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Are you thinking of building a tiny house, or just in love with the idea and the design? Here are some of my favorite resources, manufacturers, and newsletters. These sites often have free downloadable plans, tutorial videos, and links to other resources such as deconstruction salvage services and compact furnishings.
Blogs
All of these have a wide assortment of resources, newsletters, articles, links to workshops, vendor directories, tiny house plans and tiny house furnishings and appliances.
RelaxShacks: This is the blog site of Deek Diedricksen, author of Humble Homes, Simple Shacks, Cozy Cottages, Ramshackle Retreats, Funky Forts: And Whatever the Heck Else We Could Squeeze in Here:
http://www.relaxshacks.blogspot.com/
Tiny House Blog Rollup
http://www.bubblews.com/news/2571993-tiny-house-blog-roundup
Tiny House Talk
http://tinyhousetalk.com/
Tiny House Blog
http://tinyhouseblog.com/
Tiny House Living
http://www.tinyhouseliving.com/
Tiny House Makers
Tiny Texas Houses: Specializing in tiny houses made with 99% salvage material. Each hand-crafted Tiny Texas House is a unique piece of sustainable, energy efficient, healthy, livable House Art.
http://tinytexashouses.com/
Hobbitat Spaces: Aside from a super cool name, these folks have a cool design style and a focus on salvage.
http://hobbitatspaces.com/
Tumbleweed Tiny House Company: Buy plans or ready to go homes. Tumbleweed has workshops, how to videos, a great newsletter, and a nice photo gallery.
http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/
Four Lights Houses: Produces some the of the most high-functioning tiny homes available. Four Lights Tiny Houses are designed to provide homeowners with everything they want and need, and nothing they don’t.
http://www.fourlightshouses.com/
Oregon Cottage Company: Dedicated to providing healthy Tiny Homes of the highest craftsmanship to a growing demographic of individuals wanting a simpler way of life.
http://oregoncottagecompany.net/
PAD “Portland Alternative Dwellings”: Is a tiny house education, resource and consulting company based in Portland, Oregon. PAD is dedicated to making tiny house living a reality for those who have a dream to build tiny, eco-friendly dwellings.
http://padtinyhouses.com/
Prefab
ZipKitHomes: Builds prefab homes as modules and components in a controlled factory using high-tech, automated equipment. You get a precision-built, highly efficient home this is built much faster than site-built homes. The homes are perfect for cabins, 2nd homes and locations where labor costs are high.
http://www.zipkithomes.com/
Cabin Fever:
http://www.cabinfever.us.com/home.html
Tiny House Pins
http://tinyhousepins.com/
Souncivilized Tiny House Pins
http://www.pinterest.com/souncivilized/tiny-house/
Video
This is not tiny-house specific, but definitely one of my favorite TED Talks. Dan Phillips from Houston talks about building creative houses from reclaimed stuff, and shares some profound insight on why we need to change our desire for uniformity above all else.
http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_phillips_creative_houses_from_reclaimed_stuff.html
Do you have a resource that should be added to this page?
Send me an email: brad (at) highlyuncivilized (dot) com
“Tumbleweed Tiny House” Photo by Jon Callas, May 19th, 2012
Maker Faire Bay Area 2012
Used under this Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
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