A Tiny House on a River Island

Tiny House on a River Island Jessica Helgerson Interior Design

Sauvie Island Portland OR – Jessica Helgerson Interior Design Built: 1940 Renovated: 2009 Area:  50m2 (540 sq. ft.) When the owners bought this home in 2008 they decided to try to live within the existing footprint.  Step 1 was to design the interior for maximum efficiency. The owners also wanted to recycle as much as possible.  Here is an except […]

ProtoHaus

ProtoHaus

Isn’t this tiny home on wheels interesting? Protohaus was built achieving functionality, sustainability and beauty. This home, with an exterior dimension of 22’x8’6″, was built on a trailer bed which can carry around 14,000 pounds allowing its owners to transport the entire house from one place to another. Now that’s a tiny house and a vacation home/cabin! The […]

Garage Transformation

Garage Transformation

Washington, United States – Michelle de la Vega Built area: 23 m2 (250 sq. ft.) Photography: Ira Lippke Michelle de la Vega is a visual artist, designer, welder.  Here is her conversion of an old, disused garage into a 23 m2 (250 sq ft) mini-home. The roof was raised 1.2 metres (4ft) to accommodate a lofty sleeping area and a […]

Toronto’s Tiniest Home

Toronto’s Tiniest Home

Toronto Canada Year Built:    1912 Built Area:     300 sq. ft. (27.8 m2) At just over 7 feet wide (2.2m), this must be one of the narrowest fixed homes in the developed world.  It also ranks as one of the smallest we’ve come across, excluding those built on trailers. The home was built […]

Arched Cabins

Arched Cabins

Texas – Arched Cabins While custom tiny homes offer a simpler and less expensive lifestyle, most of them pretty much require robbing the bank before you can own one. But these tiny homes by Arched Cabins are a different story! For as low as $960, you can get their basic kit – minimally insulated and finished with basic […]

La Tiny House

La Tiny House

Want to live a simpler but more adventurous life? By less, we mean you spend less money on utilities and still live life to the fullest. Perhaps La Tiny House can help you realize your dream! If you’re living in France, that is. La Tiny House is a company that custom builds tiny homes on wheels. Unlike […]

The world’s narrowest home?

World's Narrowest, Keret House

The Keret House  Warsaw  Poland  –  Architect:  Jakub Szczesny Photography by Bartek Warzecha, Polish Modern Art Foundation Built:   2012 Area:   Unknown but miniscule We’ve featured, what we considered to be, some extremely narrow homes but surely, this has to be the narrowest fully constructed ‘home’ anywhere!  At it’s narrowest, it’s just 72 centimetres (28″) before widening out to a […]

Earth House – An Ode to Yoon Dong-joo

Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do, Korea – Byoungsoo Cho Site area:     660m2 Floor Area:    32.49m2 Project Year:     2008-2009 Photography:     Wooseop Hwang, Yong Gwan Kim It would seem odd to think of a 14m x 7m concrete box set deep in the ground as a ‘house of the sky’ and yet it is! The tiny home […]

Roll It

Roll It Germany

Karlsruhe, Germany – University of Karlsruhe Could you live in a cylinder? This is the ultimate experiment in low-cost housing. Called ‘Roll it’, it was designed and built by collaborative teams at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. Comprising of three independent cylinders, the unit is a complete dwelling with a bed/sitting/study area, an exercise ‘room’ […]

Tiny House with Drawbridge

Ontario, Canada – Greenmoxie Floor Area: 340 sq. ft. Photography: Gary Mulcahey This home may be short on space but definitely not on style and function. It even has an electric draw bridge deck, which serves as its most distinctive feature! This drawbridge, when opened, serves as a deck large enough to fit a dining set […]