Category: Archived

  • Breathe Easy Cabin

    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 selected to create a safe house or cabin that is free from toxins and off-gassing of products. With the bath area separated and as the outside entrance to this small house, a the owner can minimize outside toxins from entering their small home.

    Breathe Easy Cabin

  • Intellectual Exchange Houses

    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 height also makes them more accessible in deep snow. Here’s a sample of what their website says about them:

    “The interiors are warm and cozy with tasteful furnishings, comfortable furniture, and powerful binoculars for wildlife close-ups. Electricity is provided via batteries charged by photoelectric panels on the roofs.”

    Thanks again for sending me a link to these Ryan!

    Intellectual Exchange Houses

  • These Bunkies Avoid Building Permits

    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 House Blog describes one such work-around situation at Lake Ontario, Canada.

    These Bunkies Avoid Building Permits

  • Gungadin’s Tumbleweed Fencl

    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

  • Modern Studio

    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 ideal way to go for someone looking for a modern look & feel and a durable structure. This modern studio is located in Melbourne, Australia and was designed by Open Studio Pty Ltd.

    Modern Studio

  • Shed Competition – Vote Now

    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

  • Michael Moore’s Tiny House

    No really… this guy’s name is Michael Moore (no relation to the movie producer) and this is his trailer house that he pulls behind his bike. Michael emailed me the other day with a note telling me I wasn’t crazy for coming up with some design concepts for bike pulled tiny houses.

    Michael… thanks for the heads up on this story! We’d love to see more photos. Photo credit Journal-Tribune photo by Lindsay Castle.

    Michael Moore’s Tiny House

  • Tiny House Zoning Success Story

    Here’s a great story about some folks in Washington state getting approval for a tiny house community by showing their local planning department how multiple small homes are not really much different from an apartment complex in terms of units-per-acre and square-feet-per-unit. When a property is zoned multi-family a community of tiny houses can be possible without changing the rules.

    Tiny House Zoning Success Story

  • Dans mon arbre

    Dans mon arbre is a treehouse company in Grenoble, France. Each treehouse they build is one of a kind and designed for each individual tree and client. I was really impressed with all the different designs they’ve come up with so far and the high level of craftmanship. The treehouse pictured here is especially cool with shutters and awnings that open and close to help control the interior temperature. I first spotted this on Inhabitat.

    Dans mon arbre

  • sipsFORM Sustainable Buildings

    There are some easy to build, sustainable, and small structures coming out of the UK. They are built from structural insulated panels and you can see several of their designs on the sipsFORM website.

    sipsFORM Sustainable Buildings

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