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Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

Tiny House (presented at: WindermereSun.com)

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Just a quick note to let you know that for those of you who are handy or would be interested in building your own Tiny House, Ryan Mitchell (Tiny House’s best selling author) is giving away a free copy of planning for Tiny House + One-on-One Design Consult in about 5 days.  The giveaway time zone is EDT. The design/plan is valued at $199.  Ryan Mitchell promised that one person will win a free copy of Planning Your Tiny House AND get a free One On One Design Review with tiny house’s best selling author Ryan Mitchell. After you’ve come up with your first design using the guide Ryan Mitchell will hop on skype to review your design with you, talk out various ideas, answer all your tiny house question and help you get closer to living tiny! One winner will be choose at random, terms and conditions apply.

I’ve also taken the liberty to provide quite a few videos of different builders of tiny houses for your viewing pleasures in this post.

To find out who Ryan Mitchell is, click HERE.

To find out more about The Tiny Life or Tiny House Building Codes, click HERE.

If you really have no idea what Tiny House or tiny house movement is all about, then please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:

The tiny house movement (also known as the “small house movement”) is a description for the architectural and social movement that advocates living simply in small homes. There is currently no set definition as to what constitutes as a tiny house; however, a residential structure under 500 square feet (46 m²) is generally accepted to be a tiny home. The tiny house movement promotes financial prudence, eco-friendly choices, shared community experiences, and a shift in consumerism-driven mindsets.

Below, I’d like to share with you some of the wonderful design ideas from various Tiny House owners:

In Oakland, California, Gregory Kloehn builds small houses out of found materials, for an estimated cost of $40.

Small and tiny houses have received increasing media coverage  including a serial television show, Tiny House Nation, in 2014 and Tiny House Hunters. The possibility of building one’s own home has fueled the movement, particularly for tiny houses on wheels. Tiny houses on wheels are often compared to RVs. However, tiny houses are built to last as long as traditional homes, use traditional building techniques and materials, and are aesthetically similar to larger homes.

Some companies have put into motion plans to create tiny home developments.

While the movement is most active in America, interest in tiny homes has been revived in other developed countries, as well. For example:

• In Japan, where space is at a premium, Takaharu Tezuka built the House to Catch the Sky in Tokyo, a 925-square-foot (85.9 m²) home for four.
• In Barcelona, Spain, Eva Prats and Ricardo Flores presented the 300-square-foot (28 m²) House in a Suitcase.
• In Britain, Abito created intelligent living spaces apartments of 353 square feet (32.8 m²) in Manchester; Tiny House Scotland has created the Nesthouse – a 23 m² (250 sq ft) modular moveable small eco-house to explore the possibilities of sustainable small-scale living  in a highly insulated timber framed structure with some Passivhaus principles ensuring very low energy usage. These houses cost 155,000 euros
• In Germany the community of Vauban created 5000 households in an old military base in Freiburg. The planned density of the building on that area is of 50 dwelling units per acre.
• In Germany, British architect Richard Horden and the Technical University of Munich developed the Micro Compact Home (M-CH), a high end small (76-square-foot (7.1 m²)) cube, designed for 1–2 persons, with functional spaces for cooking, hygiene, dining/working, and sleeping.

Gathered, written, and posted by Windermere Sun-Susan Sun Nunamaker
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