Happy Monday! We start with a woman who built her own off-grid tiny house alongside her carpenter dad and has lived in it for eight years β then a brand-new park model with no loft at all, two homes designed around real offices, a lilac tiny house that slides out, a luxury village in Alabama, and one scam warning worth two minutes of your time. π¨ Built With Her Dad for $30K New today: Caitlin wanted to build her own home, so her carpenter dad joined the crew. Three years, a 24-foot trailer...
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Happy Sunday! Community day. We start with a 285-square-foot tiny house for sale on a wooded lot in an actual South Carolina community β lot rent included β then a box truck built after a divorce, a new Virginia law that finally makes backyard ADUs buildable, and five more small homes and the places that hold them. π 285 Sq Ft in a Real Community New today: a 2016 Sprout by Mustard Seed on a wooded lot at Lakewalk in Greer, South Carolina. $84,500, and the $500 lot rent covers electric,...
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Happy Saturday! Video tour day. We start with a family who sold their Portland house and spent nearly eight years mortgage-free in 290 square feet, then head to a Czech shop turning old refrigerated trailers into tiny homes β and six tours worth watching. π‘ 8 Years Mortgage-Free in 290 Sq Ft New today: they sold a Portland house so Dad could stay home, bought land in Port Angeles, and raised their daughter in 290 square feet. Now the tiny house is for sale. π Old Reefer Trailers, 344 Sq Ft...
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Happy Friday! Adventure day. We start with a moving van that a guy turned into a genuinely finished off-grid home, then head out to a London double-decker parked in Italy, a wheelchair-accessible ProMaster, a 1979 VW pop-top, and four more rigs built to keep moving. π A 25-Year-Old Moving Van, Off-Grid New today: most people look at a worn white box van and see deliveries. Maxwell Peters looked at a 25-year-old Ford E-350 and saw a finished home β solar on the roof, a full galley, tall enough...
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Happy Thursday! Four new posts this morning β a teacher who retired into a $68,000 cabin, a Japanese-inspired build in Santa Fe, the best-priced lakefront lot at Canoe Bay, and 32 volunteer-built homes in Seattle. Plus four from the archive, all in the trees. ποΈ A $68,000 Retirement Cabin New today: after 24 years teaching in Florida, Brian wanted something permanent but still movable, and closer to the trees. He found it in a Wisconsin agrihood for $68,000. βοΈ A Solar Dome on 42 Acres Three...
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Happy Wednesday! Two new posts this morning β a woman who built her own tiny house at nineteen, and a spare bedroom you can park in the garden. Then five of the most popular, quirky homes in our archive. π οΈ She Built Her Own Tiny House at 19 New today: Annie was nineteen, hated how temporary renting felt, and built her own place for $45,000 β pink kitchen, back porch, no regrets. ποΈ A Spare Bedroom You Can Park Outside Also new: CozyCo's Cub has no kitchen, and that is deliberate. A studio...
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π Every listing below is new since our last issue β nine tiny homes, park models and camper vans that have just come on the market, from a $39,500 glass cube in Dallas to a Sprinter with one mile on the odometer. Take a look while theyβre still available π π€ A 106 Sq Ft Glass Cube With a Bed Under the Floor, Dallas β $39,500 A 12.5-foot cube of glass and charred wood, built in 2017 as an HGTV prototype. The twin bed slides out from beneath the floor, which is how 106 square feet still works...
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Happy Monday! Today leans toward homes that also have to work for a living β a barndominium with a gym and a workshop in it, a log-cabin office on wheels, a garage ADU, and a 320 sq ft build designed around a desk. ποΈ 500 Sq Ft With a Gym and Workshop A family fitted a home, a gym and a working workshop into 500 square feet of barndominium. The trick is that the shell is one big volume, so the walls go wherever the use demands. π $119K Sprinter With 1 Mile On It New today: a 2024 Sprinter...
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Happy Sunday! Today is about neighbours β fifteen communities you could actually move into, seven that feel like family, a village on an Ohio lake, and a new pod on a New South Wales farm. ποΈ 15 Places You Can Live Tiny Now Not a wish list β fifteen real tiny house communities across the US that are open and taking residents, with what each one actually costs and asks of you. πͺ 7 Communities That Feel Like Family The difference between a tiny house park and a real community is almost never...
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