Welcome! If you’re looking for information about building a tiny house, or a real-life example of the tiny house movement in action, you’ve come to the right place! We live on a completely off-grid homestead in NE Missouri with our two young children, and our 350 square foot tiny house was built by my husband over the course of a year and a half. I’ve shared the process of building our homestead from scratch on this blog.
A few of my most popular posts about our tiny house experience are:
Why Build a Tiny House
How Much Does it Cost to Build a Tiny House
Tiny House Tour :: Living Room and Bedroom
and the Building a Tiny House series:
Building a Tiny House
Framing, Windows, and Doors
Little Details
Siding and Tiling
Insulation
Bedroom Plaster
Mudroom Tile
A Homestead Pantry
This great infographic was generously shared with me by the folks at CustomMade.com and illustrates some of the many benefits of living in a tiny house!
What do you think? Could you downsize to a tiny home?
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Less Is More:The Tiny House Movement
Infographic by CustomMade
I am 65 y/o, single, and pretty tiny myself. I love the idea of a tiny house. My only problem would be my many books. Are there tiny house plans for book-worms like me?
I think you have to do what we have begun to do – create shelving everywhere! We love books also, and currently have many of our books in boxes in a shed. It’s so hard to know they are out there, difficult to access.
Thanks for the break down!… I’ll be sure to share it with the non- believers the next time I’m speaking of my plans!… Look, a bedroom is important, but we don’t need Queen Anne furniture… If the world would & it could, wake up this it the way to go…yeah, if you’re at the point in your life that you’re raising little ones , you do need to have more space, however, not the space that allows so much space to take place that all of a sudden, they are grown…
Yes, it’s true. We’re trying to find a nice balance between the space that we’ll need now and the space we might need later.
Love this post! Thanks so much for sharing! My boyfriend and I are planning on going tiny in 2015, I’ve already started reducing my belongings and it’s such a freeing/liberating experience. Can’t wait to officially becoming ‘part of the movement’. 😀
Best of luck with your tiny adventure!
We bought our house knowing we wanted a little one. I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s a “tiny house” (926 sq.ft) but from your graphic, well under the US average. I always love to say that little homes are filled with more love, less division and more togetherness. Not to mention there is a lot less to clean! 🙂
I once read another definition of a tiny house being less space than you think you need. A family of four just barely fits into a 350 square foot house, as I’ve discovered. A 800 square foot house would be perfect for us, even spacious, and still quite tiny.