With more cities and municipalities allowing for the building of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), the demand for these tiny backyard homes is increasing quickly. One ADU company has plans to not only build in its native California, but to expand ADU living around the U.S. Anchored Tiny Homes builds studios, … Read more
Various countries around the world that have higher population densities have come up with some creative ways to house their residents. Whether it’s the micro apartments in Seattle or the Spilytus in Tokyo these little efficiency apartments have some great ideas that can be utilized in other small living spaces. … Read more
The popularity of accessory dwelling units in California due to SB 9 has become a baseline for the rest of the nation. These tiny backyard houses are helping to fill a need in the low housing stock and the rest of the country is taking notice. ADUs on single-family properties … Read more
Due to the Assembly Bill 68 allowing for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in Los Angeles County, there has been an explosion of businesses who focus on assisting with the building of those ADUs. Building a tiny building in a backyard in a code-heavy county can be daunting, but companies such … Read more
After working for several years for the Jamaica Cottage Shop, carpenter and builder Greg Durocher decided to start his own tiny house business in his childhood home of Townsend, Vermont. His custom designs are not only built to handle the harsh New England temperatures and weather, but they include some … Read more
Most visitors to the online planning site might think that Houzz primarily focuses on mansions, city town homes and European manors. This is not so. Tucked into the pages of the website are some tiny house gems that are just as celebrated as their larger counterparts. Houzz is a portal … Read more
Last fall I visited Brian Levy and the Micro Showcase in Washington, DC. Brian’s friend (a jazz musician) had some triangular shaped property in the Stronghold neighborhood next to an alley and a cemetery. The odd shaped lot is now home to the Boombox, an artist studio and music space … Read more
While these beautiful glass and aluminum garden studios might not work in a very sunny climate, these UK designed and built structures can give you some ideas if you are looking for a tiny house full of light and passive solar options. Atelier creates sustainable, stationary garden studios for use by … Read more
By Chillia Zoll What can I tell you about being a builder? I can tell you that I love to toss numbers around in my head and figure out how to stretch lines into curves. A stationary nail connected to a string and tied to a pencil sets an easy … Read more
by Robin Boucher Britt and I built our small house (the left one in the attached image) in 1983 while he attended Virginia Tech to study forestry and I taught art. Everyone thought we were crazy building such a small space, but it was perfect for us. It is 20 … Read more
By Terri Barrie In periodically stopping by the tiny house blog while researching small living spaces, it and other web sources convinced me to move ahead with my little home project. This now splendid studio home was originally a weekend getaway with garter snakes living in the wall. After six months … Read more
Tanner shares a photograph he took recently. I’ll let him tell you more about it. Love the tiny house blog! I’ve been interested in building one myself for a while now. While I was out working I saw a tiny house in a landscape I thought would be great for … Read more