How I Downsized From 1700 to 238 Square Feet

workstation

by Ann Reynolds As an architect, my best ideas emerge from restriction, and my best clients have always been those with limited resources. What I hadn’t planned on though, was becoming my own worst client. In this last recession, I lost everything, including my job. I was forced to sell … Read more

Geodesic Houseboat Floating Waterfront Getaway

floating home

by Michael Richard Weekes WHO Michael R Weekes wanted to design and build a houseboat / shanty boat in weeks, not months, that cost less than $2,000 and could be made by one person without special tools, space / work center, or equipment. INSPIRATIONS: R. Buckminster Fuller, Bigelow Brook Farms, … Read more

Aqualodge Houseboat for Sale

Aqualodge houseboat

by Stephenie Hollyman I have been living tiny now, floating, in fact, off and on when not teaching internationally. I have a 35 foot by 12.5 foot 2006 Aqualodge houseboat I am now selling in Miami, Florida. It just came out of the shipyard with a freshly painted bottom and sterling … Read more

Floating Newlywed Home in Boston

Our floating home

by Brian Aufiero After dreaming and reading tiny house blogs and live aboard blogs for a few years we have made the move aboard. My wife and I live on a 1984 Catalina 36ft sailboat in Boston Harbor. She and I sold or donated much of our furniture, clothes, and … Read more

Karen Jenkins Tiny Floating Home

refurbished boat house

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

My “House Boat” : The “Y-knot?”

the Y-knot

by Ron Miller My “trailer on a toon” project came to fruition one evening while sitting in my backyard with my wife discussing some of the more memorable vacations we had. We both agreed that our recently purchased Chalet hard sided folding trailer was a great deal of fun, but … Read more