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Tag Archives: tiny house design
Michael Janzen Interview on Rowdy Kittens
Recently Tammy Strobel interviewed me for her blog, Rowdy Kittens. I’ve known Tammy for a couple years now, through the tiny house movement. Tammy’s life & work is focused on the topic of simple living and she currently lives a … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement
Tagged michael janzen, Rowdy Kittens, Tammy Strobel, tiny house design
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The Tiny House Project – Bring On The Competition!
I haven’t been THIS excited about tiny houses since I first saw a photo of Jay Shafer’s tiny house. The Tiny House Project seems to be designed to take tiny house design (in general, not my blog) to the next … Continue reading
Posted in Community Design, Sustainable Living
Tagged competition, Projects, tiny house, tiny house design
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Contest – Name That Tiny House
Project Rolling Freedom is running a contest right now where you could win a set of plans. To enter the contest all you have to do is come up with great name for a tiny house design they have posted … Continue reading
Posted in Announcement
Tagged contest, project rolling freedom, tiny house design, win plans
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More Sketches of the Tiny Simple House
I’ve been playing with more drawing software in an attempt to find the right combination of tools to draw the illustrations for the Tiny Simple House plan book. Below are 3D images made with Google SketchUp and a short video. … Continue reading
Posted in Tiny Simple House
Tagged google sketchup, house plans, tiny house, tiny house design, Tiny Simple House
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New York Times Article on my Tiny Free House
A nice article on the tiny house movement and my tiny free house just got published by the New York Times. Pictured here is Jay and Greg on an Los Angeles freeway while headed south on their border to border … Continue reading
Posted in Tiny Free House
Tagged free house, michael janzen, new york times, Tiny Free House, tiny house design
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Tiny Free House Update
I’m starting to really cut up pallets and build wall panels today, very exciting. Last night I stayed up late and made some important changes to the floor plan of my tiny free house. I moved the door to the … Continue reading
Posted in Tiny Free House
Tagged house plan, house plans, pallet house, Tiny Free House, tiny house design
5 Comments
Self-Sufficient Housing / The Self-Fab House
This news is a bit old, but new to me and maybe you. The Self-Fab House was a design contest in 2007 that sent out a call for designers to submit concepts for a self-sufficient green house the occupants could … Continue reading
Small House Design Techniques Increase Perceived Size
I just stumbled on this National Geographic video on YouTube. It describes a small (not tiny) house in Japan where the architect used many simple design techniques to increase the perceived size. The actual footprint is 320 square feet and … Continue reading
Posted in Projects
Tagged japan, japanese architecture, japanese tiny house, tiny house, tiny house design
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Design Study – Underground Concrete Pipe Tiny House Concept
A little while back I came across information about a concrete pipe hotel in Austria and blogged on it here. It occurred to me that concrete pipe might make a pretty cool tiny house so over the weekend I drew … Continue reading
Sheldon Designs – Building Plans for Cabins, Cottages, Barns, and Sheds
You’ve probably seen this company’s ads in the back of magazines like Mother Earth News and Fine Home Building. Sheldon Designs sells a wide variety of plans for Cabins, Cottages, Barns, and Sheds. They are also open to suggestions so … Continue reading