September 5-7, 2014 for a 3 day workshop to learn cob building essentials — we’ll be building a sheltered outdoor bench from the ground up, and an interior wall full of artistic touches in a newly built straw bale home.” – Ziggy Learn more about this workshop…
Tiny house advocates will admit that these compact dwellings are deceptively complex. People new to this specialized housing segment might think a smaller house means simpler designs and construction… If you have ever wrestled with remodeling a small kitchen or closet to try to maximize livable space and storage, you will understand what tiny house designer …
Drawing up tiny house plans: DIY or hire a pro? Don’t know? Take a workshop Read More »
Coming up in just a couple of weeks is the Tiny Texas House’s week long salvage building bootcamp. Scheduled for March 3rd through March 9, 2014. Using material from the Ugly Duckling Bootcamp you will design a home and then build it.” – Kent
Tiny Texas Houses will be hosting a week long salvage building bootcamp from March 3rd – March 9th, 2014… The plan is to build a tiny house design like that of “The Writers Cottage” and “Essay Contest” tiny houses. This house will be a 15′x12′ design with two floors…big enough to live in full time but …
The idea that you can build a structurally strong house with nothing more complicated than a bunch of bags, earth, clay and lime, plus some basic on-farm materials and plenty of hands on deck is pretty exciting for a lot of people, including me.” – Milkwood Permaculture See more form this Earthbag Building Workshop at Milkwood …
A Peek at a Past Earthbag Building Workshop at Milkwood Farm Read More »
This will be one of the most spectacular natural building events in recent history. The cottage will be about 150 square feet, and built with cob, bales, cordwood-cob and salvaged wood. It will be finished with a straw-clay plaster and tamped earthen floor.” – House Alive! Read more about the One Day Cob House workshop. Photo above …
Can They Do It? Can a Cob House be Built in One Day!? Read More »
Two years ago I downsized from a 2-bedroom bungalow to a tiny house on wheels. A year ago I downsized again to a 12-ft diameter yurt and embarked upon My 200 Things Challenge. These days I live in a 130 square foot tiny house on wheels and I’ve made space-efficient housing both my livelihood and …
This week I am with Andrew Morrison of Strawbale.com in Orangevale, California at a week long straw bale workshop. I will be giving you daily updates of our progress as we learn and progress on this timber frame straw bale barn. Though not tiny this “barn” has a 600 square foot footprint.” – Kent Read …
Dan Louche at Tiny Home Builders explains the basics of drills and drivers in the video below. Dan has made a complete series of videos on how to build tiny houses. If you’d like to learn more about building your own tiny house, a nice alternative (or addition) to taking a tiny house workshop are …
Dan Louche Shows How to Use Drills and Drivers (Video) Read More »
Photo Credit Timothy/Tiny Home Builders I wanted to share Timothy’s tiny house design with you today. I got to meet him at the Atlantia, Georgia Tiny Home Builders workshop earlier this year. He ended up purchasing Dan’s Tinier Living plans and made some adjustments which I think are awesome. And if you ever needed or …
Thought I would inform you that at Jay Shafer’s upcoming workshop in California this August 10-11, 2013, you’ll get to also go on a tour to see a bunch of tiny houses on a field trip the entire group will be taking. Little things like that are what make certain workshops special to me, in my …
Jay Shafer Tiny House Workshop with a Field Trip Read More »
Dan is making excellent progress on his latest tiny house and how-to video series – a virtual tiny house building workshop. Last step on the exterior of this house was to finish the roof. “I personally like the look of the metal roof, but I know it’s not for everyone. The problem is that there …
