Workshop in Vermont

Week of February 15. If interested please contact Peter King at  (802) 933-6103 for Details. Basic Carpentry Skills For Absolute Beginners As a team of 6, we will build a 10’ x 10’ house with a loft, and a 12/12 roof. 90% of the material will be pre-cut, allowing us … Read more

Tiny House Design’s New Look

My friend Michael Janzen who publishes the Tiny House Design blog just changed the look and feel of the his blog. The new design is based on a very simple and usable WordPress theme called QuickPress.  Michael was wanting something that was easier to read, a subdued color palette, faster … Read more

Tumbleweed Get Together

Saturday I had the opportunity to go to Jay Shafer’s home of  Tumbleweed Tiny House Company and meet Amanda Abel and her boyfriend Tyson Stottrup. Amanda is working on her thesis on Tiny Houses and had come to interview Jay and photograph his home. Since I live near by she invited … Read more

The Small House Project

Free Tiny Home Plans Until today, not much in the way of free home plans have been available for people interested in tiny homes on wheels, like Tumbleweed Tiny Houses. Because of the generosity of a member of the Small House Movement, that is changing as of today. Joseph Kenyon … Read more

Box of Tricks

24 Rooms Tucked Into One Christian and Shelly both sent me an email this morning in regards to a New York Times article about a modern and cool and high tech and very expensive tiny home in Hong Kong, that has some neat ideas we can apply to tiny space living. … Read more

Art Shanty Projects

The sixth annual Art Shanty Projects, live from Medicine Lake in beautiful Plymouth, Minnesota. Opening Saturday, January 17 – Closing February 14, 2009. Art Shanty Projects is an artist driven temporary community exploring the ways in which the relatively unregulated public space of the frozen lake can be used as a new … Read more