Mashup
Here is a list I put together of some of the key players in the tiny house movement (in alpha order):
- Kent Griswold founded the Tiny House Blog and blogs there full time.
- Michael Janzen blogs at Tiny House Design, Tiny Free House, Tiny Pallet House, Tiny House Living…
- Gregory Johnson founded the Small House Society in 2002, built his mobile hermitage and wrote Put Your Life on a Diet.
- Lloyd Kahn is founding editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, author of a forthcoming book on tiny houses, and blogs at lloydkahn.com.
- Brad Kittel owns a salvage shop and is the man behind Tiny Texas Houses.
- Jay Shafer is the designer and advocate who started the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company (he built his first house in 1997) and author of the Small House Book.
- Tammy Strobel‘s online home is rowdykittens.com where she produces the Simple Living News Update and sells her e-book Simply Car-Free.
- Dee Williams built her 84 square foot house and has lived in it since 2004. She started a company called Portland Alternative Dwellings and hosts building workshops.
And some more newcomers on the scene (new to me, that is):
- Derek Diedricksen blogs at Relaxshax and self-published his illustrated Humble Homes book.
- Jeff Hemsley & Arlene downsized, built their Mini-Mobile Cottage and towed it up to Seattle where they now live.
- Peter King is an experienced carpenter and offers workshops at Vermont Tiny Houses.
- Ryan Mitchell blogs at The Tiny Life and produces Tiny House Live!
- Alex Pino blogs at Tiny House Talk, Tiny House Lover, and Tiny House Living.
- Kevin Rose and Marian Carter designed & built a tiny house and blog at Building Gypsy Rose.
And here is what they’ve been writing about lately:
Tiny House Blog
Living Simply in Small Spaces
TINY Documentary House on Fox 31 Denver
Mon, 21 May 2012 14:00:48 +0000Christopher Smith and his girlfriend Merete Mueller of the TINY movie project were recently profiled by Fox 31 Denver. Christopher and Merete have towed their 127 square foot house to their remote property in Park County, Colorado. Their tiny house is nearly finished, but according to the video, the build took them 8 months longer [...]
Wee Irish Cottage New Build
Sun, 20 May 2012 14:14:13 +0000Mike Irish just contacted me with an update. He says, “Last year I bought a big house to remodel and it seems to take lots of money and time. I think I like the wee houses better. The good new is I have another Wee Irish Cottage almost finished. It is 8ft X 26ft with [...]
Tiny House in a Landscape
Sat, 19 May 2012 14:07:06 +0000This week’s Tiny House in a Landscape almost does not look real and you have to follow the link below to see all the photographs. I had the hardest time deciding which one to post and probably should have put them all up. This is called the Squish Studio and is designed by Saunders Architecture. [...]
Tiny House Design
more attainable & sustainable
Last Tiny House Plan Sale Until Fall
Sun, 20 May 2012 02:55:12 +0000For the next 5 days my tiny house plans are 50% off – and this is the last sale I’ll run until fall 2012. Most of my tiny house plans are just $9.95, use discount code 50PERCENTOFF to take half off … Continue reading →
Leaf House – a Tiny House in the Yukon
Tue, 15 May 2012 21:30:20 +0000I’m continually amazed with the creativity and craftsmanship coming out of the tiny house community recently. This tiny house is another excellent example. Laird lives up in the Yukon Territory, Whitehorse to be precise, and has just finished building his second … Continue reading →
Tall Man’s Tiny House For Sale
Mon, 14 May 2012 23:13:36 +0000Adam, one of my long time readers just sent me a link to a tiny house he built with his brother. The home’s design was inspired by a few of the free tiny house plans I offer here. Their adaptation … Continue reading →
Tiny House Living
Tiny House & Simple Living Newsletter
Tiny House Living – January 16, 2012
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:01:28 +0000Tiny House Living is a newsletter on tiny houses, simple living, and sustainable architecture. The following are excerpts from news recent articles. Tiny House Update www.youtube.com Damage after an EF3 tornado came through my yard. episode 15 the one with … Continue reading →
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RowdyKittens
RowdyKittens
Two Fun Words: Bike Camping
Mon, 21 May 2012 08:34:22 PDTOn Saturday morning Logan and I packed up our camping stuff and headed out on a bike camping trip with our friends Russ and Laura. We met Russ and Laura, in 2009, when we were still living in Sacramento. They were in the midst of a cross country bike touring trip and we offered to [...]
Inspiring Links: Instant Love, Happiness & Homes
Fri, 18 May 2012 09:10:36 PDT{Every week, I publish a small round-up of my favorite articles, books, photos, and other goodies. Enjoy!} First, I have to say thank you. Thank you for the sweet comments and emails about my recent post, “An Open Letter to My Dad: Love, Loss and Memories.” It means a lot to me. Second, I’m incredibly happy [...]
An Open Letter to My Dad: Love, Loss and Memories
Thu, 17 May 2012 09:40:00 PDT{Note: This letter was inspired by a column at McSweeney’s.} Mahlon, I remember the day mom came home and said she was going on a date with you. I asked mom, “Well, what’s his name?” And she said, “I don’t remember! It’s a different name; one that I don’t hear often.” When mom came home that [...]
Portland Alternative Dwellings
Little House Construction Workshop: June 11th
Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:15:48 +0000Please note: Our workshop is sold out! Mark your Calendar and join us for a one-day construction workshop on June 11, 2011 in Olympia, Washington. We’ll focus on basic tiny house construction with an emphasis on: House-to-Trailer Connection Stick-Framing and Construction Techniques Tool Use, Safety and Good Clean Fun This is a hands-on workshop. You can learn more (see [...]
Go House Go!
Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:41:12 +0000Portland Alternative Dwellings likes to set the bar small. That’s why we’re happy to announce our new, tiny how-to manual: Go House Go. This mini-booklet focuses on how to connect a tiny house to a trailer, and how to keep the walls and roof from twisting, leaning or buckling. We’ve also included information about moisture [...]
Portland Alternative Dwellings on PBS
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:48:24 +0000We have exciting news to share with you! Dee, Katy, and our most recent workshop was featured on PBS last night! Check out the segment. “Given the state of the current economy, a growing number of Americans with ordinary lives are choosing to scale down — way down. They call themselves the “tiny house” movement. [...]
Lloyd’s Blog
Lloyd Kahn is the editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications, an independent California publisher. Shelter Publications specializes in books on building and architecture, as well as health and fitness. Lloyd’s latest book is Builders of the Pacific Coast. For more info, see: www.shelterpub.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/lloydkahn
Surfrider Cafe
2012-05-21T08:15:21.337-07:00
She Wants A Tiny Home!
2012-05-21T08:09:28.809-07:00This little girl stood there and went through every page of Tiny Homes (yesterday).
Shelter Booth at Maker Faire
2012-05-21T08:30:24.804-07:00Evan and Lew at our booth. Lew set the whole thing up by himself Friday afternoon. (I'm at Verve barista center in Santa Cruz Monday morning, going back over photos from last few days. all shot with my new Canon Powershot S100, as well as a Sony Cybershot panoramic-enabled Exmoor.)
Tiny House Talk
More Freedom through Small Spaces
Elegant & Small Beachfront Home is also Modern & Functional
Sun, 20 May 2012 15:57:48 +0000This small beachfront home is the epiphany of a simple yet luxurious beach shack. It’s tiny, yet seems ‘small’. It’s a modern and open oceanfront hut which can completely close up to protect itself from the environment. It was designed by Crosson, Clarke, Carnachan Architects for a family of five (clients) and its named the Whangapoua Sled [...]
Backyard Micro Home that you Might be able to Build with No Permits
Sat, 19 May 2012 16:39:45 +0000This entire micro home including the deck is just 90 square feet. If you only include the interior, it measures just 50 square feet. This is just a bit beyond a tiny house, isn’t it? I’d definitely consider it ‘micro’. Good news is that in many areas this would just be a simple backyard shed [...]
Tumbleweed Tiny House Workshop in Boston, MA
Fri, 18 May 2012 20:03:52 +0000This is a last minute announcement for the Tumbleweed tiny house workshop in Boston, MA led by Derek “DEEK” Diedricksen, author of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks… It’s May 19-20, 2012 a Saturday & Sunday course from 9 am to 5 pm. If you can’t make it to this one no worries because there are others. [...]
Mini-Mobile Cottage
Building ( Downsizing to, Prioritizing for, Optimizing in ) A Tiny House
An Update on the Garden
2010-07-27T20:30:00.164-07:00This being only my second attempt at gardening, I think that it's going quite well. In a previous post on gardening I listed what I was going to plant. Almost everything grew like weeds. The photos were taken on May 25 and June 27. I did have a couple of problems though. Bell pepper, corn and cucumber seeds never sprouted. And I bought bell pepper and basil plants, but the things aren't growing, t ...
An Analysis of the Tiny House Blog Network
2010-05-28T10:28:32.786-07:00Do you have a tiny house blog? When you write something, how many people read it? One way to make a guess at how many folks read it is how many folks comment on it. But if 3 people comment on it, dose that mean only 3 people read it? No. Generally, more people read than comment.How about followers? Maybe you have statistics that say 40 or so folks "follow" your blog. So does that mean 40 people re ...
The next project is the drapes
2010-05-09T10:23:05.080-07:00Now that I've painted, I've figured out what I want to do for drapes. I was looking for a woven material so we'd let in lots of air and light. At night we can close the honeycomb blinds for added privacy and darkness.What we have hanging now is liner material, like bleached muslin, scavenged from some old drapes. Yesterday I bought off-white burlap for the drapes and oatmeal colored linen-like rib ...
The Tiny Life
Tiny House, Tiny Living, The Tiny Life.
Nindo Micro House
Mon, 21 May 2012 13:00:11 +0000I posted a photo of the outside of this house a long time ago, but wasn’t able to come up with any more photos. I have a fascination with modern houses that I am torn over, but this is a very normal house when it comes to the modernity spectrum. The house is 146 square [...]
Wardell House
Tue, 15 May 2012 21:39:23 +0000This is an interesting container home because its a home, but it’s actually inside another home. Basically the owners designed the two containers to handle all the sleeping, dress, and bathroom needs of this family of four, but then placed the two containers inside a huge loft apartment which basically serves as their outdoor space [...]
We, The Tiny House People
Mon, 07 May 2012 18:22:01 +0000Recently a full length documentary on Tiny Houses called We, The Tiny House People. It is a great documentary on the Tiny House Movement that even had a few tiny house I haven’t even seen, which is pretty impressive. The idea came to her when she was sitting around bored at her parents retirement home, [...]
Relaxshax's Blog
tiny cabins, houses, shacks, homes, shanties, small livin', redneck thrift, and recycle-building/construction
Yes, this is STILL the OLD BLOG….but here’s a new video….
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:16:33 +0000I was sick of seeing the old last post on this version of the blog….so although this site is DONE- and has moved to www.RELAXSHACKS.com on another host….here’s a new video on a tiny homeless shelter/cabin/house I built for Make Magazine…. My new book is out 2012 through THE LYONS PRESS- a new, VERY expanded [...]
GO TO OUR NEW SITE!- this is THE LAST POST on this one site (WE MOVED)
Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:58:05 +0000From now on, PLEASE GO TO OUR NEW and CURRENT SITE! (click on anything below) THIS IS THE LAST DOUBLE POST ON BOTH THIS SITE, AND THE NEW ONE/NEW HOSTED SPOT….we WILL keep this old site up with its 400 or so archived posts though- so don’t worry if you’ve been featured, interviewed, etc- we’ll [...]
A tiny sailboat/home tour of a Catalina ’25 from Kevin Coy (Small Space Living/Downsizing)
Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:08:56 +0000Only ONE more day of posting here- we’re now at a new location- RELAXSHACKS.COM (and not relaxshax.wordpress.com)- Please bookmark us and check out the new site! Reader Kevin Coy (and fellow tiny-house enthusiast) recently sent me this lil’ video tour of a Catalina 25′ cabin-cruiser- as a possible ultra-tiny, budget friendly alternative to small/micro-housing/homes. I’m [.. ...
