Tumbleweed - Part 3

Tumbleweed Adds Trailer to their Lineup

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company recently added trailers to their lineup making it easier for you to build your own tiny house. Designed specifically for tiny houses on wheels they are available in sizes of 14 ft, 18 ft and 20 ft. offering Full Porch, Corner Porch, or No Porch, these … Read more

Kirsten’s Small House

by Kent Griswold

I see a lot of “new build” stories lately, and I wanted to share our small house with your readers, since we took a different path. Our municipality has a minimum size requirement for new houses. At 44 square metres (roughly 475 square feet) it is not too bad compared … Read more

Tiny House in a Landscape

by Kent Griswold

Hi Kent, I’ve been following your blog since November when I finally moved into my own tiny house on wheels (136 sq. feet) on Whidbey Island, Washington. I started blogging about, downsizing (‘right-sizing’, as I refer to it), tiny living and on-going improvements in October. Since January, I’ve attended a … Read more

Tiny House in a Landscape

by Kent Griswold

Andy Hawkins submitted today’s Tiny House in a Landscape and shares the following: The picture I have attached is of a Tumbleweed Tarleton built in British Columbia and moved out to its new home at Windy Hill Farm in New Brunswick by its builder and owner Will Pedersen. The house … Read more

Austin’s Open House

by Kent Griswold

Austin was only 15 when he started building his tiny house. According to Jay Shafer he is the youngest person he is aware of who is proving that anyone can build a tiny home if they choose to. Austin has completed building the Tumbleweed Fencl and he is scheduling an Open … Read more

Original Jay Shafer Epu Open House

by Kent Griswold

Announcement

If you live in the Boston area be sure and go and visit the original Epu, the first built Tumbleweed that tiny house celebrity Jay Shafer built and lived in. It will be on display for an Open House this Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 1 pm to 4 pm in Boston, 88 Lambert Ave. (Avenue not “Street”)

If you can’t make the open house, fret not, as during the Boston Tiny House Building Workshop, you can also make a field trip to this very site, for a more intimate look at the structure, and with guest speakers galore….

Tiny House Dweller and Author, John Hanson Mitchell
Gypsy Wagon Builder and Dweller Sage Radachowsky
Mariah Coz and her Comet Camper, a classic Avalon she’s renovating in a green and off-grid fashion to serve as a mobile classroom.

And perhaps more….

Also the Boston Workshop (May 19th and 20th) hosted by Derek “Deek” Diedricksen will be on hand to give you a tour, and answer any questions you might have in regards to tiny housing. Derek is also teaching upcoming workshops in DC, Chicago, and NYC. The event will also double as the delayed book release event for Diedricksen’s “Humble Homes, Simple Shacks.” which spent 15 weeks as the #1 ranked Carpentry book on Amazon).