Sunset magazine, a home and lifestyle magazine about the American West, has embraced the tiny and small house movement with several features on tiny houses and trailers. Tiny house dwellers who enter their Small Space, Big Dreams Home Awards could win a $250 Container Store shopping spree and could also … Read more
Guest Post by Shelley Davis In England today, narrowboats are floating homes, or holiday cottages, moored on the nation’s inland waterways. They can range from a small 20ft long day boat to around 80ft long for some liveaboard craft that will never be taken around the whole country, but must … Read more
I am in the mood for showing off some floating homes so I did some research using google images and came across this one floating on a river in Amsterdam. I’ve never been to Amsterdam, but judging by this photograph taken by Victor Sounds, it looks like it would be … Read more
I have not covered floating homes in quite sometime but I recently discovered these photos from the Seattle Municipal Archives and wanted to share them with you. In Seattle houseboats originated as cheap housing, anyone who could scavenge logs and build floats could also build their own cheap home. Times … Read more
Jared alerted me to this unique find on Ebay at 5:00 A.M. this morning. Tiny houses and floating homes are a passion of mine and this one a real find. If you are in the Portland, Oregon area I would run down and check this out right away as I … Read more
I recently received a book to review called Tiny Houses by Mimi Zeigler. This book is a tiny 7 x 7 inch coffee table style book and is in the spirit of treading lightly on the earth. Mimi brings an international look at over thirty homes under 1000 square feet. … Read more
Little House on the Trailer at Sonoma Home and Garden Show If you are in or near Sonoma County this weekend, stop by and see Stephen Marshall at the Sonoma Home and Garden Show. The show runs from March 20 -22 and is located at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. The … Read more
Aside from a daily view of the sea and a nightly view of every star in the sky, there are a few sailboat systems we have to think twice about. We cook with propane so there are buttons to push, a tank to refill, and a system to turn off … Read more
For most of my life i wasn’t comfortable with the idea of being tiny and i once passed up the perfect apartment because it didn’t have a walk-in closet the size of a small bedroom. I was a contented urban apartment dweller, working my way up the corporate ladder finding … Read more
I’m closing in on 17 years of publishing this blog and decided to step back in time and look at the history of the blog and see if it is still relevant in 2024. The way I discovered tiny houses in 2007 was not by looking for them but by … Read more
Yessi and Bobby live in a beautiful 15-foot-wide park model tiny home on 5 acres in the Texas Hill Country. Fortunately for them, there are no legal obstacles to doing this in their small town. That’s why they felt confident investing in their tiny house and homestead property. As they’ll … Read more
If you live in most of the U.S. you probably have had more than enough of snow. Sorry, but there is one more snow-related item we need to discuss: a tiny snowmobile camper. Drew of Drew Builds Stuff converted a bike camper into a snowmobile camper. You heard that right. … Read more