Tiny Furnishings

Plank Chair

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Bill Clay alerted me to this option and I thought it might work great for someone with a tiny house or small abode. Bill had a couple of these years ago.  They are handy,  in that the two pieces come apart easily,  and with some forethought,  can be designed in … Read more

Laundry POD

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Mia who lives in a 11′ x 8′ travel trailer with her boyfriend Chris, the two travel the country 10 months out of the year performing at Renaissance festivals. They enjoy living the tiny lifestyle and soon want to upgrade to a full 20′ tiny house on wheels. Mia is … Read more

Mosely Folding Bath Tub

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Ryan spotted this very interesting folding antique tub on eBay and thought you would enjoy it. I’ve seen folding beds many times before but did not know a tub was ever designed to do it as well. The auction has ended but I think it will be back up for sale if you are interested and have lots of money to spend. You can view the original auction here. It would work quite well in a small home. Thanks Ryan for sharing this with us.

Own a fabulous piece of American history…The Mosely Folding Bath Tub manufactured by the Mosely Folding Bath Tub Company in Chicago, Ill. in the mid 1880’s.

In near perfect condition with a ten gallon copper tank, heated by a small kerosene burner. Clearly a luxury from another century.

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Seating In a Tiny House

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Guest post by Ryan Mitchell of TheTinyLife.com

In a Tiny House, space matters. Your choices about what you put in that space matters even more. One of the bulkier items, that we often find we simply can’t live without is seating. While we spend 8 hours of our day sleeping, we fill the rest of our day with work, leisure and socializing, a lot of which, we do sitting down. As humans, we are by nature social creatures, which mean that not only do we need seating for ourselves, but others too. Having a dinner party, meetings or game night in a Tiny House can be interesting when it comes to providing chairs for everyone. Here are a few ideas of how to balance the need for seating, while conserving space.

This chair was designed by Marina Bautier, with an integrated stool/table. While not in use it is able to be stowed within the foot print of the other. With a natural wood finish, it blends well with a Tiny House interior and one is able to double your capacity with no extra square footage.
Source: http://www.lamaisondemarina.com/

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Little House Stove

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Guest Post by Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell

The temperatures are dipping and the weather forecasters are predicting frosts – if you haven’t see them already – and it’s time to start cranking up the heat again.

For those of us who live in smaller sized homes and have access to wood to feed the wood burning stoves, though, it’s time to breathe a sigh of relief, as we won’t be paying the high electricity bills for the air conditioning of summer.

Little House Stove

When we built our Little House, we intended on using it primarily in the summer, so we didn’t go to the expense of installing a central air system, as we figured we could use a window air unit and a wood-burning stove in the winter – along with space heaters. I did want a beautiful rock fireplace, but given we ended up living in The Little House full time, I’m glad we went for efficiency, rather than beauty.

For four years of using The Little House as a weekend retreat and mainly over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, we never used the wood-burning stove. Even during the first year we lived here full time, we only used a space heater, as the place is so well insulated, it used relatively little energy. As well, having just moved and the transferring of jobs didn’t allow my husband the time to cut wood.

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Slide Away Bed

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Kyle just brought to market a new piece of furniture that doubles as a sofa and bed and thought people with small spaces might enjoy seeing what the slide away bed has to offer. Kyle calls it The Ultimate Murphy bed/Wall bed Alternative. Though not considered cheap this bed offers more … Read more

Tiny Circle Kitchen

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Tara, one of our readers brought this cool kitchen idea to me that I thought could be integrated into a small or tiny house design. Here is what the company has to say about there product. The revolving concept Original Circle Kitchen® offers intelligent kitchen comfort compressed into the smallest … Read more

Vintage Kitchenette Units

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Kim alerted me to a great deal if you are in the Minneapolis, MN area. If you are looking for a tiny kitchenette unit for your home these are a bargain at $100. Go to the craigslist listing here to get more information and purchase one.

Pallet Chairs

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Pallets are really Michael Janzen’s specialty from Tiny House Design, but I happen to like them too and enjoy seeing what can be built with them also. Craig one of our readers, sent me a couple of cool links to chairs that are being built with pallets and if you … Read more

Butler Projects

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Paul Butler of Butler Projects offers several tiny and small house plans for amateur and first time builders. According to Paul, his designs have been simplified about as much as is possible, in terms of shape and add-on modules, and can be made very energy efficient. The houses are designed … Read more

Casulo Room in a Pallet

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Casulo is a complete set of room furniture which can be set up in less than ten minutes and later disassembled and repacked like a standard Euro pallet of 80 cm by 120 cm (31.5 inch by 47.2 inch). No tools are needed in the process. I want to thank … Read more

Tiny Washing Machine

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One of the questions that comes up often with regards to a tiny house, especially one of the tiny houses, like Jay Shafer’s Epu is how do you do your laundry? Jay says that he uses the laundry mat. That is ok for some, but is there an alternative? My … Read more