Tiny House Blog

Christina sent this to me this week and even thought I have used it before I thought it was perfect for this holiday season.

The traditional Norwegian building called “Stabbur” and was used to store food. The two floors made it perfect for hanging meat from the ceiling in good distance from the claws of greedy animals. (Actually one of our readers just told me this photo was taken in Austria so the information above is incorrect, sorry about that!)

I think it would make a perfect little home and I think maybe this one has been converted into just that. What do you think? Happy Holidays!

This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape was taken by Emily, a geology student from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The picture was taken somewhere in the Yukon and I discovered her blog by accident looking for tiny cabins in the mountains. It is a random photo of a log cabin she took on one of her explorations of the area and I just think it is so cool and fits right in with this feature. You can follow Emily’s blog here. http://moss_agate.blogspot.com/

Lesle sent me this photograph of a tiny building decorated for the holidays. Although the landscape is rather invisible because of the white out the building is attractive and the wreath is beautiful. I like like the pine boughs used to decorate the edge of the roof. No lights here, just natural decorations. You will need to use your imagination on the landscape and put it where you would dream this little building should be located. Thanks Lesle for this holiday picture.

This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape is of a yurt set in a valley somewhere in Colorado. I am a big fan of yurts as I love there simplicity and ease of setting up. They seem perfect for a wilderness hideaway such as this one. Yurts are also used to live in full time, sometimes built with solid wood walls, and range from small to quite large in diameter.

The one drawback with the yurt for me is the lattice walls and how they affect your view out of the windows. You probably get used to it after a while and I know there are alternatives.

This photo is courtesy of the Colorado Yurt Company.

This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape is a photograph by Trey Ratcliff and is titled “Tiny House in France.” Taken in Versailles, France Trey has this to say about where it was taken: So, Versailles is a monstrously huge place. I’m not sure how you could see everything in a day. I chose to concentrate this trip out in the royal gardens, and a confusing walk got me into this place. It’s not exactly secret, but I didn’t know about it until I walked up upon it!

It is called “The Hameau de la Reine”, and is generally known as the Queen’s Hamlet. It was built for Marie Antoinette between 1785 and 1792. It is lovely, and this is only one of the many little places I captured there…

See the full size photo and many more at Trey’s website Stuck in Customs.

This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape was shared with me by Derek “Deek” Diedricksen of Relaxshacks.com and the Tiny Yellow House videos. Deek and his brother Dustin recently spent some time in this log cabin in Northern Vermont. It is a 20′ x 20′ cabin which is about 400 square feet. This cabin resides at the very end of the dirt road that Deek’s land is on.

After night two Deek and Dustin awoke to find it snowing, and proceeded to pack their stuff up quickly as they had to move their car up a hill before it was snowed in as they did not have four wheel drive.

So we luck out and have two pictures that look like two different seasons. Thanks Deek for sharing your adventure with us. You can also view a couple more pictures of the interior on Deek’s blog.

This week’s Tiny House in a Landscape was taken by my friend Steve Reeves who blogs part time about Compact Yachts http://compactyachts.com/. I had the privilege of joining Steve on a San Francisco Bay cruise last year in his boat the Kokomo.

Steve was recently at the Bay again and spotted this cute (tiny) house in the Berkeley Marina. He thought of the Tiny House Blog and this feature when he saw it so he snapped a picture to share.

Thanks Steve for this great picture, maybe next time you can get a personal tour of the home and get some interior photos too!