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Saturday Tiny House Videos

Tiny house videos are better than saturday morning cartoons. Below are some tiny house & simple living videos we spotted online this past week. A couple of them are a little off-topic but relevant. Also: Subscribe to Tiny House Living … Continue reading

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Tiny House vs Camping Trailer

Photo credit to Evan and Gabby Camping trailers are a common sight – mobile tiny houses are still a bit of a novelty. Some of the aesthetic differences are immediately recognizable but then the similarities begin to blur. Below is … Continue reading

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Redefining the Trailer House

Randy has a blog called Mobile Kodgers where he writes about the freedom he finds on the road. Today Randy told the story of a long-time friend who lives in a private location on the Mogollon plateau in Arizona. The land … Continue reading

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Road Limits for Tiny Houses on Trailers

Building a tiny house on a trailer is one way to avoid certain limitations that are often unavoidable when building on permanent foundations. For example, while building codes can be a great guide for building a safe home, I’ve never … Continue reading

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PVC Bike Guy is building the Teardrop Bike Trailer

The PVC Bike Guy sent me few photos that show the progress of the Teardrop Bike Trailer, a project inspired by a design I posted about a year ago. As his nickname implies he’s a builder of PVC based bikes and … Continue reading

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Area 63 Productions – Airstream Restorations

Uwe Salwender restores Airstream trailers in Orange, California. His company, Area 63 Productions, emerged out of a hobby at the beginning of the recession when his entertainment industry related work began to dry up and the number of people looking for … Continue reading

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Adam’s Tiny Solar House Project Begins

Another one of my readers, Adam Waltering of Spokane, Washington, has started to build an 8×16 Tiny Solar House from one of my free house plans. This small house design features a simple shed roof and a tall south facing … Continue reading

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Tiny House on Skids

One of my regular readers shared some designs with me over the weekend. Tracy’s idea is to design a small lightweight habitable module that slides onto a common flatbed trailer. The entire structure would be built on top of skids … Continue reading

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Ultralight Tiny House Concept – Revisited

While recovering from the flu I found myself obsessing more and more about this ultralight house concept. I also began researching other unrelated ultralight topics like ultralight backpacking. I guess seeking extreme examples of less is more is just a … Continue reading

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SketchUp is Addicting – Ego Martini

One of my regular readers, Craig, has been getting more and more addicted to Google SketchUp. Below are some of the drawings he’s been doing. He actually started on this series before I started working on the ultralight tiny house … Continue reading

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