Tiny House
Our Tiny House 2.0! Start To Finish Build of Our NEW Tiny Home!
Our Tiny House 2.0! Start To Finish Build of Our NEW Tiny Home!
In this very special episode we join forces with the incredible team at LJM Tiny Homes in Queensland to design and build a BRAND NEW tiny home for ourselves! This video showcases the full build from start to finish!
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Big Design Ideas For Tiny Bedrooms!
Big Design Ideas For Tiny Bedrooms!
There are a few really good design principles that can help you make the most of your tiny / small bedroom or sleeping loft and in this episode we explore some of our favourite ideas.
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Big Design Ideas For Tiny Kitchens!
Big Design Ideas For Tiny Kitchens!
In this episode we take a look at some of our favourite tiny house kitchen design ideas.
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Top Small Living Room Design Ideas! 💡
Top Small Living Room Design Ideas! 💡
In this episode, we deep dive into design ideas for small lounges and living rooms. It's probably the room you'll spend the most time in, so
it's an important one to get right! Trust me about this, because when I designed my first tiny house, I certainly messed this part up! 😂
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Big Ideas For Small Home Offices!
Big Ideas For Small Home Offices!
More people than ever are now working from home and that includes tiny house people! In this episode, we take a look at some of the best compact home office ideas for people who live in small homes.
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A Composting Toilet For Tiny Homes On The Move
A Composting Toilet For Tiny Homes On The Move
The SunMar GTG is one of the most compact and economical composting toilets on the market, which makes it a great option for small spaces.
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Travel
World's Coolest BnB’s: Must-See! 🤩
World's Coolest BnB’s: Must-See! 🤩
From floating homes to the most stunning treehouses, this video explores some of the coolest small BnB’s we’ve seen on the show so far.
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Off The Grid
Super Simple Solar ☀️ Going Off-Grid With EcoFlow
Super Simple Solar ☀️ Going Off-Grid With EcoFlow
This week we do a deep dive into the incredible EcoFlow power kit that has taken our brand new tiny house off the grid. This system is a game changer for anyone wanting a comprehensive off grid system of a tiny house, cabin, mobile home or back-up system for a residential home.
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Tiny House
Tiny House Trailers
Tiny House Trailers
When it comes to building a tiny house on wheels, an often overlooked yet incredibly important part of a build is the trailer. It’s often said that a house is only as good as its foundations and in the case of a tiny house, the foundations are the trailer.
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This Composting Toilet Is A Game Changer For Tiny Houses!
This Composting Toilet Is A Game Changer For Tiny Houses!
If you’re a tiny house owner looking for the perfect composting toilet solution then the Clivus Multrum LP is one you need to check out!
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Work With Us!
Work With Us!
Are you a super talented videographer with a love of tiny homes and alternative living? If so, we would love to hear from you!
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How To Find Your Dream Tiny House Parking Spot
How To Find Your Dream Tiny House Parking Spot
If you love the idea of building a tiny house but have always been worried about how you can find a parking spot, then this is a must see video.
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Top Transforming & Multifunctional Furniture Ideas For Tiny Homes
Top Transforming & Multifunctional Furniture Ideas For Tiny Homes
One thing that everyone loves about great small home design is the ability for spaces to transform and perform different functions. This week we explore some of the best examples of transforming spaces and multifunctional tiny house furniture we’ve seen over the years.
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How To Get A Tiny House Truck Ready For Travel
How To Get A Tiny House Truck Ready For Travel
See how Jude prepares her amazing tiny house truck for a new adventure on the road!
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Episodes
Most amazing tiny house features
Most amazing tiny house features
We are constantly amazed at the weird and wonderful features that people build into their tiny houses. From beer dispensers hidden in the sofa to full sized pizza ovens built into living rooms, tiny houses are an opportunity to create something truly special and unique. This video highlights some of our favourite tiny house features from homes that we have visited over the years.
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Top Ideas For Kids In Tiny Houses
Top Ideas For Kids In Tiny Houses
If you love the idea of living in a tiny house but are worried about the idea of starting a family or having children in a tiny house, then this video has been created for you! In this weeks episode, we take a look at some of our absolute favourite family tiny houses and the clever ways that people have designed their tiny homes to enable their children to thrive!
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Top Storage Ideas For Tiny Homes
Top Storage Ideas For Tiny Homes
This week, we take a look back over some of our past episodes to highlight some of the best storage ideas for tiny homes. Even if you’re a minimalist, you still need some stuff! When designing a tiny house, it’s essential that you build in enough storage space so that you can ensure everything in your home has a place.
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The Beauty Of The Bucket: Why Bucket Composting Toilets Are A Brilliant Idea
The Beauty Of The Bucket: Why Bucket Composting Toilets Are A Brilliant Idea
Throughout our videos, you’ll often hear us referring to composting toilets. In tiny houses around the world, composting toilets are especially common as they don’t need to be hooked up to sewer / waste water systems and can allow the home to be self contained.
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Brett's Tiny House on the Move
Brett's Tiny House on the Move
Brett’s Tiny House was on the move this week! We will be catching up with Brett again soon and shooting another video to see how he and the Mobile Villa have settled into their new spot in paradise.
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Building The Little Wooden House At Eden Whispers
Building The Little Wooden House At Eden Whispers
I’ve always had a sense that the more simple you can make life, the better. I am a creative, full of ideas and inspiration and I have a brain full of images and pictures. From a young age, I always wanted to build my own little wooden house, something really beautiful that I could make to my own design. I kept scrap books of images and things that inspired me, everything from interiors to colours to artists paintings and nature. Being … →
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Forest Cabin Built From Salvaged Materials Cost Only $800!
Forest Cabin Built From Salvaged Materials Cost Only $800!
For a student without a lot of money, the idea of being able to avoid rent by building a cabin in the woods may sound like a far-fetched dream, yet for a young Jacob Witzling it was the perfect solution.
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Young Woman Escapes Crazy Rent With Tiny House
Young Woman Escapes Crazy Rent With Tiny House
Increasing rent princes in many cities are encouraging young adults to search for housing alternatives. For Jackie Kemp of Denver, Colorado that alternative came in the form of a tiny house on wheels.
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How To Use Digital Images To Transform Your Home
How To Use Digital Images To Transform Your Home
Digital images are a powerful tool which when combined with printing services can allow you to customise all elements of your home! I hope you enjoy this interior design idea! We hope to bring you lots more creative ways of customising your homes in the future. This video was brought to you by Graphic Stock. Click here to get started on your own design!
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Travel
The Snow Monkeys Of Japan
The Snow Monkeys Of Japan
This week we are trying something a bit different! While in Yudanaka, Japan we had the chance to visit and photograph the Snow Monkeys. This was such an incredible experience for me and I hope you enjoy the video. Let me know if you would like to see more travel content on the channel in the future!
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Small House
McMansion Hell – The Type Of House You Should Never Buy
McMansion Hell – The Type Of House You Should Never Buy
“McMansion Hell” rips to shreds the facade of expensive, so-called luxury homes, exposing them as cheap and terrible investments.
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Man’s Forest Den Home Cost $12 to Build!
Man’s Forest Den Home Cost $12 to Build!
This cosy forest-den certainly won’t be everyones cup of tea, but this house which was constructed almost entirely from reclaimed materials and cost only 12 dollars to build has served as a comfortable home for David Gell for over 5 years now.
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Couple Build Stunningly Beautiful House Truck in Hungary
Couple Build Stunningly Beautiful House Truck in Hungary
This house truck, known as Csepellina is simply incredible. It’s not often that you come across the kind of craftsmanship that constructed this home on wheels and when you do it needs to be celebrated!..
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Tiny Houses And Permaculture For A Resilient And Sustainable Future
Tiny Houses And Permaculture For A Resilient And Sustainable Future
Peak Oil, economic collapse, global warming. There is little question that if humanity remains on the path we are on now, then there is little hope for a sustained existence on the planet. We need to change our thinking and adopt a more harmonious stance to our relationship with the biosphere. The principles of permaculture teach us how it is possible to thrive on the earth and actually have a positive impact on the environment around us and together with the … →
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Installing A Low Pitch Corrugate Roof
Installing A Low Pitch Corrugate Roof
The small roof area over the bathroom of our tiny house was a bit tricky to tackle as it needed a much lower pitch of roof. In this video Alan from BioBuild explains how to install a low pitch corrugate roof.
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Where To Park A Tiny House
Where To Park A Tiny House
With our Tiny House approaching completion, we have started looking into potential house sites. In our case there are a few criteria that the site needs to meet.
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Inspiring Ideas for Outdoor Living
Inspiring Ideas for Outdoor Living
If you are wanting to simplify your life, have a smaller mortgage, less debt, and live with more freedom, one of the best ways to accomplish this is to downsize. You don’t need much in a home. Shelter, a place to rest your head at night, and a bit of storage for food and clothes and your off! But the idea of living in a smaller space for many people is a frightening idea.
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Velux Roof Windows In Our Tiny House
Velux Roof Windows In Our Tiny House
For a long time we have dreamed of being able to lie in bed at night and look at the stars through a skylight. Thanks to our new GGL CK04 roof windows form Velux, that dream is now a reality...
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The Principles of Precycling
The Principles of Precycling
In a world where an astonishing number of objects are made to be used once and then thrown away, sometimes it doesn’t feel like enough to just be recycling. This is where precycling comes in. The idea behind precycling is to reduce waste by avoiding items that will generate waste in the first place and therefore cutting off waste at it’s source and eliminating trash before it is created. When you’re living downsized, it’s a great practice to get into, … →
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Space Saving Wall Christmas Tree Idea
Space Saving Wall Christmas Tree Idea
Recently we have been thinking of space saving ideas for Christmas trees. After all, just because our tiny house isn’t finished yet, doesn’t mean we can’t be festive, right? We were visiting a friends house when we saw this fantastic idea for a wall Christmas tree.
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Old Fire Engine Turned Into House Truck
Old Fire Engine Turned Into House Truck
This week we were in the Golden Bay area (towards the top of the South Island of New Zealand) when we stumbled upon this incredible house truck that has been converted from an old fire engine. We couldn’t help but to stop and take a look!
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10 Unique Storage Ideas For Your Tiny House
10 Unique Storage Ideas For Your Tiny House
If you’re about ready to take the plunge into building your own Tiny House, then you already know that storage, or rather the lack there of, is one of the main concerns for would be Tiny House builders. In today’s culture, we are use to ‘bigger is better’ and ‘more is better’ mantras, which means we end up accumulating a lot of stuff. For many people this accumulation can seem almost overwhelming. A constant flow of clutter that seems impossible to … →
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Tiny House Stairs & Ladders
Tiny House Stairs & Ladders
One of the most popular debates in tiny house land is between stairs and ladders. The truth is, that it really is a matter of personal preference and both have their advantages and disadvantages. Stairs and ladders was one of our most discussed topics while designing our house and in the end, for good reason, we chose to incorporate both into our design.
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Growing Food in Small Spaces
Growing Food in Small Spaces
There’s a big misconception that you need a lot of space in order to grow your own organic food. The truth is that you would be amazed at just how much food can be grown in a tiny area. Fresh, organic produce is fantastic for your health, and working with plants is actually extremely therapeutic. So, if you’re living downsized there’s still no excuse to not be growing food in your small space! One of the easiest (and also most effective) … →
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Space Saving Ideas For A Small Home Office
Space Saving Ideas For A Small Home Office
If you want to work from home but are worried that you don’t have enough space for a home office, then fear not! The good news is that for people looking to create a fantastic small home office space, with modern digital technology it’s now easier than ever. Going paperless not only helps to drastically reduce the amount of clutter in your office, it also eliminates the need for bulky items such as printers and copiers. In many cases that means … →
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Space Saving Ideas for a Small Kitchen
Space Saving Ideas for a Small Kitchen
When you’ve only got a tiny amount of space to work with, the kitchen can be one of the most difficult spaces to really get right. In this article we are going to be looking at some of our favourite space saving ideas for a small kitchen. Thankfully, it really is possible to cram a lot of form and function into a very small amount of space. Like most aspects of downsized living though, the key to really doing this … →
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