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ÖÖD House: Space-Age Meets Scandi Style

Fully bringing in nature while still creating optimal shelter was the impetus for the ÖÖD House. The ÖÖD House has three mirrored walls. Designed by Jaak and Andreas Tiik from Estonia, this unique tiny house nearly disappears into any landscape due to its mirrored walls. The Tiik brothers wanted to design a building that could withstand extreme climates yet still offer amazing views. The interior features a clean Scandinavian style. The ÖÖD House house has these views in spades with floor-to-ceiling windows on three of …

Miniopolis Tiny Homes Helping to Rebuild Fort Myers

by Christina Nellemann

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 structural insulated panels. Sodre plans on foregoing wood to build these homes and is instead using prefabricated structural insulated panels. The 500-750 square foot homes will also have what many tiny homes do not have …

Backcountry Huts Offer Nordic Style Minimalism

by Christina Nellemann

Systemizing will take a lot of the stress and guesswork out of anything. You can systemize everything from your car and handbag to even a tiny house. Backcountry Huts builds prefab, flat-pack structures for tiny living. The Backcountry Hut Company specializes not only in systemized structures but also builds their structures to leave less of an impact on the environment. Their collection of prefab, flat-packed cabins can be configured for various landscapes and lifestyles. The huts come in four designs: single story, two-story, A-frame, and …

Incred-I-Box: a $20,000 assembly line tiny house

by Christina Nellemann

In a sea of $100,000+ tiny homes, Incredible Tiny Homes made waves with their Freedom tiny house selling for only $25,000. The company has done it again with the Incred-I-Box. The Incred-I-Box by Incredible Tiny Homes is made of remnant door panels. Incredible Tiny Homes is selling Incred-I-Box for only $20,000. It is also the world’s first tiny home built on an assembly line. It is a pre-built 8×16 foot (128 square feet) tiny house that can be delivered partially furnished. The $20,000 cost does …

Living Safely in a House of Steel

by Christina Nellemann

When everything that has to do with real estate is off the charts, thinking way outside the proverbial square box is necessary. How about going with an arch? An arched steel building is a future home against wind and wildfires. The other night I re-watched one of my long-time favorite movies. “Wind” is a fictional documentation of an America’s Cup race in the early 1980s. Some of the characters in the film live in a partially derelict airplane hangar in the Nevada desert. For me, …

Palo Alto Backyard Cabin by Forever Redwood

by Christina Nellemann

In the past, Forever Redwood primarily built gazebos and garden pavilions. After having a conversation with a gazebo customer about a cabin he wanted to go along with his gazebo purchase, the seed was sparked for the Palo Alto Backyard Cabin. The Palo Alto is made by Forever Redwood, a gazebo company. The Palo Alto Backyard Cabin is a fully insulated cabin with double paned windows. In addition, each of these cabins is a built to order. They contain full windows, skylights, wooden flooring, partitions …

Modular Amish Made Cabins Start at Under $52,000

by Christina Nellemann

With winter on its way, there’s nothing cozier than a little cabin in the woods covered in snow. These said cozy cabins are even better when they can be delivered fully constructed to your site. Amish Made Cabins are modular log cabins that start at under $52,000. Amish Made Cabins is located in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The company constructs certified modular cabins made of high quality materials. Each cabin is made with hand-hewn poly-coated log siding and have pre-engineered knotty pine interior walls. Each cabin comes …

Space Age Boxvana Can Be Installed in One Day

by Christina Nellemann

It’s becoming more common to see prefab homes being erected in a few hours or a few days. However, what’s even less common is seeing a tiny home manufacturer who is the only provider of a space age modular building material. Boxvana builds tiny homes out of fiberglass reinforced polymer. Boxvana is the exclusive provider of LitePan®. This material is used to build modular buildings in a lighter, safer, cheaper, and stronger way. The material is a fiberglass reinforced polymer that is actually reusable and …

Vina Lustado’s New Prefab is Fire Resistant

by Christina Nellemann

Sol Haus Design owner and designer, Vina Lustado made waves with her sustainable tiny house way back in 2013. She has since build similar light and airy homes for clients around the country. The latest home from Sol Haus Design is a prefab home placed on a foundation. Her latest prototype is a 260 square foot prefab modular unit built in a factory and shipped to your chosen location. Each unit is placed on a permanent foundation and connected to local utilities. These little homes …

Golley Houses: Energy-Efficient ADUs in Georgia

by Christina Nellemann

The city of Decatur, Georgia near Atlanta was an early adopter of the ADU code in the southern United States. The code is also fairly generous in that it allows for tiny dwellings up to 800 square feet. One of the quickest way to take advantage of this type of rental or space option is to purchase an efficient and easy to assemble modular dwelling. Golley Houses are energy efficient homes made from SIPs. One company that is offering energy efficient tiny ADUs made from structural …

3-D Printed House Has 24 Smart Systems, Including Antivirus Protection

by Christina Nellemann

The Haus.me design is not only being touted as a smart house, but rather as a genius house. Each of the 3-D printed designs contain 24 intelligent subsystems that work together for tiny, yet comfortable living in any location. The Haus.me design has lighting and air quality systems built right into a 3-D printed model. Built in Reno, NV, each home is printed in one piece from a 3-D polymer composite that is innovative, robust, and safe. It has nearly a 10 times longer lifespan …

Healthy LivingHome 10 from Plant Prefab

by Christina Nellemann

Living a healthier life is on many people’s minds these days. One of best long-term ways to live healthy is to build healthy. Plant Prefab, located in Rialto, Calif., designs and builds high quality homes to customers’ design perspectives. Each of their homes are built sustainably to conserve water, waste, energy, and costs. Plant Prefab’s LivingHome 10 demo house in Palm Springs, CA. Plant Prefab builds each of their models in a 62,000 square foot factory. While many of their designs are over 1,000 square …