Teton Homes Go Mod Park Models

While traveling on my way to the Tiny House Jamboree, I came across a brand new tiny house company in Alpine, Wyoming. The Teton Homes Go Mod company sells manufactured and modular park models built to survive any mountain winter. Teton Homes Go Mod offers several floorpans that include two to … Read more

Tiny House in a Landscape

This weeks Tiny House in a Landscape is shared with us from Don Smith. I’ll let him tell you about it. I’d like to share a tiny cabin story. My wife and I always wanted to have a vacation property in the mountains. We had spent some time in Jackson Hole and … Read more

Rocky Mountain Tiny House “Stanley”

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Rocky Mountain Tiny Houses is pleased to announce the completion AND sale of its latest creation, the Stanley. It was about this time last year that I was taking a sabbatical traveling throughout Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, not only in search of adventure and a little vacation time, but also … Read more

Sheepherder Wagon Community in Idaho

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Sheepherding may be a thing of the past, but along Idaho’s Salmon River is a little community preserving this past with a modern twist. Though the residents don’t tend sheep, they choose to live as the sheep herders did in a small efficient sheep wagon. Massage therapist Renee Silvus had … Read more

The World’s Best Christmas Ornament

Craigslist Ad Thanks Dan for sending this to me! $20,000 (Stanley, Idaho) We are selling or trading the most perfect Christmas Church on Wheels. The Little Church of Miracles on Wheels is without a doubt the perfect and best outdoor Christmas ornament in the world. We will sell or trade … Read more

Wendell Greenalgh’s Little Idaho House

While on vacation Royal saw this little house in St Anthony, Idaho and shared it with me.

Wendell Greenalgh is the builder and owner. He said that a number of years back he had been part of a crew constructing a new home on a site in Colorado. There was already an existing home on the site that needed to be removed. Wendell stated that he was able to recover enough lumber from the older home to construct this small house.

The house is 16′ x 16′. The top floor is a bedroom and bathroom. The ground floor is is the kitchen and living room. He was trained in stone masonry and concrete work so he also built a basement under the house. There is a balcony and deck off the 2nd floor level. He said that grandkids like to sleep on the deck or on the grassy lawn. The house is sited adjacent to a canal, so they can stand in the yard and go fishing.

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Idaho Dugout House

Tom Farrens of Pocatello, Idaho contacted me about re-built (in progress) dugout house at the Historic Chesterfield Townsite in Chesterfield Idaho and shared a bit about them and a couple of photographs. The Townsite, located along the Oregon Trail was settled in late 1800’s is now a historic site and … Read more

Tiny House in Idaho

In mid-2008, after circumstances like job loss and not getting into grad school forced them to look at the future in a real and objective way, Keith and April Blankenship decided to stop waiting for “The Future” to live their dream of semi-retirement, simplified their lives and moved from Portland, … Read more