Popomo on Fox Business News

Fox Business News recently ran a video featuring Tumbleweed’s Jay Shafer and his tiny Popomo house which was parked in the middle of Manhattan. The 172 square foot Popomo was on its way to the East Coast of the U.S. and Jay was interviewed about it and his other tiny … Read more

New York Mini-Studio

A couple years ago, Manhattan architect Luke Clark Tyler lived in a 96 square foot apartment. Instead of upsizing with his latest move, he chose to squeeze himself and his belongings into even less space. Luke now lives in a 78 square foot shoebox studio. It’s too narrow to fit … Read more

Tiny House Video

Kim a reader of the Tiny House Blog discovered this video and I think it is a perfect example of what can be done with a little hard work and enginutity. I am not familiar with the language in the video, but I’m sure it is European. This person took … Read more

Update on Angelica and Nic

Aldo and Nic purchasing nail sets

About a month ago I put up an announcement about Angelica and Nic who were looking for a place to volunteer to get some experience building a tiny house. They wanted to do this so that they would feel confident enough to start their own tiny home.

Here is an update and some photos from Angelica on what they have been doing during their time off.

Aldo and Nic purchasing nail sets
Aldo and Nic purchasing nail sets

First, thank you thank you thank you so very much for having the tiny house blog, it’s been a true blessing! As I explained in my email a few weeks back, we did find someone through our ad advertising “free help building someone’s tiny house.” Unfortunately, things did not work out with that one.

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Deek’s $100 Homeless Hut Video

deek's shelter

I haven’t shown off any of Derek Diedricksen’s videos lately and he just came out with a new Tiny Yellow House video. I thought that as a simple shelter this first one was great I agree with Deek that it could work as a homeless shelter as well. The one … Read more

Redneck Windows for Cabins Video

Here’s a new mini-video- part of my freebie/redneck windows for cabins/budget tiny homes series….with some other news/yappage on our summer building workshop (July 9th in MA) and more. We’ll also be starting that micro-design contest (details to come) semi-soon- and thanks for agreeing to be a guest judge. We have … Read more

Book Reviews by Deek

Deek is at it again and putting out new videos right and left. This video is packed with reviews of tiny and simple living books. Deek is a jokester and performer and has a unique take on fashion. I find that most people either love him or hate him, but … Read more

The Borderless House

Both Sylvia from the Netherlands and Kai from Germany sent me this cool little movie that is worth taking a few minutes to watch. Kai who has built a tiny Tumbleweed home translates it for us. I’ve found a short film (actually an Ad from Hornbach Germany, a building supplies … Read more