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Miniopolis Tiny Homes Helping to Rebuild Fort Myers

When Hurricane Ian hit the Florida coast last year, over 5,000 houses were destroyed and many families left without homes. Brian Sodre of Miniopolis is hoping to remedy some of the pain by building prefabricated small homes on concrete slabs. Rather than wood, the homes are built with SIPs, or … Read more

Lumber and steel prices too high? SIPS might be the answer.

by Christina Nellemann

The buzz around building these days is not the buildings, but the cost of materials. Because of the pandemic and renewed interest in remodeling and new construction, the demand for lumber has gone through the proverbial roof. Structural Insulated Panels can be used to build any size home. Currently the … Read more

GoSun Dream Off-Grid Tiny House Coming in 2021

by Christina Nellemann

Many people are hoping that 2021 will be the year where we can forget all about 2020. It’s also the year that an innovative tiny house will be coming to the market to offer off-grid, energy efficient tiny living. The Dream is a brand new design from GoSun, a solar … Read more

Sing Core SIP Sale and Free Book

by Christina Nellemann

The Sing Core company, and builders of the Sing Tiny House, are having a clearance sale on their reinforced structural insulated panels and are also giving away a free book on tiny houses, “Sing a Song of Tiny House“, about the tiny house “rebellion” and the benefits of their lightweight … Read more

Cubicco Cabana

by Christina Nellemann

For anyone living in hurricane prone areas of the U.S., a new prefab company is designing and building units just for you. Cubicco designs and builds various sized units that can be attached together to create a larger building, but the one that is attracting attention is the tiny Cabana … Read more

Scaled Solar for the Tiny House Off Grid on the Cheap

by Kent Griswold

by Joe Zummach Here are some pictures of my system. First, of course, are the Solar panels which consist of two 50 watt panels wired in parallel and then connected by way of charge controller to two deep cycle golf cart batteries. They use a 6 volt wired-in series to … Read more

Building a solar generator

by Kent Griswold

Guest Post by Bill Brooks As many of you know, I recently completed my tiny house on a trailer. I plan to travel to a few locations beginning this winter. I built my tiny house to be self contained, since most of my time will be spent in places without … Read more

Burlington Microhome

by Christina Nellemann

Moonlight in Vermont? Sunlight might be better for this tiny solar powered home built by Alex Carver and Christopher North of Northern Timbers in Vermont. The Burlington Microhome is a 100 square-foot modular house that is off-grid and ready for additional modules to be added to it if needed.

Northern Timbers built the microhome with design help from landscape architect and metal artist H. Keith Wagner.

Much of Northern Timbers’ work reinterprets the traditional Vermont vernacular by introducing new applications of diverse materials into the residential setting, resulting in homes with a practical yet creative aesthetic.