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5 Tiny Homes for $25,000 or Less

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If you are willing to put in the time, sweat, and blood, you can still build yourself a $10,000 tiny house. If you are not willing or don’t have the skills, a professional can build one for you—but for a much higher cost. Dee Williams’s famous $10,000 house is still … Read more

Amish Yard Speciality Buildings as Tiny Houses

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The quality craftsmanship and durability of Amish built homes and structures are well known. Amish Yard in Pittsburgh and Canonsburg, Pennsylvania not only creates the traditionally known barns, sheds and gazebos, but they also design and build specialty buildings in various sizes —some of which can be used for tiny houses. … Read more

Tom’s Custom Vardo

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Anyone who’s a fan of Etsy knows you can spend too many hours browsing the wonderful stores and handmade items on the online crafter’s marketplace. One such item is large enough to live inside. Tom in Canaan, NY owns the Etsy shop pinecountry and is selling custom build Vardo wagons … Read more

Mr. Cabin Affordable Mini Cabin

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For anyone who has dreamed of having a real log cabin in the woods, but still wants to keep it small, Washington based Mr. Cabin, Inc. builds substantial and very affordable log cabins that stay under 200 square feet. Rhett Conner and Robert Burrington of Mr. Cabin also claim that … Read more

Kootenay Lake Gypsy Wagon

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Inhabitat (one of my favorite sites) recently featured this rustic, but beautiful gypsy wagon (one of my favorite tiny houses) which sits in the forest near Kootenay Lake in British Columbia. The 8 foot by 20 foot wagon was built on a $100 salvaged 5 ton chassis, with 2×4 construction and curved rafters. It cost about $8,000 to build and took several years.

Most of the building materials for the wagon were recycled. The floor is locally milled hemlock tongue and groove and the windows were second hand finds from the local classifieds. The exterior shingles were cedar “seconds” split with a hatchet. The round window was ingeniously made from a 1970’s picnic table and is framed with rope for a natty, nautical style. The curved roof is covered with flexible metal sheeting and has two, curved Lexan skylights. The interior of the wagon is covered with stretched canvas, stapled into place and painted with white wash. Under the wagon is space for the storage of supplies and firewood.

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The Tiny Houses of Black Rock City: Metropolis

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The theme of this year’s Burning Man was Metropolis, and the event’s temporary home of Black Rock City was buzzing with urban energy, wonderful, creative neighbors, and interesting camps.

Many of these camps had their own versions of tiny houses, and like last year’s post, I thought I would feature a few of my favorites.

This year, our neighborhood of 3:30 and Istanbul (see the Black Rock City map) was lucky to have the Neverwas Haul as a corner beacon. This “mutant vehicle” is styled as a steampunk Victorian house that you could actually live in. In Black Rock City, it’s helpful to camp near a larger structure so you can find your way back to your little home in the dark.

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