BY: TIMOTHY ELLIS The Tiny House Movement has been gaining momentum recently. Some tiny home dwellers have even chosen to live completely off the grid. Others are enjoying all the amenities of being …
Think Big: How To Design A Bedroom for A Tiny House
BY: RACHEL MINAHAN A tiny house means limited space. It also means that designing can be a bit harder than it would with a big house. However, having a small house can also be a blessing in disguise s…
This tiny house B&B encourages you to explore the traditional land of the Esk’etemc people
BY: DUSTIN BATTY One of the most inspiring aspects of the tiny house movement is the sense of community and helpfulness that it promotes. Tiny house builders and residents are often willing to provide…
Tiny house designs: Life Hacks
Perhaps one of the most important – and the most fun – parts of building your own tiny house is designing the interior. Not only is this where you get a chance to express and showcase your…
This Alaskan woman built a beautiful tiny home in the forest and is offering the plans for free
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The tiny house movement is growing. As more and more people switch to the innovative and environmentally-friendly homes they, in turn, become cheaper and easier to construct. DIY b…
This couple converted a school bus from 1993 into a badass tiny home on wheels
Reddit user /Ashandrik has done something that most of us only dream about while staring blankly out of our office windows; he’s converted a 1993 Bluebird School bus into a tiny home on wheels. …
The ultimate man cave has been relocated from the dingy basement to the boundless sky
BY: CAROLINE ROLF Man or woman, sometimes you just need to escape daily stresses by retreating to your own private sanctuary. Maybe that features a faux-fur rug and a dartboard, or Dwayne Johnson post…
This sustainable tiny home is designed to be controlled by an app on your smartphone
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Getting on board with the tiny house movement doesn’t mean going off the grid; in fact, Intel just unveiled their latest creation – combining the simplicity of tiny houses with the …
These people are living like caged animals in Hong Kong’s cubicle homes
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated areas. In a city where pedestrians are crammed like sardines, utilization of space is crucial. When apartments are cubicles st…
Residents of this underground town live invisible to the eyes of surface dwellers
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Desert temperatures that exceed 104 degrees Fahrenheit have left the surface inhospitable—which is why over half of the town’s 2,000 citizens live underground. Coober Pedy, a …
Dutch architect is building off-the-grid homes in the middle of the forest (Photos)
BY: MATTHEW CHIN Dutch architect, Raimond de Hullu, is planning on building off-the-grid homes in the middle of an urban forest. His goal is to bring inexpensive eco-friendly homes into densely popula…
This guy shows you how to build a woodland fortress and make nature your bitch (Video)
An un-named YouTuber under the channel, Primitive Technology, builds a two metre by two metre hut in the woods, using exclusively materials resourced from the small patch of forest. In place of an axe…
A 9-year-old girl is building shelters and growing food for the homeless
BY: ZOE MELNYK When most children have their first homeless-person encounter, they are usually stricken with fear, confusion or told by their parents to simply ignore the less fortunate. At age five, …
If you’re sick of high rent, make like this guy and build a tiny house inside a dumpster
BY: MATTHEW CHIN With the price of rent in Brooklyn on the rise—increasing to an average of about $2,700 per month—the cost of living in New York has a hefty price tag. Gregory Kloehn, an artist based…
This city is using tiny house villages to fight homelessness
BY: TYLER FYFE It’s 5:30pm on a Friday and on the sidewalk a line is starting to build outside of the Good Shepherd Centre. Frayed blue tarps clipped to backpacks, and calloused hands clutch soggy car…
Ecocapsule is a portable, completely self-sustaining home that lets you live anywhere in the world
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Maybe your job requires you to travel or move around a lot, and you’re sick of living in hotel rooms with views of concrete parking lots. Maybe the pencil-pushing desk job has you t…
This couple bought a cave for $1 and turned it into an incredible tiny home
BY ZOE MELNYK With a steep housing market and difficulty finding a stable job, young people are turning to cave homes for a more affordable alternative. This young couple in particular, Alexis Lamoure…
Meet the couple that quit their jobs to become travel bloggers and haven’t stood still since (Photos)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Jenna Spesard, 28, and Guillaume Dutilh, 30, didn’t want to fall in the mortgage debt hole that many find themselves stuck in with a greased up ladder. She was an executive assist…
This man built a tiny home in the Pacific-Northwest wilderness for under $500
Though the tiny-house movement has attracted major attention in recent years, there are still two major problems that the average person faces when they think about building their own micro home: 1. T…
Bike campers are giving nomads a new way to travel
BY: ZOE MELNYK A number of modern nomads are taking minimalist living one step further past the van life and are instead slowly converting to the new idea of bike campers. Bike campers allow travelle…