Connor and his wife live in a 314 sqft, 20’ off-grid yurt in western Oregon on his friend’s forest property. It is their temporary tiny home for the next few years, while they plan and save for their future tiny house build. As Connor puts it, yurts are living structures. … Read more
Join several of your favorite tiny housers from the movement and TV for a special story time of The Big Adventures of Tiny House. This is a inspiring story of adventure and community, and most importantly a fresh take on the meaning of home. An old farmhouse reinvents himself. He … Read more
Follow me here. I was thinking about some of the old Christmas specials that were made in the 1960’s. That led me to a mental picture of an abominable snowman and an igloo from the 1964 stop-animation of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Now I honestly don’t know if the snowman had an … Read more
We have lived in a yurt two years now. I heard last night that the mind is a ‘discounting muscle’ – it’s a survival technique; we minimalise big, important things over time in order to cope. For example, when humankind used to live a treacherous hunter-gather life, if we spent … Read more
Guest Post by Josh Barry The technology for outdoor living has come a long way since nomadic Mongolians first created Gers, commonly referred to today as Yurts. In fact, the first instance of Yurts in recorded history dates back to hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus! Yurts were … Read more
We moved to northern Minnesota from Denver when we retired. Erik had taught with Outward Bound up here for many years; I’d grown up in a mining town in Colorado; and this was affordable. So here we were. While there’s a lot more water up here than there is in … Read more
Mollie Busby and her husband, Sean live in a yurt in Montana and when they tell people about it they get all kind of reactions.
Such reactions are questions like what is yurt? They have no clue what they are. Another reaction is disbelief as most people associate yurts with a summer camp, glamping or ski warming huts in the mountains.
Then there are those people who are very much aware of it and would like to do the same thing. They want to know how they can live this dream as well.
Guest Post by Phil A couple years ago we decided we would like to buy some land to possibly retire on or at least have a place to visit. As we got to looking, we had a few things on the list that we required and one of them was … Read more
While at the Tiny House Jamboree in Colorado Springs, Colorado I had the opportunity to see first hand the Freedom Yurt Cabins that I covered here on the Tiny House Blog a couple of months ago. You can read the post here.
It was fun to see first hand the quality and build of this unique hard wall yurt. I also had the chance to get to know the father and son team behind this new tiny house option. Richard Barry is the President and CEO of the company and his son Josh is Co-General Manager and Sales Manager.
I’m a big fan of yurts and I think it comes from growing up in Arizona where I was around the Navajo hogan and learned to appreciate the circle as a living space. I recently discovered a new yurt company based in Colorado Springs, Colorado called Freedom Yurt Cabins. I’ve … Read more
Our good friends and fellow cruisers Eben and Genevieve Stolz live aboard Necesse, a 41′ Morgan Classic sailboat, with their two little girls Arias and Ellia. They share a passion for simplicity and adventure traveling the world with their tiny floating home. I was reading Genevieve’s blog, It’s A Necessity, … Read more
