Tammy On Life in 128 Square Feet and Beyond

the kids

My friend Tammy just got a special feature in a cool magazine and I wanted to share her original post with you. Enjoy! In June, an editor at Taproot Magazine asked me to write an essay about our tiny house experience for their readers. I was honored to be asked … Read more

Mark’s Life in 200 Square Feet

Mark Alford’s is part of the modern tiny house movement and he and his creation is part of the growing trend of people living in tiny homes that are less than 400 square feet. Mark and his girlfriend recently made the move from Indianapolis to an expensive studio in West … Read more

A Tale of Zoning Happily Ever After

Groundbreaking Zoning Ordinace for Tiny House Communities Once upon a time in the small, forward-thinking city of Rockledge, Florida, some of the most progressive tiny housing zoning ordinances in the entire US of A were approved, in record time and with great ease. You see, the forward-thinking City Manager had an eye … Read more

Tiny House For Sale: Eco Savvy and Family Friendly

Combat veteran, Lucas Berard, finds peace in the tiny house lifestyle while reaching out to empower other veterans to do the same. Lucas is easy to spot from just about anywhere in Dancing Rabbit Eco-village. (He’s the beefy guy wearing a florescent orange t-shirt.) I recently found him working in … Read more

What’s It Like to Move a Tiny House?

Michelle

Moving a tiny house is a lot like having a baby. You can eat right, you can go to the doctor, you can read baby books, and watch videos; but in the end the baby is going to come out and be what it is. It’s stressful, and amazing, all … Read more

Our Radical Little Home on Wheels

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We don’t wake up to alarms anymore, and we certainly don’t commute to work. We gave up pursuing our degree-related careers and decided to start doing what we love. Travel. We’re only young once and we’re not going to waste it. After adding up how much money we spent on … Read more

Larkspur: How to Live in a Tiny House with Kids

Eco-mom Kassandra Brown is on an expedition to explore love, belonging and connection while living in a sustainable tiny house with her kids.

Is there a correlation between the tininess of a house and the intimacy shared by the family dwelling within? If so, do close walls mean close connections, or do cramped conditions lead to cranky cohabitants? Kassandra Brown and her daughters, Jasmine and Kaylynn, have been an invaluable case study for me in answering this question. They live in Larkspur, one of the oldest and most storied family dwellings at Dancing Rabbit Eco-village.

 

Larkspur is not merely a tiny house; it is an evolving organism with a life of its own. It is a dynamic expression of its builders, several generations of owners, the land beneath its foundations and the community for which it has become a beloved landmark. Its form continues to shift and change in time with the needs of its inhabitants, even as their needs are influenced by the qualities of the house itself.

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My Tiny House Horse Trailer

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Guest Post by Tom Hebert In 2002, I designed and built this as a combination horse trailer and live-in camper. Come the Millennium and I could live in it. It is the only trailer designed and built in America to be pulled by a four-cylinder vehicle. I get up to … Read more

Snails Away: the Fine Art Tiny House

Crazy carpenter and compulsive customizer, Daniel Weddle, has built a tiny house on wheels so that he can pursue his dreams as a traveling musician. Daniel Weddle’s tiny house on wheels is Snails Away: the Fiddlin’ Snail, a mobile recording studio tricked out woodcrafter style with custom rock star amenities. … Read more