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Dan Price’s underground home, art & philosophy on $5,000/year
When Dan Price returned to his home state of Oregon in 1990 he was determined to avoid mortgages or rent (he and his family had just finished caretaking a mansion with a heating bill of $500/month). He found an unused meadow in Joseph, Oregon and began renting it from his neighbors for $100/year (in exchange for cleaning downed trees and repairing fences).
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Home Builder Was Sick Of Camping In The Rain – Check Out His Tiny 'Shanty'
While Jeff Turner's 64-square-foot cottage turns the heads of tiny home enthusiasts everywhere, it was originally built to solve a very inconvenient problem.
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Would you live in a shoebox?
A new sort of tiny, off-the-grid home is starting a rolling revolution. BBC Autos' David Gibson chats with one of the leaders of the Small House Movement.
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Fully-Customizable Tiny Homes Start at an Affordable $22,000
The tiny homes trend is still on the rise, as an increasing number of both city and country dwellers learn to live with less and maximize their small spaces.
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20ft Off-The-Grid Tiny Shipping Container House
This off-the-grid shipping container house is one that you have to see to believe! Converted from a 20ft (6 meter) shipping container, this tiny house has everything that you need and is an exceptional example of functional, space-saving design.
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Living Small: The Psychology of Tiny Houses
For a very small, but growing number of people, diminutive dwellings are making dreams come true.
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Ordinary Trailer converted into a unique Tiny House!
One special tiny house, dubbed the Kirkwood Tiny House, takes an ordinary trailer and flips it into one exquisite tiny house brimming with tons of cool surprises…
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The Escape Traveler ~ An RV, A Tiny Home and More
ESCAPE Traveler is an RV and a tiny home but so much more. Modern, inviting, comfortable, eco-friendly, economical; everything a home should be.
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‘Tiny house’ helps Raleigh couple get their boys outdoors
When Brian and Caroline Setliff of Raleigh began planning a weekend home on 10 acres of land in Saxapahaw, they knew it would be something small, to fit both their budget and their desire to get their young sons outside as much as possible.
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9 nests that aren't for the birds
These human nests are biomimicry at its best, built the way birds do with cozy comfort in mind.
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eco-Perch - Sustainable Small Tree House
This versatile small structure designed by Blue Forest can be installed as a tree house, a backyard dwelling or used as hotel units. The 4 bed retreat features sustainable construction materials and can be assembled in days.
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Tiny homes: A revolutionary design craze
Imagine a house in which – at the flick of a button – your bed descends from the ceiling, your dining table pops out from the floor panels, and your projector screen unfurls from the roof. That is the design of the new YO! Home. The studio of 420 sq ft (39 sq m), replete with Juliette balcony, can transform into four different room configurations using hidden spaces and shifting perspectives.
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Step Inside a Rad Waterfront Tower House in Louisiana
The Pond House, clocking in at 1,250 square feet, is also a net-zero energy home, meaning it produces more energy via its rooftop solar array than it uses.
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Small not Simple: Minimalist Modern Modular Home Design
A summer home should be simple insofar as it is easy to maintain, inexpensive, comfortable and requires little work to get back into working condition after being idle for a while. While this miniature modular house by Tommie Wilhelmsen takes advantage of cheap materials, a simple plan and a small site to save on costs, it is also compelling in its three-dimensional spatial complexity.
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Folding Steel: New Floating Staircase for a Refab Attic Space
The challenge: replace a standard skinny ladder leading up to an unfinished attic with working stairs ... but they must be able to wrap within the same limited confines of a tiny landing. The solution: an elegant folded sheet of steel.
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College Student Builds Tiny House to Graduate Debt-Free
While many people graduate college with substantial debt, 25-year-old Joel Weber decided that he didn’t want to be one of them. To save money on room and board, the University of Texas student was determined to build his own tiny home. These eco-friendly type structures are usually around 500 square feet in size, but Weber’s abode is considerably smaller at just 145 square feet.
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Going tiny with a family | Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself
+4-3 You take one ratty camper, tear it down to the frame, then rebuild it, now it’s transformed into a home, and not just for one or two, but a family with young but growing boys. As I watched … Continued
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Tiny House Build Gallery - Videos
View the Tiny House Build Video Gallery. The tour video is 20 minutes...but very helpful and thoroughly detailed. This may be my favorite tiny house so far.
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Tiny apartment in Paris (8sq meters or 86sq feet)
You can discover in the video how we found a way to turn a tiny room in Paris into a really functional and easy to live apartment (maybe the tiniest one in town) which will be used by a au pair or the kids when they get older. Vous pouvez désormais découvrir la vidéo de la chambre de bonne (8m2) à Paris, un très petit appartement fonctionnel et facile à vivre (sûrement le plus petit appartement de la ville) qui sera utilise par une fille au pair ou par les enfants quand ils seront plus grands.
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La Maison au Bord de l'Eau, a low-cost beach house - Charlotte Perriand
Influential architect and designer Charlotte Perriand conceived La Maison au Bord de l’Eau in 1934 for an architectural competition to design a low-cost vacation home for the masses. Though she took second prize, her design was apparently ahead of its time. While the judges liked it, the working class families for which it was intended did not. She produced variations of the beach house for wealthy clients, but her original design was not built until 80 years later.
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