Faircompanies Video Updates

I have fallen behind on my friend Kirsten Dirksen of faircompanies.com videos and wanted to share her last couple of videos with you. Recently Kirsten was in France at a wedding and filmed the first story of the garage conversion. The second video comes from the Tiny House Blog joint venture with Kirstin calling for video stories and Deek shared his recently with Kirsten.

Jérémie Buchholtz wanted an affordable apartment in Bordeaux (he’s a photographer who splits his time between Paris and Bordeaux so his budget was limited), but he wasn’t finding anything he liked. Then he stumbled upon a listing for a garage.

In order to make the space feel larger, De Marien created a “house within a house”: one large piece of furniture that includes the bathroom, bedroom, office, closet, a sofa bed and all of the home’s storage. With everything contained in this large furniture box, the rest of the home was given more breathing room. View the complete story here.

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Ikea and Small Space Solutions

Ikea Malaysia is posting a video series featuring their interior designers who give tips on how to squeeze every thing you need into a small space. Featured in this post are a 430 square foot apartment; a 118 square foot combo bedroom/living room and a 29 square foot bathroom that also has laundry facilities and more.

These videos are short and they demonstrate very well what can be done in a small space. The ideas could be easily applied to a tiny or small home. You can view the Ikea Malaysia Channel here and see the complete series.

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Solar Bottle Lights and Tiny Houses

Celia brought this exciting movie to my attention and although it is focused on people in the Philippines and 3rd world countries there is no reason this technology could not be applied to tiny houses, sheds, and work spaces. In a time where everyone is striving to ‘go green,’ even … Read more

Tiny House with Outdoor Kitchen

Paul Wheaton does a lot of videos for his blog and asked me to share some of his tiny house videos with you. Here is the first of many that I will be sharing. This tiny house has a 100 square foot footprint. One gentleman, “Wizard” has been living here … Read more

Jay Shafer’s Tumbleweed Box Bungalow Video Tour

Recently, I had the opportunity to have a personal tour from Jay Shafer of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, of his new tiny home. Jay has completed and moved into the Gifford Box Bungalow. This house is one of the designs featured in his latest book called Tumbleweed DIY Book of Backyard … Read more

Would You Live in a Dumpster?

My internet has been down all morning and it just came back up. Here is a video that is making the rounds and several of you have asked me to post it on the Tiny House Blog. Gregory Kloehn likes building unique items and recently decided to create a high … Read more

16 Year Old Builds Tiny Home

Austin Hay from Santa Rosa, California is making the news these days. About a month ago he was featured in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. His latest forage into the public eye is a faircompanies.com video by Kirsten Dirksen. Which after just two days has had over 136,000 views. I … Read more

Updating a Classic Airstream Trailer

Kirsten from faircompanies.com latest video is about an updated airstream trailer. Sometime between childhood and adulthood, Andreas Stravropoulos had a Peter Pan adventure. He spent 4 years living in anAirstream trailer. He didn’t have a mortgage, he didn’t pay rent and he was able to pay off student loans. But it wasn’t … Read more

Popomo on Fox Business News

Fox Business News recently ran a video featuring Tumbleweed’s Jay Shafer and his tiny Popomo house which was parked in the middle of Manhattan. The 172 square foot Popomo was on its way to the East Coast of the U.S. and Jay was interviewed about it and his other tiny … Read more

Stephen Marshall Video

Joan Packard sent me a link to a recently completed video interviewing Stephen Marshall of Little House on the Trailer. It turned out real well though longer than some. It is well worth the time to watch if you can. They are also working on a video of Mike Litchfield … Read more

Tiny Yellow House Videos

TInyhouseblog Readers, Thanks to Kent for sharing these. The two videos here from our “Tiny Yellow House” youtube series are based around a Boston area hand built gypsy wagon (owned and designed by “Sage” who runs www.gypsyliving.org), and the other video is a simple tour of the REAL site where … Read more