If you love houseboats or floating homes, you may want to make a walking tour of the famous Sausalito Floating Homes part of your next trip to the San Francisco Bay area. I thought I would profile these particular floating homes because the community is maintained by homeowners and individuals … Read more
In the last post “Steph’s Tiny Floating Cottage“ I introduced you to the idea of tiny floating homes. In this post I would like to expand on that thought a bit and show you a few of the options and resources available to you. In a recent post on Park … Read more
Sarah and Brandon are a North Carolina-based couple living with their dog Iko in an off-grid floating cabin on Lake Fontana in the Great Smoky Mountains. They live fully off-grid with no cell service and they are only accessible by boat. They bought and fully renovated their 225-square-foot tiny home … Read more
Houseboats are a tiny house alternative. On Water Developments based in the UK is a company redefining living on the water. Their goal is to design and place high-specification houseboats in unique places for residency, commercial or high-end tourism. Their smallest offering is the M250 floating home. Compact, sleek, refined, … Read more
I’ve been doing a series to the email list about the different types of tiny houses available to you. I had a reader ask me yesterday if we had covered floating homes on the Tiny House Blog and as this was one of my future emails I decided to bring … Read more
By Steven Harrell In the various pursuits I’ve been involved with professionally, none has been more exciting and rewarding than working with people within the tiny house community and helping spread the message. Over the years, several key things have become apparent to me, perhaps most notably is that lots … Read more
You may remember the post I wrote several weeks ago about Storing Pet Food in Small Places. Living in roughly 360 square feet of living space presents many challenges for storing essential items like food products and I was thrilled to let you all in on my little secret. The … Read more
Electricity is something we all take for granted. Power lines are strung from house to house, from every street corner, in every office. Rural communities, downtown hubs and all structures in between all have the ability to plug in and pay for individual power usage that is pulled from the … Read more
Refrigeration in a tiny floating home is an essential part of our systems. Most liveaboard boats are equipped with refrigeration, though some are not. Some people simply store food with a cooler packed with ice. Where I like to travel, ice doesn’t last long so it was an easy decision to place … Read more
On our vacation a couple of weeks ago we stopped in at the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. When we walked into town we walked by Fisherman’s Wharf a historical part of town. While there were many larger floating homes the one that stood out for … Read more
Inspiration for Boathouse Comes from Tiny House Movement by Karen Jenkins I’d like to tell you that my family and I are fully immersed in the tiny house movement… that we sold our four-bedroom home in the suburbs and have downsized to keep only the necessities to live in a … Read more
Guest Post by Gray Anderson My name is Gray Anderson, and I am with Gable Log Homes, a cypress and cedar custom log cabin company based out of Sumter, SC. We have recently begun to offer an inexpensive, all materials included, cabin kit that can basically be stacked in one … Read more