramento from Los Angeles. I don’t plan to take the normal route either, and will vlog the adventure.

    My fingers are crossed. Good luck on your entry!

    Enter for a chance to win the WANDXR Sabrina and Jimmy’s VW Bus.

  • Should a $5,000 Shed Be Used as a Tiny House?

    Derek ‘Deek’ Diedricksen shares his thoughts and experience on using inexpensive sheds as tiny houses… when to do it, when not to do it, and what to look out for in materials and quality. For more from Deek subscribe to the Relaxshacks YouTube Channel and be sure to check out his workshops at Relaxshacks.com if you want to grow your building skills.

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    Here’s Deek’s other video on Sheds.

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  • Sabrina and Jimmy’s 1973 VW Bus & Giveaway

    Sabrina and Jimmy Horel left their careers to pursue their passions of photography and video. They bought a 1973 Volkswagen Bus for travel and to live a simple nomadic lifestyle. Their travels are changing now and it’s time to pass their beloved VW Bus onto someone new.

    Instead of selling it, they are running a giveaway. You can enter by buying a postcard from them or mail-in a handwritten postcard of your own. See section of 3 of their terms of use to learn how to mail-in a free entry. Visit the WANDXR website to buy postcards and be entered automatically in the giveaway.

    Below are many photos of the bus. After they bought it they did some restoration work, which you can read about on their blog. As you can see, they’ve kept it in great shape while using it to it’s fullest. You can read all about the adventures they had with this VW Bus at WANDXR.co. If you want to see even more, visit the Wandxr Bus YouTube Channel.

    The WANDXR Bus Giveaway ends on January 18, 2019 at 7.00pm PST. Photos by Sabrina and Jimmy.

    Enter the giveaway on the WANDXR website.

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    Enter the giveaway on the WANDXR website.  Photos by Sabrina and Jimmy.

     

  • 15 Things To Know Before Building A Skoolie

    Zac shares 15 things he and Tiffany wished they knew before building their Skoolie School Bus Conversion. Find them at Rolling Vistas. Subscribe to the Rolling Vistas YouTube Channel for updates. Image and video by Zac and Tiffany.

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    Here’s the list… but listen to the whole video because there’s a lot of essential details in what Zac shares.

    1. You’ll feel overwhelmed.
    2. You’ll be nickel and dimed.
    3. You’ll watch countless hours of DIY videos on YouTube.
    4. The project will take longer than you imagine.
    5. Make choices for that work for you, not someone else. Trust yourself.
    6. You’ll spend too much time at the hardware store.
    7. Once you start on it, you’ll want to spend time working on the bus all the time.
    8. You’ll build incredible skills.
    9. You’ll become more self reliant.
    10. You’ll meet new people.
    11. You’ll overcome mental and physical obstacles.
    12. Enjoy the thrill of the build.
    13. You’ll learn a lot about yourself… and your partner.
    14. You’ll be proud of your work… no matter how good or bad it is.
    15. You’ll find yourself in a community of kind, intelligent, and fascinating people.

  • Best of Both – A Skoolie Tiny House Combo

    Derek ‘Deek’ Diedricksen gets a tour of a Skoolie Tiny House. Instead of choosing one or the other Chris from Blackstone Builders in Georgia built a tiny house on the back of a school bus. For more videos from Deek subscribe to Relaxshacks on YouTube.

    [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyZ_V-54G0[/embedyt]

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