Monthly Archives: December 2009

Top 10 Tiny House Design Posts of 2009

It’s been a busy year at Tiny House Design and interesting to go back and take a look at the top posts of 2009. I can’t say I was really surprised to see some of these stories float to the … Continue reading

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Kai’s Window Update

Last March I posted the story of a fellow named Kai who had built some handmade windows for his tiny house. I got a progress report from Kai the other day with news that his handmade double glazed windows are … Continue reading

Posted in How To | Tagged germany, handmade, kai, window | 1 Comment

Jonathan’s Tiny House Tour

Jonathan (Gungy) has been building his own Tumbleweed tiny house for the past few months. His house is almost complete and he recently posted a video tour of his tiny home on YouTube. His blog is filled with great photos … Continue reading

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Gypsy Junker

Derek “Deek” Diedricksen is working on another tiny house. This time a portable 24 square foot place he’s nicknamed the Gypsy Junker. This isn’t Deek’s first tiny house project, he’s built a cabin up in Vermont and is also writing … Continue reading

Posted in Projects | Tagged Deek, Derek Diedricksen, Gypsy Junker, pallets, reclaimed, recycled | 5 Comments

Sawtooth Saltbox

The following is a guest post and house design from one of my regular readers, Craig Moorhouse. As you can see the design isn’t exactly tiny but contains so many great ideas and detail I asked Craig if for permission … Continue reading

Posted in Design Concept | Tagged Craig Moorhouse, design concept, earthbag, passive solar, saltbox, sawtooth, shipping container, sketchup | 9 Comments

Cool Find on Craigslist

From time to time little houses like this pop up on my radar. This time it was from a google alert I have setup with the keywords remote cabin. It’s a little cabin with a 384 square foot lower level … Continue reading

Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged alaska, craigslist, for sale, small house | 2 Comments

Fireplace Shelter

This amazing tiny structure is located in Trondheim, Norway, and was designed as a place for kids in a school yard. The walls are made from recycled scrap wood from a nearby construction site that are arranged in 80 layered … Continue reading

Posted in Construction Method | Tagged Fireplace, kids, Norway, organic, recycled, scrap, shelter, Trondheim | Leave a comment

Tiny House Living – Issue 36

I just put the finishing touches on the latest issue of Tiny House Living, a blog based newsletter I publish weekly about the tiny house world. In this issue are some articles with topics like: Finding Land for Living, Small House … Continue reading

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The Great Escape – now in Texas

I’ve been following James and Kristen‘s tiny house construction story for months and today have great news. They have made it past an enormous milestone and have left Massachusetts behind and made the trek down to Texas where they will now … Continue reading

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Rick’s Tiny House in the Woods

I stumbled quite by accident on Rick Harrison’s blog tonight. Rick has created a quite little place to live in a forest in Wisconsin. He built his tiny house out of a 1950′s travel trailer that measures about 7′ by … Continue reading

Posted in Sustainable Living | Tagged forest, Rick Harrison, The Realm of the Eighty, trailer, wisconsin, woods | 6 Comments