Last night Michael Janzen published the latest issue of Tiny House Living which is his weekly online newsletter that covers the growing world of tiny houses. Here are a few snippets from this week’s issue:

The sheddies in the UK are extremely serious about their sheds. Shed Week 2009 begins July 6, 2009 so be sure to keep any eye on the shedblog.co.uk… finalists for Shed of the Year have just been announced.

Architect Gregory Smith send this photo into Tiny House Blog for Kent’s regular Tiny House in a Landscape feature. It’s a historic weekend cabin near the edge of a river in Cisco Grove, California

Ryan also just launched a tiny house blog and forum in addition to setting up this very novel map that allows everyone in the greater simple living community to add themselves… Please add yourself to the map.

Take a look at this week’s edition of Tiny House Living.

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The single biggest roadblock to small living is, in my opinion, the excessive regulations that appear in the form of minimum-size requirements. Many of you that are reading this are likely looking for ways to live small yourself, and chances are that this is one of the reasons you haven’t been able to yet. But the limits of bureaucracy are not just visible in minimum size. In the county where Tyson lives, land parcels must remain a certain size with one main house on them in order to keep the area “rural.” In Portland, where Steph has her houseboat, no new houseboat slips can be created.

Finding ways to live small within a system that promotes the rapid spread of suburbia and limits or bans creative solutions is one of the biggest challenges we face, as can currently be seen in the stalled rebuilding efforts in New Orleans post-Katrina. So much red tape has kept Marianne Cusato’s Katrina Cottages from being built, despite the fact that they were hailed as lightyears better than FEMA trailers, since they could be expanded upon to create permanent dwellings. Although there is no one solution that we at SLJ have hit on, hopefully, this issue will get your wheels turning. Read the Small Living Journal Here.

Photo Credit: Amanda Abel

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Mike from Michigan has been following the Tiny House Blog and with his natural instinct to be efficient, he wanted to build a house to put on his land.

Mike has the well and septic system in on his property, but with the economy not what it had been he decided to build a tiny house instead of a larger one.

Mike bought a used camping trailer frame that was already stripped down for $175. Most of the building materials he used were new, however he was able to pick up his windows from a local habit store.

The building is built of 2×4 construction and has a black steel roof that Mike was able to pick up real cheap because a customer returned it and it was a special order. Mike assembled the roofing and made the custom soffit vent.

Mike painted the door black to match the roof and painted the 1×4 corner trim green as it looks real nice with the cedar color stain.

The interior has not been completed yet, so I will do an update post when Mike has completed the home.

So far Mike has spent about $2000 and he wishes he had taken photos of the construction. It is his own design and he put the home together pretty much by himself. Even raising the walls which was tricky and he had to rig up a rope rigging so that he could accomplish it.

He designed his own rafters and plans to have a vaulted ceiling everywhere but over the bathroom and kitchen. The loft will be 8×8 in size.

Thanks Mike for sharing your project with us. I am looking forward to seeing the completed home. If you have any questions Mike says to email him at mm225490@yahoo.com

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