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Casata Brings Micro Living Rentals to Austin, Texas

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With some popular cities seeing incredible growth, not only is buying a home become nearly impossible, but rental options are getting slimmer. The key to successful living in these types of cities is to think outside the traditional apartment block. Austin’s Casata community will include 66 rental homes for micro … Read more

Bluegrass Meadow: Canada’s First Micro Community

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In order to combat the lack of affordable rentals in Terrace, British Columbia, the owners of Bluegrass Meadow Micro Village have teamed up with Hummingbird Micro Homes to create a tiny village in a beautiful, mountain area of Canada. Bluegrass Meadow Micro Village features homes by Hummingbird Micro Homes. Terrace … Read more

A Tiny House Love Affair

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John and Fin Kernohan recently joined us on Tiny House Expedition Radio for a lively conversation on falling in love, living tiny and creating one crazy fun tiny house festival series. Fresh off the hugely successful Florida Tiny House Festival, John and Fin are more love in with tiny houses than ever. They just … Read more

Hummingbird Micro Homes The Cowboy

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Hummingbird Micro Homes are offering “The Cowboy” tiny home RV model for sale. This micro home measures 20 feet long by 8’6″ wide (exterior measurements) with interior floor space totaling 208 sft. This home is available for $38,900 (CDN) complete with appliances and furnishings, ready to tow to your preferred … Read more

Tengbom Micro Dorms

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College and high school students are embracing the tiny house concept with gusto. One of the leading architecture firms in Sweden is right behind them with a series of affordable, portable micro dorms that are also environmentally friendly. The “10 smart square” dorms are only 107 square feet, but feature … Read more

Seattle aPodments

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Cash strapped minimum wage workers and students in the Seattle area are seeking and welcoming more affordable housing in their city, but the explosion of the aPodment micro housing units in Seattle is drawing new criticism in this dense metropolitan area. City officials are claiming that these 200 square feet … Read more

NOMAD Micro Home

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This stylish and energy efficient 10×10 foot micro home from NOMAD in British Columbia comes as a flat-pack micro cottage that can be assembled in just a few days. The NOMAD can also be customized to include a wet bath and appliances or no bathroom or appliances at all if … Read more

Burlington Microhome

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Moonlight in Vermont? Sunlight might be better for this tiny solar powered home built by Alex Carver and Christopher North of Northern Timbers in Vermont. The Burlington Microhome is a 100 square-foot modular house that is off-grid and ready for additional modules to be added to it if needed.

Northern Timbers built the microhome with design help from landscape architect and metal artist H. Keith Wagner.

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Much of Northern Timbers’ work reinterprets the traditional Vermont vernacular by introducing new applications of diverse materials into the residential setting, resulting in homes with a practical yet creative aesthetic.

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