Top Five Shipping Container Homes!

Here we have this weeks collection of shipping container homes

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#1

That's all for our shipping container homes this week!

Top Ten Tiny Homes Of Last Year!

Last year being 2014

Tiny Home #10

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Tiny Home #9

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Tiny Home #8

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Tiny Home #7

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Tiny Home #6

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Tiny Home #5

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Tiny Home #4

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Tiny Home #3

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Tiny Home #2

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Tiny Home #1

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Which Tiny Home Fits You?

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Which Tiny Home Fits You

Man Builds Tiny Home For Homeless Neighbor

This young man took his time and money, and put it to taking care of an elderly lady living on his street. The 80 year old lady had been sleeping in the dirt and the man just couldn't bear it anymore.

He represents everything that humans, should be, and shows that tiny homes, are for everyone.

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Want to live in Malibu for under 200k?

Tiny homes can get you there! Or to a beach in Maine, a canal in Florida, or a cabin in the Colorado mountains!

Valentines is coming up, make that honey moon vacation destination your home!

Cuddle up by a log fire in your tiny getaway in the mountains.

Or go for a walk in the sand on your own little beach.

Plots of land are cheap right now, and that's all you need to put a tiny home on. Granted you opt for self sufficient tiny homes, solar panels, rain catchers, and all natural bathrooms.

You can get undeveloped plots of land on the east and west coast for 30-100k, then the price of the tiny home is anywhere in about the same range. Bada bing, bada boom.

It's easy! Cheaper than a suburb home, and customizable in so many ways!

If any of you out there have a tiny home story, send us a message on Facebook and we could do an article about it.

Here Come The Holidays!

     Is your tiny home ready for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or just holiday spirit?


     If not, there's still time to build one!


     I mean come on, look at the spirit some of these places have got!

     Give someone the gift of a tiny home, help them build it!

Of course a tiny home wouldn't be cozy without a fireplace, or wood stove.

Wood stoves are quite popular in tiny homes. Their compact size, and affordability make them appealing to any tiny home owner. They also have the ability to heat the home quite nicely.

Aside from that, copper tubing can line the vent tube and heat a water tank as well.

But they also make the tiny home feel super cozy!

Who wouldn't want that?

We hope you all have happy holidays, and we'll be back with more updates on the tiny homes soon.

To Loft, or Not to Loft

     This was a no brainer for us, we've always wanted to have an open loft area. As for some of the other tiny homers, the loft comes with a dreadful connotation. Not everyone likes the idea of a low ceiling in their sleeping area, and many people don't like the idea of stairs/ladders.

     With a loft area you maximise your downstairs space. While also creating what could be one of two things, a cozy space, or a claustrophobic space. There's two good examples here that present this point.

This space has two skylights, and two windows that slide open to create a more open space. When we do this, we intend on having a sort of garage door that could optionally roll down over the skylights.

 

This space has far less of an open feel, and even to us, would feel claustrophobic. Though they do still have windows to give the feel that the space is more open, though not as effective as a the skylights.

     Still though, lofts are not the only option. There is the option to build a bedroom downstairs, but that uses up a good sum of very valuable space. One of the other options is to have a slide out bed like these.

This method though will make your living area double as your sleeping area. For us this was completly out of the question. The reason being was our bad experiences with such things on our boat. We had a dinette, where the table would drop down and become a full sized bed. We just didn't like the feeling of sleeping in the living room, and having to pull it out, and then put it away first thing in the morning. This is especially inefficient if there is more than one person in the house. That is because most people have varying work schedules, and one person might be up while the other would be sleeping. The challenge is that, for one person to navigate the house, the other person would have to get up and mput the bed away.

     So there is pros and cons to both, depending upon from what angle you look atg it. The biggest benefit of a loft is that instead of having to fit a whole bed, or maybe even a room, you just need space for some stairs or a ladder. Tiny home stairs and ladders come in a variety of shapes and sizes, just look here.

For starters we have the o so beautiful spiral staircases, compact and elegant.

Below we have a very compact set of stairs that have very little space to rest your feet, but allow for more space.

Here we've got a set of lengthy stairs that double as drawers. There is many variations of these stairs, the one we like best has the side of the stairwell exposed, and has closets and cabinets in it. Personally I believe this is the most effective use of space.





     Let us know what you think about loft spaces, drop into our Facebook page and leave a post. We would love to hear what you've all got to say.