The Tiny Life

Heating a tiny house in the winter has it’s challenges. Now that we’ve moved to Vermont from the sunny South we’re doing research into heating appliances. We have been talking...

A-frames have always fascinated me as a bit of nostalgic architecture, but also as an interesting snapshot of American optimism. They rose to popularity in a time when many were...

Navigating gift-giving around the holidays is often tricky for those with minimalists on their list. After all, how do you find gifts for minimalists when they don’t buy, need, or...

When building, tiny house electrical questions are bound to come up. I know I had a million of them: How does a tiny house get power? How do I wire...

Many people have asked me about tiny houses with slide outs as a way to extend the living space in a tiny house. So today I wanted to break down...

Understanding how much a tiny house weighs is a critical step that, if done wrong, can easily lead to disaster, sometimes with deadly results.You don’t want to end up in...

Many people are interested in building a gooseneck tiny house, also known as a fifth wheel tiny house. These houses are built on a special style of trailer, often referred...

If there is one thing I love about my tiny house, it’s the tiny house hot water heater I currently have. After living in my tiny house for over 7...

Plumbing in a tiny house can seem daunting at first — I know when I built my tiny house it seemed that way. But what I came to realize after...

One of the first questions I asked when building my own tiny house was how big should a tiny house be? There are several ways to answer this question, but...

Many people don’t like the idea of climbing a ladder in their tiny house, so building in a set of tiny house stairs is an option that has become more...

More and more people are turning to builders of tiny homes to build their house.  When I first started the tiny house movement everyone was building their own tiny house,...