-
50% off offer good on the plans listed directly below. Offer ends May 25, 2012. Use discount code 50PERCENTOFF when you check out to get your discount.
Category Archives: Plans
Don Vardo – Small House Plans
Portland Alternative Dwellings (PAD) has just released a set of house plans for their Don Vardo. The folks behind PAD are Dee Williams and Katy Anderson. Dee has spent years living in a one of the first Tumbleweed Tiny Houses … Continue reading
Posted in Plans
Tagged dee williams, don vardo, house plans, Katy Anderson, pad, tumbleweed
4 Comments
Tiny Solar Saltbox
I updated the Tiny Solar House plans tonight and added 5 pages that explain how this 8′ by 12′ house can be easily extended into a 12′ by 16′. I also made a little change to the name of the house … Continue reading
Posted in Plans
Tagged house plans, small house, solar house, tiny house, tiny solar saltbox
13 Comments
Palladio’s Escape Cottage Plans
This small prefab home drew a lot of interest when I first posted it here on Tiny House Design. Palladio’s Escape encloses 412 square feet and has a footprint that measures 18′ by 26′. Inside you’ll find a full kitchen, … Continue reading
Posted in Builders, Plans
Tagged Escape Cottage, house plans, Palladio's Escape, prefab, Ricky Newcomer
11 Comments
House Plan Preview – 12×24 Cabin
I’ve been busy drawing plans for the past month and slacked off a bit on posting articles on Tiny House Design. It just occurred to post a preview of the next set of plans I’ll be publishing. I don’t have … Continue reading
Camping Cabin – Rough House Plans
I’ve been super busy this past week drawing tiny house plans… I have three in the works now. The first two plans are a dogtrot and a 12×12 cabin. I added the third to the mix because one of my … Continue reading
Tiny Solar House Plans
Ironically this is my 400th post on Tiny House Design. I really hadn’t planned to do anything special for the 400th post but this does mark a personal milestone for me. Over the last year and a half of exploring … Continue reading
Free Green House Plans
I first learned of Free Green when they published three tiny house plans. At 1,160 square feet this latest plan is not tiny but is a very nice example of their work so I wanted to share it with you. … Continue reading
Posted in Plans
Tagged cabin, free green, green, modern, modern cabin, sustainable architecture
Leave a comment
Usonian Inspired Home by Joseph Sandy
Usonian homes were originally the invention of Frank Lloyd Wright with the first example, The Jacobs House, which was completed in 1937. He imagined these as small low-cost single-family homes that were designed unlike many of the common homes of … Continue reading
Posted in Plans
Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, Joseph Sandy, modern architecture, passive solar, The Jacobs House, Usonian
10 Comments
A closer look at the Sonoma Shanty tiny house plans
The Sonoma Shanty is an affordable tiny house solution that came out of a collaboration between Kent Griswold and Stephen Marshall of Little House on the Trailer. This is actually one of the projects that was born from a meet-up … Continue reading
Posted in Builders, Kits / Prefab, Plans
Tagged cabin, garden office, home office, house kit, Kent Griswold, kit house, shanty, shed, sonoma shanty, stephen marshall
Leave a comment
Test Driving Google SketchUp Pro
If you’ve been reading Tiny House Design for a while you’ve probably noticed that I’ve tried different drawing tools over time to draw my design concepts. Within the last few months I’ve been mostly using Google SketchUp, a free 3D … Continue reading
Posted in Plans
Tagged 2d, 3d, 3d illustration, cad, drafting, drawing, google sketchup, illustration, sketchup, sketchup pro
3 Comments
