"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian." ~ Frank Herbert The conversation of minimalism and living in a minimalistic fashion has become almost synonymous [...]

The illustrious Vina Lustado of Sol Haus Design and the Tiny House Collaborative is an incredibly talented and humble tiny house designer, builder, dweller and advocate. Not only have  her sustainable tiny house designs gone around the world, she has help lead up major advocacy efforts in Ojai, CA. In fact, Ojai is on the doorstep of being the second Californian city to adopt [...]

Several eclectic and cozy designs are now available for rent from the Live a Little Chatt. company in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Located at the base of Lookout Mountain, the tiny houses are available for rent on Airbnb and give a interesting look into some new designs. Live a Little Chatt. offers several tiny homes (and a cave house) at the base of Lookout Mountain. One of [...]

Why settle for a tiny house, when you can have a whole tiny town? It may not be as crazy as it sounds… All along the northern coast of Spain are quaint little villages among the verdant hills of Galicia, a rocky coastal region known for its fishing trade and animal husbandry. Quaint little homes made of stone, with slate roofs and cobblestone pathways are nestled here [...]

The ESCAPE brand of tiny homes are some of the most memorable. Forbes has even called the homes “the most beautiful Tiny Houses in the world.” The latest ESCAPE design, Vintage, is also the company’s most affordable. ESCAPE is also offering a special for the first 10 buyers of the Vintage. They will deliver the home to almost anywhere in the lower 48 states for only $99. [...]

New Frontier Tiny Homes in Nashville has been making waves with their Alpha Tiny House. The $95,000 HGTV featured home is beautiful, but might be out of the financial range of most tiny home buyers. Luckily the company has a more affordable option. The custom Cedar Mountain Tiny House is $69,000. The Cedar Mountain Tiny House, a custom home by New Frontier might fit the [...]

During the Tiny House Jamboree I had the chance to visit nearly 50 tiny houses, but there was one in particular I kept coming back to over and over…and I couldn’t figure out why. The Prairie Schooner by Wander Homes in Lufkin, Texas was not particularly large or dynamic, but there was something about it that really appealed to me (and I think to the thousands of people who [...]

During the Tiny House Jamboree in Colorado Springs there were plenty of tiny homes to tour and inspect. One stood out to me because as soon as I walked inside I exclaimed out loud, “Why hasn’t that been done before?” I was talking about the house by Darla Vercruysse of Tiny Houses by Darla. She placed the staircase to the sleeping loft at the back of the house—keep [...]