Tag: tiny house
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Web Designer Builds His Own Tiny House
Alek Lisefski, a 29-year old freelancer designed and built his own tiny home in 2012, after deciding that paying a high rent was just not a viable option. The tiny home he built rests on an 8-by-20 flatbed trailer and can be towed around the country as necessary, or desired. He designed the house using…
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Micro Apartment Transformed Into a Comfortable Dwelling
Former airplane interior designer, Steve Sauer, worked hard to transform a tiny closet space in Seattle into a functional apartment, which is also known as a “pico dwelling.” The apartment measures only 182 square feet, yet consists of two beds, a full kitchen with a dishwasher, a bathroom with a shower, and a soaking tub…
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Hand-Built Rustic Modern Tiny House Available for Rent
Michael and Jenny have recently completed a modern version of a tiny rustic house in Portland, Oregon. The tiny house was designed from the ground up by the couple and it took them from October 2012 through January 2013 to build it. The tiny house is built of primarily wood, and they only used materials…
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A Tiny Home Made of Fabric
Tanya Shukstelinsky of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Israel, came up with a totally novel idea for a micro home. Cocoon, as she called her creation is a thin, multi-story shelter, which is nestled between two layers of fabric. It is also extremely mobile as you can simply fold it up…
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Grain Silos Are a Great Alternative to Shipping Container Homes
Sukup Manufacturing is a small company based in Sheffield, Iowa, which primarily manufactures agricultural products, which includes grain bins. About three years ago, Sukup also began manufacturing grain silo homes to be used as disaster relief housing in Haiti following the devastating earthquake there. They called this grain silo home a Safe T Home, and…