Eujenne and Laurin are designers who have pulled out every trick in the book to maximise functionality and take their tiny home to the next level. You won't believe all they have been able to fit into their ultra tiny, and feature packed home!

Living off-the-grid is in Grant’s DNA and his home is testament to that. Constructed from two 40ft shipping containers, his rustic home is innovative off-grid living at it’s best. It took a lot of hard work to get to where he is, but the result speaks for itself.

Architecture can sometimes feel like an open book, where anything is possible. But other times, we’re constrained by limitations like budget, regulations, or, in this case, a super awkwardly shaped lot. The designer of this ingenious 35m² home embraced the challenge, and the result is nothing short of remarkable.

This weeks episode is very a very special tour indeed. We've never seen a tiny home quite like this before. Its simple in it's design and yet the brilliant execution and styling of this home has elevated it to a whole other level!

In this weeks episode, we visit a family of four who are living in an absolutely stunning tiny home. With the help of some great design ideas, they have crafted a compact home that works like a dream for their young family.

We have never seen anything quite like this before. Situated in the idyllic french countryside is a self-resilient homestead that's in a league of it's own. Built for an incredible budget, this home and the woman who constructed it are nothing short of incredible.

This tiny home is something very special indeed. Situated on an idyllic small farm and surrounded by animals and a beautiful rural landscape, this off-the-grid tiny house is a dream come true for it’s owner Louise.

Now here is a tiny house to take your breath away. Beautifully situated amongst the park-like gardens of a mini family-compound, Lee’s tiny home is absolutely stunning.

In this video, together with Joe from LJM Tiny Homes on the Sunshine Coast, we take a look over the finished home and talk about all of our favourite features.

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!

This spectacular treehouse-style cabin sits high on a mountain with panoramic views. It’s modern charm somehow perfectly blending into the imposing surrounding landscape. This is a cabin that sits on top of the world, and yet for owners / builders John and Sharon, getting here was a hard mountain to climb.

The idea of never needing to pay another utility bill again is the stuff dreams are made of, but for Perlin, that’s his new reality after building himself an impressive off-the-grid tiny house compound.

It's been five years since we last visited Paul and Annett in their incredible off-the-grid tiny house on the Gold Coast and a lot has changed over the years.

This stunning, modern tiny home is designed like no other. Cleverly thought out in all three dimensions the interlocking spaces make it seem as though the rooms are Tetris blocks, fitting perfectly together to form a home.

This is a tiny house like no other we have seen before. An old bus, no longer drivable, has been transported onto a beautiful section and given new life as an artists tiny home amongst the trees.

One of our absolute favourite tiny homes has somehow managed to get even better! In this weeks episode we re-visit Colin and Megan and their spectacular (not so) tiny home in Brisbane, Australia. 

This project is a dream come true and we are absolutely over the moon with how this cabin turned out. We hope you enjoy the full video tour of this very special place that I have crafted for my parents retirement.

In this weeks episode, we take our cabin build to the next level adding outdoor extensions and fitting out the interior!

In this weeks episode we start an exciting project turning an awesome kit-set cabin into the ultimate modern, off-grid getaway!

Now this is a video that I didn't really want to make, but I feel it's necessary. As much as I have a truly deep love of the tiny house movement, I can't ignore that there is a dark side to all of this and that is what I would like to explore in this video.

Now here is a tiny home design executed without compromise. Upsized and fully featured this three bedroom plus office tiny home has absolutely everything. The design of this home is like a game of Tetris played at the master level.

The bright design of this home is nothing short of enchanting. With archways and plants climbing all throughout the house, this home is a tiny architectural masterpiece.

Imagine the things that we could create for ourselves in life if we had the courage to put the reasons why not aside and just give things a go. That's what happened when Manon made the decision to build her own tiny home on wheels and the result is nothing short of spectacular.

When Cat was told that her apartment had been sold and she needed to find a new place for her and her daughter to live, she responded by building a dream tiny house which gave them both the security and the lifestyle they desired.

If there are two concepts that perfectly sum up tiny house living for me, it’s freedom and resilience. The freedom to live a life of your choosing, liberating greater resources for life through choosing to live in a smaller, more manageable home with lower overheads. This in turn leads to resilience and greater ability to weather storms when they come our way, whatever form those storms may take.

Where Jono's skill as a builder and Eva's eye for design meet, something beautiful happens. Together, they have lovingly crafted the tiny home of their dreams. Now situated on an idyllic country section, this home is a true beauty to behold.

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.

These two 20ft high cube shipping containers have been transformed into an incredible modern urban home. Situated on a steep section with breathtaking views overlooking the city, this home is truly impressive.

Nestled into a beautiful backdrop of the Tasmanian forest lies Lucy’s charming cabin. Originally built by her parents in 1994 as their very first family home, the hut fell into disrepair. After years of neglect, and eventually abandonment, Lucy, working together with her father lovingly restored the old shack and it became, once again, an idyllic woodland cabin home.

Molly is an inspiring young woman who lives simply and beautifully in her dream tiny house. This is a sanctuary space that reflects her values and all the things that are truly important to her, all embodied in the walls she has built around herself. Her home.

This weeks episode takes us to the spectacular wilderness of Tasmania where we visit a stunning, Scandinavian-style, off-the-grid tiny home on wheels.

This couple has downsized for their retirement and their spectacular tiny home leaves nothing to be desired! Every inch of this tiny home has been perfectly designed for them to live big after going tiny.

This is a van-life story unlike anything you’ve seen before. Floyd is a man, living and traveling in a small van while on a huge mission to put a smile on peoples faces.

One of the huge benefits to designing and building your own home is that it gets to be perfectly matched to your character and this home is a wonderful example of just that. This house suits Linda to a T.

When you build your own home, that space should be a reflection of you and your character. That's exactly what Deb has done here. This tiny house radiates her style and highlights all the things that are important in her life.

In this weeks episode, we meet Anna, a remarkable woman who economically converted an old garage into an incredible compact, shabby-chic-styled dream home!

Welcome to the enchanting world of Hobbiton! Join as we take you behind the scenes of the iconic Hobbiton Movie Set, nestled in the picturesque countryside of New Zealand. In this episode, we invite you to step into the whimsical realm of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and discover the magic of hobbit life firsthand.

In this weeks episode we visit an inspiring, ultra compact tiny home in France which is absolutely packed full of amazing design ideas.

Working together, Kate and Benoît constructed a home which is artful and astoundingly beautiful. Amazingly, thanks to thrifty material sourcing and their DIY attitude, the home was completed significantly under-budget!

From the bottom of our hearts we want to thank you for all of your support over the past year. We've travelled far and wide and got to see some amazing places together! We hope you enjoy this years Top 5, as we recall the year that was and some of our very favourite tiny homes 2023.

It's been an amazing year and as is tradition, we are so excited to share some seasons greetings from those we've had on the show.

When it comes to radically revolutionary architecture, it’s hard to look past the EarthShip. Constructed from a mixture of old car tires and rammed earth, these homes are designed to be completely self-sufficient. They are a fantastic example of regenerative home design in practice.

When I walked inside this tiny house my jaw hit the floor. This is one of the most exceptional timber homes we have featured on the show. The level of craftsmanship and attention to detail on the interior of this DIY, off-the-grid home in South Australia is truly remarkable and all for a budget that's hard to believe!

When you think of a semi-truck-trailer, the last idea that normally comes to mind would be home. Watching this video might just change your mind about that though. Mike and Heidi are an inspired couple whose ultimate DIY project has turned an old trailer into an unbelievable place to call home!

Now this place is nothing short of spectacular! If you're a fan of minimalist, modern design then you will absolutely love this compact studio home in the south of England. Situated in an urban backyard, the studio home is technically an annex and has been beautifully designed to blend perfectly into its surroundings.

This week's story is really out of the ordinary! We visit an english backyard where an old grain silo, purchased online for only £1 has been transformed into a the most incredible tiny home.

This week we travel to France to visit a stunning DIY tiny house built using natural, reclaimed materials. It's absolutely packed full of storage and clever multifunctional design ideas and all for an incredible budget of just US$20,000! This tiny house has everything!

A DIY build using almost entirely reclaimed materials, there is a tremendous amount to love about this home. It's fantastic, feature packed design makes the home not only lively but also immensely clever and functional.

This weeks episode is my absolute favourite kind. An innovative tiny house design which has been DIY built and for a budget which is truly hard to believe!

In this weeks episode we visit an incredible DIY-built, off-grid tiny home in Wales which has almost entirely been constructed using reclaimed materials. From windows rescued from a skip to beautiful fallen timber found on country walks, each and every item in this incredible tiny home has a story to tell.

If you're living in a big city and watching your income fade away into a giant black hole of rent, then this story is for you! This week we meet Lizzie and Patrick, an inspiring young couple who built their very own, incredible tiny house for the equivalent cost of just one years rent in London city!

There are very few things in life that sound quite as idyllic as a cabin in the woods and this beautiful home in Vermont is a perfect example of just that. Katie and Drew are two wonderful people who have masterfully escaped the rate race and instead chose a simpler and more fulfilling way of life for themselves by moving into a remote cabin.

In this weeks episode we meet an inspiring couple who have designed an incredible tiny home for their young family.

Holly and Charles moved from the Blue Mountains to Queensland so they could help to care for Holly’s mother, who has Alzheimer's disease. In an effort to keep her at home and out of care for as long as possible, the entire family has come together onto an amazing family compound where they can all support each other.

In an effort to return to a more simple way of living, with reduced overheads and more time together in nature, this adventurous family gave up their city apartment, built a beautiful off-the-grid tiny house and moved to the remote Australian wilderness where they could live free and wild.

Have you ever dreamed of building a beautiful off-off-grid tiny home and moving to a rural community to be part of a growing permaculture farm? If the answer is yes, then this is a video you need to watch!

One of the core principles of tiny house design is to think three dimensionally. To make the most of the space, the ability to create zones and levels in a home is essential. In this weeks episode, we travel to Corella, outside of Brisbane to visit an architect who has designed an exceptionally clever tiny home for her, and her family.

You never know what you’re capable of until you try. When Kristyn and Laura set out to build their tiny home they had no experience, just a tremendous amount of will power, and the result is stunning. They were looking for a project and ended up building a house!

This enchanting, whimsically styled tiny home is a sight to behold. Located on a spectacular 100 hectare organic farm in France, with abundant gardens and a dream view overlooking a lake, this is a home capable of making your heart stand still for the beauty!

This week we visit an incredible cabin which is packed full of rustic charm. From the large ex-telephone polls outside, to the reclaimed timber and brick interior, this cabin’s construction shows a mastery of the art of salvage.

Now here is a tiny house with some revolutionary design! Rebecca is a designer who has poured tremendous effort into creating the perfect tiny home for both her and her son.

This round-house is something very special indeed. Completely DIY crafted and packed full of amazing design features, this is a small home to take note of! What makes this stunning home even better is that its surrounded by abundant permaculture food forest gardens and all of this has been accomplished on just a quarter acre section!

Phoebe and Luke have constructed a spectacular tiny house for themselves. It’s modern, beautifully built and enjoys a wonderfully spacious design. Parked up on a friends farm and totally off the grid, the home is surrounded by captivating rural views and is certainly an enviable place to live.

John is a builder who has given great consideration to the construction of his container home. From the spacious layout, the cleverly welded bump outs and even the special flashing system he designed for the windows, there's a tremendous amount of innovation in this home, even if a lot of it is hidden in the details.

Here, the classic cabin in the woods has been wonderfully reimagined into an architectural masterpiece.

This is a tiny house story which is close to my heart, largely because Chris’ journey into tiny house living closely mirrors my own. The amazing tiny home that he has constructed has given this talented musician a wonderful roof over his head which allows him to now focus his time on creating his music.

Now this is a tiny house that will turn some heads! DIY built and packed to the rafters in style, this home is beautiful in every which way you look.

This backyard guest home is a little bit of paradise. Overlooking a private valley, with wrap around deck and stunning glasshouse dining room which looks as though it jumped out from the pages of a fantasy novel. This tiny guest house is definitely one to take notice of.

Now here is a tiny house not quite like anything we’ve seen before. It’s one of the smallest designs we have featured, yet has some of the biggest design features including an amazing loft net, clever storage and some ultra cool design.

Bethan is an inspiring, hard working woman who was finding it difficult to get ahead in life. That was until she made the decision to build a tiny house and with that, began on her path to financial freedom.

We say tiny house, but this modern home is pretty huge as far as tiny houses go! It's still on a trailer, completely mobile and with all the benefits of a tiny home, but with a lot more space.

This week we visit a spectacular tiny house which is a childhood dream come true! After growing up dreaming of living in a house truck and a fascination with small space design, Kate was able to make her dream come true by building her own beautiful tiny house!

In this weeks episode we meet Christine, a remarkable woman who has found personal freedom through living in a remarkable tiny home set amongst the rainforest.

The main bedroom of this home is like nothing we've seen before. Downstairs and the full height of the home, it's absolutely palatial! 

Every now and then you stumble upon a home which has been constructed with true consideration and attention to wellness and quality of life and this tiny house is one of those places.

Amidst ultra-high house prices, it’s great to know there are still achievable ways of getting into your own home and your own land. This brilliant off-grid tiny house, designed for family life, is spacious, functional and has everything this young family needs.

In this weeks episode we visit Franko, a rockstar musician turned festival organiser who has built himself an incredible house bus, which is parked up in an amazing community of which he is a founding member.

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.

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. 

Brenda and Peter sold up their big home and downsized into a brilliantly designed tiny house to free up capital and live big in their retirement! Their home is super low maintenance and gives them the freedom to focus on the things in live that really matter to them, spending quality time with their family and travel!

These tiny houses are unlike any you’ve seen before. From the amazing polycarbonate walls which fill the interior with filtered light, to the genius windows design providing inbuilt seasonal shading, some seriously clever idea’s have been poured into these homes.

The Nook On The Hill isn’t your average house. Far from it. It’s small in size, but huge in heart. There’s love built into the walls of this home. Memory of friends and family. For its builders and owners, Benj and Holly, it’s a place of sanctuary and healing. 

It's been another huge year for tiny houses and as 2022 now comes to an end, it's time to look back on the year that was and some of our top tiny house tours!

It's time for the 2022 Living Big in a Tiny House Christmas Special! Christmas is one of our favourite times of the year and for our Xmas special we love revisiting the new members of our tiny house family to see how they are celebrating the season in their tiny homes!

This tiny house is a masterpiece. Packed full of ultra clever design and craftsmanship, there is a lot to love about this home. It’s ultra tall, with a pop-top roof which gives the home lots of room in the loft and has other amazing features such as a brilliantly designed duel home office’s which hides away into the lounge area. Multifunctional design genius!

It’s hard to believe it’s been three years since we first visited Matt, Lisa and the tiny house that broke the internet! With 50 million views on their first video, it has to be the most famous tiny house in the world! Today, we revisit their home to see whats new. 

In many ways, building a home is like crafting a new member of your family. It’s something that has it’s own personality and supports you through the challenges of life. That’s exactly the remarkable design approach that Sarah and Clay took with their stunning Tiny House on wheels.

This beautiful and ultra affordable tiny house is light, simple, spacious and has been stunningly styled like a beach house.

This tiny house breaks all the rules in the most brilliant ways. Absolutely filled with tiny house taboos, this home is nothing short of spectacular. 

We built a brand new tiny house! This tiny home is designed as an off-grid travel model tiny home perfect for digital nomads and modern life on the road.

In this weeks episode we meet an inspiring young woman who started with only $3000 and built an incredible tiny house for herself. You never know what you can accomplish until you try and that’s exactly what Sophie discovered when she set out to construct her dream DIY tiny house.

Brilliantly constructed as a DIY labour of love using mostly reclaimed materials, this shipping container home is also unbelievably affordable! 

Situated on 32 acres and with plenty of space for gardens and animals, this family is living the tiny house homestead dream! 

After losing her home and everything she owned in the Christchurch Earthquake of 2011, Vicki built a whole new life for herself including an amazing tiny house on wheels!

A tiny house can be both beautifully simple and luxurious at the same time and this enchanting tiny home located in the stunning Queensland forest is a fantastic example of just that. 

A cabin, a tiny house and a shipping container. Put together in this instance they create a fantastic 5 bedroom home designed to be perfect for extended family.

Situated on a dream family farm overlooking the ocean, this young woman has created a beautiful tiny house to call home. 

This tiny house in France is a musicians dream and amazingly contains a full music studio within the small footprint of the home. 

This woman's wonderful dual tiny house home and studio setup creates quality of life and freedom in both the home and the workspace.

This weeks episode takes us to beautiful Spain to visit an amazing tiny home and gardens that has been set up as a wonderful sanctuary space.

Brent and Greer started with a $2,000 house truck, and ended up building an off-grid, self sufficient paradise for themselves. 

As we step inside the Futuro home, we are walking into both the past and the future, or at least, a vision of the future from the past.

Now this home is absolutely spectacular! Inspired by a nordic longhouse, this beautiful small home is only 60m2, but packs a huge punch for such a small space! 

This spectacular tiny home is a true DIY dream. Constructed almost entirely from found and reclaimed materials, every inch of this home has been beautifully hand crafted. 

This is a tiny house that has it all! It’s open, modern, spacious and packed full of great design features that make living in this home a dream.

If you’ve ever watched Lord of the Rings and found yourself dreaming of what life might be like as a hobbit, then pour yourself a nice drink, get cozy and enjoy the tour of this tiny home. 

This ultra spacious tiny house has it all! It’s modern, beautifully designed and has one of the most incredible kitchens we have seen in a tiny house! If you’re someone who loves to cook, this is definitely a design you’ll want to check out. 

This incredible small home, located in a mountain ski town in New Zealand is like nothing we have ever seen before! Constructed out of structural straw and rendered in lime, this home looks as though it has been carved out of stone. 

In this weeks episode we are excited to invite you into this beautiful tiny home created by two inspired New York artists. Packed full of character, design flare and wonderfully unique features, this home is definitely one you’ll want to check out!

This couple are living the downsizing dream! After selling their four bedroom home, Amelia and Dan have moved into a spectacular tiny house in the country with a beautiful river and forest on their doorstep.

In this episode we meet a remarkable man who has build a dream tiny home in the trees as an ambitious retirement project.

If you're looking for a super spacious tiny house design, then this is one you'll really want to see!

Surrounded by beautiful regenerating forest, abundant organic gardens and with a private walking track down to a swimming beach, this incredible tiny house on wheels is really taking the downsizing dream to the next level!

These yoga teachers have done an amazing bus conversion and created not only a beautiful home for themselves but also a mobile yoga studio which will allow them to travel the country while teaching yoga.

If your dream is to live a self-sufficient life in a tiny house, then this episode is for you! Marie is an inspiring young DIY builder who, with no previous building experience, has constructed a beautiful tiny house.

In this episode we meet a can-do DIY couple who have built themselves an amazing tiny house on wheels! The tiny home is almost entirely constructed using reclaimed materials and the result is a pinterest ready dream home!

In this weeks episode we meet Agathe and Anton, a talented couple who set about building their dream tiny house. Constructed using natural materials and with bioclimatic concepts in mind, this tiny house has truly been a life-changing project..

This dream tiny house is perfect for family life! After spending years saving for a conventional home but constantly falling short of a housing market out of control, Lloyd and Kylee took the bold step to build an unconventional home for their family and have never looked back!

If you’ve ever dreamed of escaping the city, buying land in the wilderness, moving into a beautiful tiny house, working less and creating a magical home for your family, then this episode is for you! 

This military family have built an incredible tiny house to call home! One of the challenges of being in the military is the probability of being relocated. Needing to pack up all of your belongings and find a new home in a new city can be a challenge, but what if you could just take your home with you?

This incredible, modern, fully-off-the-grid, DIY tiny house is the stuff that dreams are made of. Inspired by permaculture principles, this stunning tiny house is filled with unique and clever design ideas.

In this weeks episode we meet Bérangère, an inspiring young woman who amazingly built her very own tiny house during lockdown in France. 

2021 has been a big year for tiny homes and we are excited to look back on some of our favourite tiny houses that we have visited this year.

In this years Christmas special we show you how some of our friends are celebrating Christmas in their tiny homes all over the world

In this video, we give an overview of the off-the-grid systems which we have integrated into our tiny house on wheels including solar power, rainwater harvesting, grey-water, composting toilet and more.

Shipping container homes continue to explode in popularity and for really good reason! In this episode we explore some of the best container houses that we have visited from all over the world and highlight some of our favourite features.

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.

Many people have been asking what happened to our campulance and tiny house in the USA, so in this episode we give you the full story. 

This week we are super excited to invite you back into our own tiny house for an updated tour. It's been a while since we last toured our tiny home and it's certainly come a long way! We also have some very exciting news to share with you all!

This amazing single level modern tiny house has given this couple their dream home! From it’s striking all-black exterior, to the beautiful and cleverly designed interior, this home is nothing short of spectacular. This is an episode you won’t want to miss! 

This week, we turn our heads towards the forest canopy and an incredible Treehouse Airbnb. Situated 14 meters (45 feet) above the ground, this treehouse is beautifully constructed and perfectly situated to take full advantage of the captivating forest vista. This treehouse is an absolute design marvel!

In this weeks episode we meet a charming young couple who have built their dream tiny home on wheels. Joel and Deborah had their tiny house constructed to lock-up by their builder but set about doing all of the interior themselves. The result is a beautiful tiny home which is absolutely packed with their own charm and character.

In this weeks episode we meet an inspiring couple who purchased a stunning property by the beach with panoramic ocean views and turned an old house bus into both an amazing family home and a dream Airbnb get-away.

In this weeks episode, we meet a family who are mastering the art of tiny house living. Originally Brad and Ruby were planning on moving into the tiny house with just their 9 year old son, however plans quickly changed when they discovered they were pregnant with another child!

This week, we visit a stunning tiny house Airbnb which has been lovingly designed as a dream couples escape and also as a place where people can experience tiny house living for themselves.

In this video we go behind the scenes of Living Big in a Tiny House to meet Rasa, the incredible woman behind the camera. 

There's no question about it, building a tiny house on wheels is no small task, especially without any prior building experience. This couple we're up for the challenge though and the result is nothing short of spectacular.

If you're a fan of shipping container homes, then this is a video tour you won't want to miss! In this weeks episode we meet Rosie, who has constructed an incredible off-the-grid home out of five 20ft shipping containers.

In this weeks episode, we meet Leanne and Dave who have built their dream tiny house in order to get out of the rent trap and find more freedom for retirement.

This cabin is absolutely loaded with brilliant design. From the striking exterior designed to nestle the home into the landscape, through to the stunning cozy interior with wonderful windows that perfectly frame the exterior environment. This cabin is unquestionably home to some truly great design.

The old Bedford house trucks are like New Zealand's tiny home's of yesteryear. Fortunately, this old truck has been given a brand new life and has been stunningly renovated into a beautiful tiny home.

In this weeks video we meet Hilde and Michel, an intrepid couple who have constructed a stunning DIY tiny house on wheels in order to help facilitate a life of travel and adventure.

Together with his wife Trish, old-school surfer Kevin has constructed two incredible tiny house Airbnb's on a spectacular section overlooking a surf beach on the wild west coast of New Zealand.

One of the things that I've always loved about tiny houses is the wide variety of people who call them home. In this weeks episode we meet Lauren, a young doctor who has built a stunning tiny house on wheels to give her a cosy place to live while she travels New Zealand gaining experience working at various hospitals around the country.

This family have created a stunning off-the-grid tiny home for themselves! Adam and Michelle are a build dream team. One a builder and the other an interior designer, between them they have created a spectacular home, perfectly designed for family living.

This spectacular high-spec tiny house is designed to be totally off-the-grid and is absolutely packed full of brilliant design features. Built by owner Mark, this DIY, handcrafted home has been incredibly well designed and constructed using top quality materials. 

In this weeks episode we meet Jason and Summer who live in an absolutely stunning, modern,  off-the-grid tiny house on wheels. This home is packed full of clever design features, wonderful art, and an impressive solar system which keeps their home powered.

This spectacular tiny house, situated on a multi generational family farm, is absolutely breathtaking. Constructed largely  from a mixture of reclaimed materials and beautiful timbers which have been found on the farm, this home is absolutely packed with charm.  Ruby grew up on this farm. The family has a deep connection to this land and it's where Ruby wanted to deepen her roots by building her own home.

In this weeks episode we meet Mike and Alison, an inspiring couple who have transformed their tiny house into a stunning Airbnb property, which has enabled them to keep their own family home.

In this weeks episode we meet a beautiful young family who chose to sell their conventional home in the city, move to the country and build a tiny house, downsizing their home, but upsizing their quality of life!

In this episode we take a look back over 2020 and some of the very best tiny house design we have seen on the show this year. 2020 has been a crazy year, filled with challenges and it's so exciting to see human creativity and ingenuity shining through.

It’s hard to believe that it’s already Christmas time again! In this years Living Big in a Tiny House Christmas special, we celebrate the season with heart-warming messages from our tiny house family around the globe.

In this weeks episode we visit Donna who has turned an idyllic corner of her New Zealand farm into a stunning glamping retreat. Designed as a glamorous getaway for couples, this picturesque corner is now a dream escape!

This incredible off-the-grid tiny house truck has been perfectly designed to be a comfortable home on the move! Solar-powered and mounted on the back of a brand new truck, this home is ready to go anywhere! Jude made the decision to construct her own tiny house truck after many years of living on the road in campers. 

There’s nothing quite like a handcrafted home. A place where people have poured all their love and hard work into creating a unique and beautiful house that’s totally their own. This exquisitely built tiny house is just one of those homes. 

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.

There’s a saying in the tiny house world that home is where you park it, but not all parking spots are created equal and this spectacular, modern tiny house has found an incredible spot to call home on an elevated hillside with breath-taking panoramic views!

This stunning, modern tiny house on wheels is wonderfully paired with charming rustic features. In this weeks episode we meet Lisa, who together with help from her brother Glen, a professional builder has constructed her dream tiny house on wheels.

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!

This tiny house design is just as unique as it is stunning! When building a tiny house on wheels, you’re working within a limited space and for that reason, the more time that you can spend on the design of your home, the more likely you are to create a home that will truly meet your needs and that’s exactly the case with this incredibly well thought out tiny house.

If you’re a big fan of modern, minimalist design then you’re going to love this tiny house. On the exterior, it’s striking all-black, trapezoidal design is incredibly eye-catching. The interior is filled with very clever spatial design and forms a wonderfully comfortable home.

So many of us aspire to own a home close to the water and it doesn’t get any closer than this! Inspired by the incredible float homes of British Columbia, this house boat in Auckland, New Zealand really is a dream home on the water!

Every now and then I visit a home which I can tell is just perfect for someone, and this is one of those places. Matilda has lived in this tiny house on wheels for the past four years, and it has become the ideal home for both her and her three dogs.

In this weeks episode we explore a beautifully crafted tiny house that has allowed a dynamic young couple to get onto their first step on the housing ladder. Especially in a city like Auckland, where the average house price is close to one million dollars, it’s hard for young people to get into their own first home. For that reason, increasing numbers of young people are turning to alternative living and tiny houses to make their start in life.

In this weeks episode we visit an incredible DIY tiny house which has been constructed to include an ultra-clever kid-safe sleeping loft design. DIY builds are often by favourite homes. You can really see where people have poured their hearts and souls into building their own home and that’s certainly the case with this stunning tiny home!

This week we explore an incredible colonial cottage style tiny house which has remarkably been constructed for only NZ$8,000 (US$5000). Almost entirely constructed out of reclaimed materials, this home is packed with a whole lot of style and character! 

In this weeks episode we visit an incredible tiny house which has been constructed out of an old grain silo and transformed into a whimsical yellow submarine themed dwelling. For those who love super creative projects, this is a must see video!

In this weeks episode we travel to the very southern edge of New Zealand’s North Island to visit an off-the-grid shipping container home which has been transported to an absolutely breathtaking location! This home is completely off-the-grid with astounding views looking over the ocean towards the mountains of the South Island.

One of the things which has always drawn me to the tiny house movement is the way that tiny houses can help to people achieve greater financial freedom. In this weeks video, we meet Michelle, an inspiring solo-mother of four boys who has constructed a beautiful tiny house for herself now that her children have left home, enabling her to save more money and enjoy a better quality of life.

In this weeks video we visit a stunning modern small home which has been constructed using 3 x 20ft shipping containers. Situated near Lake Taupo, New Zealand, this home is built on a beautiful elevated section with commanding views over the lake and to the mountains beyond.

In this episode we visit an incredible 150 year old sailing ship which has been hoisted into the trees and turned into a pirate ship treehouse. This is just one of the incredible accomodation spaces that can be found at Tanglewood Retreat in Auckland, New Zealand and this week we will be exploring them all!

After 15 years of working as an architect in Hong Kong, Bobbie is certainly no stranger to small space design. Having returned to New Zealand and after going through a separation, she decided it was time to put her design skills to the test and create a wonderful, functional tiny home for her and her two children

With all the hassle and stress of modern living, chances are there has been a time in your life where you wished you could leave the pressures of the world behind and escape to an idyllic, off-the-grid cabin amongst the calming powers of nature. In this weeks episode, we meet an inspiring couple who did exactly that, building their own incredible cabin by the river.

In this weeks episode, we explore a stunning, modern, urban-industrial style tiny house in Auckland, New Zealand. Described as a tiny mansion, this stunning tiny house is packed full of brilliant design features which make living in this home a dream come true for owners Kyron and Natalia.

This stunning tiny house on wheels is packed full of absolutely game changing design! There is a saying in architecture that you should build your first home for your enemy, the second for your friend and the third for yourself. Good design takes time and practice to get things right, and this home truly is the result of years of experimentation and small space design exploration.

In this weeks episode, we meet Gina, a tiny house builder from the Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand, who has created a stunning, modern tiny house that is packed full of clever design and storage ideas and which even has an amazing library loft with a net floor! Originally designed as a spec home, this tiny house was assembled from different, left over and miss-ordered components from other builds and for that reason is affectionally named ‘The Bitser’. Gina fell so in love with the design that she decided to buy it herself and make it her own.

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. 

In this pilot episode of our Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World series, we travel 2000 years back in time to the Celtic iron-age fort and roundhouses 0f Castell Henllys. So far on Living Big in a Tiny House, we have explored tiny homes and downsized architecture from all over the world. In this new series, we aim to reach far back into our historic and prehistoric past to explore the tiny homes of the ancient world.

In this weeks episode, we venture to the beautiful sub-tropical Northern Rivers region of New South Wales to visit a spectacular off-the-grid tiny house on wheels, situated amongst stunning syntropic, regenerative, food forest gardens. For anyone who has dreamed of going off-the-grid and escaping to paradise to grow food and live simply, this is a video tour you will want to check out!

This stunning Hampton-style tiny house on wheels in Queensland, Australia is absolutely packed full of super clever design ideas! At 12 meters (39ft) in length, this home on wheels is big as far as tiny homes go and each and every inch of the home has been ingeniously utilised to create a beautiful and totally functional home.

In this weeks episode we see an old favourite, with a brand new twist! This stunning tiny house in Queensland, Australia is a wonderful blend of Scandinavian and Japanese design, taking the best of both worlds and creating a beautiful and wonderfully functional home. It’s design is heavily based on the Zen Tiny House in Byron Bay, but this home has some brilliant modifications and unique features which make it a home perfectly suited to owner Leah.

Stunningly constructed and packed full of brilliant small space design ideas, this modern tiny house on wheels situated in Queensland, Australia is definitely one that you’re going to want to check out!

This amazing DIY tiny house is packed full of super clever small space design ideas. Every inch of this home has been thoroughly thought through to create a super functional and beautiful home for its builders / owners, Chris and Mariëlle. The home has also found a really unique parking spot, in a quiet corner of a nudist club!

In a city like Auckland, New Zealand, it can be especially difficult for young people to get a hold on the housing ladder. With an average house price of close to 1 million dollars and rent prices to match many have effectively been priced out of the housing market entirely to the extent that many refer to young New Zealander’s as generation rent. Cam and Amanda are an enterprising young couple who thought outside of the box and decided to get onto the housing ladder by constructing an unconventional first home in the form of a tiny house, which allows them to live now in their own home in one of the worlds most expensive cities.

So many of us dream of a life on the road, and this family turned that dream into a reality by building a tiny house on wheels and traveling full time all over New Zealand. Their home is beautiful, functional, compact and perfectly designed to meet the unique needs of a traveling tiny house on New Zealand’s roads.

It’s crazy times around the globe as the world goes into lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19. In this video, we check in with some of our tiny house family around the globe to see how they are dealing with life in a tiny house while in lockdown / self-isolation / quarantine. 

At 17m2 (182ft2) this house may be tiny, but for owner Stef it’s a huge step onto the housing ladder! Steph was attracted to the idea of living in a tiny house as she was drawn to their simplicity, minimalism and a home which could allow her to focus on other things in life, while also being closer to nature and living a life with a smaller environmental footprint.

Stylish, modern and ultra minimal, this beautiful, architecturally designed tiny house is sure to impress. From is all-black metal exterior to it’s minimalist plywood interior, this solar-powered home is one you are definitely going to want to check out!

If you’ve ever dreamed of building a completely off-the-grid small house with a large enough solar system to even charge an electric car, then this is the home for you! Constructed in Northland, New Zealand, this amazing 40ft shipping container home has it all, including an amazing solar array large enough to not only power the home, but also an electric vehicle.

This mind blowing tiny house on wheels is without a doubt one of the most clever designs we have seen on the show so far! In this episode, we explore the homes of Cahute in France, where builder Thomas is constructing beautiful, ultra-compact and eco friendly tiny houses on wheels which are perfectly designed for both full time living and full time travel on the narrow roads of Europe.

One of the things which makes tiny houses on wheels so unique is the fact that they sit on wheels and are able to move and travel with relative ease. Few tiny home owners really take full advantage of their moving foundations, yet some do! In this weeks episode we explore the incredible tiny house of Jonathan and Yunaë, an intrepid couple who have set out to travel the world in their amazing do-it-yourself built tiny home.

In this weeks episode we explore our very first tiny house in France! The tiny house movement has rapidly been growing in France which has now become a hot spot for tiny homes and small space design in Europe. Looking at this tiny house, you can quickly understand why! The home’s design is elegant, simple and very unique making it a dream, minimalist tiny house on wheels.

In this weeks episode, we venture into the wild woods of Wales to meet a remarkable woman who lives close to nature, in an earthen home which she constructed herself for only £1000. Here, she lives without electricity, running water, the internet or even a telephone, yet insists that she is not going without, but is living a life of luxury in her dream home.

This inspiring young woman has turned her love of woodworking into the ultimate accomplishment by building her very own home! Florence was inspired to build a tiny house after watching the movement growing around the world, especially in the US and Australia. Building her own home has been a long time dream and a tiny house seemed like the perfect way to make that happen.

This amazing Lord of the Rings inspired van conversion is sure to impress! After his divorce, retired police officer turned wood-carver Glen wanted to do something different and follow his dream of converting a van into a wonderful tiny home on wheels.

Amazingly, Tom was only 17 years old when he bought a trailer and began construction of his very own tiny house on wheels. He had just began a building apprenticeship and set about taking the skills he was learning on the job and applying them to the construction of his own home. The entire home was constructed on a tight budget, using mostly reclaimed materials to save on costs. Thanks to his DIY attitude and resourceful nature, Tom was able to complete his home for an incredible £6,000 (under US$8k).

2019 has been a really big year for tiny houses and Rasa and I have been traveling the world seeking out the very best small space designs to share with all of you. We feel truly privileged to be able to share these wonderful homes with you as well as the beautiful people who live inside them. Years ago when I started this website and video series I thought that there would come a time when I had seen everything that a tiny house could offer. I now believe that human creativity is limitless and there will always be new and exciting innovation in the world of small space design.

This Christmas we wanted to do something really special and show how tiny house families all over the world are getting ready to celebrate Christmas. In this video, we’ve asked people who were featured on the channel this year to send in a video with a Christmas message and showing how their own tiny homes have been decorated for the season.

In this weeks episode, we travel to Cowlitz County, Washington to visit an amazing shipping container home which is sure to impress! This stunning house has been constructed from one 40ft shipping container with another 20ft container stacked on top to create an impressive and fully featured home.

This World War 2 railway train carriage has been beautifully transformed into an amazing tiny house which is simply out of this world! The whole conversion project is filled with clever small space design and the interior of this home is like stepping into a wonderful piece of living history.

Of all the caravans, few are more iconic and loved than the airstream. There’s something about the design of an airstream which makes you think of adventure and life lived on the open road. The Airstream featured in this weeks video tour is no different, except it’s been completely renovated into a stunning, modern tiny house and designed for full time living and travel.

This modern architecturally designed tiny house on wheels is sure to impress! Within it’s small footprint, this home is filled with some big ideas to really help make the space work for it’s tall owner, including a raising bed mechanism and an especially clever hidden shower!

There’s something magical about the desert. The harsh landscape can be a quick reminder of both the fragility and resilience of life and a stark reminder of our own connection with and reliance on nature and all that it provides for us. In this weeks episode, we travel to the desert of California to meet Sasha and John, earth builders at the Quail Springs Permaculture community and talk with them about their beautiful tiny earthen home.

Biophilic design is a term which refers to the connection between our built environment and the living world around us. It speaks to our innate love of nature, our biosphere and connection with living systems. This tiny house has been designed to incorporate elements of biophilic design and natural building to construct a home which is beautiful, natural and healthy to live in, proving that a tiny house can truly be capable of having a big positive impact.

This inspiring family have gone off-the-grid, living in a beautiful tiny house tent which they constructed on an acre of land next to a river in New Mexico. In this re-visited episode, we catch up with the family a year after our first video and marking the two year anniversary of living in the tent to see how they are getting on.

This couple have built an absolutely beautiful, modern tiny house, and best of all, they have pulled off the entire build for a budget equivalent to just a years worth of rent in San Diego. In this weeks episode, we explore this stunning tiny house and meet its builders. 

As an interior designer, Kim Lewis’s work has been seen on various hit television shows such as Extreme Home Make-Over and Tiny House Nation. In this weeks episode, we explore Kim’s own home which she has created together with her husband, film-maker Joey Puterbaugh. This home has been uniquely constructed from two tiny houses on wheels which cleverly fit together to create a spectacular 500 square foot (45sqm) home.

This week I am so excited to be able to share something really special with you all. A full video tour of our very own tiny house on wheels in New Zealand. For those who have been following my journey from the very beginning, you’ve been waiting a very long time for this reveal and I’m so happy to be able to finally share the completed home with you after almost 5 years!

This week, we travel to Melbourne to visit the incredible micro apartment of architect Douglas Wan. Originally constructed in the 1950’s, the apartment was originally intended as nursers quarters. Its now been completely reimagined for modern living and transformed into a stylish and exceptionally clever micro studio apartment.

  This school bus has been converted into a spectacular tiny home on wheels. Completely off-the-grid, with solar power and water supply, this is a house which is designed to go anywhere all while being a beautiful and functional home.

Yurts have always been one of my favourite forms of traditional housing.Originally, a yurt is a portable round, insulated tent used  by nomadic groups of central Asia. They are designed to be easily moved and are capable of keeping people comfortable in extreme weather conditions. This incredible small home in Portland, Oregon is a contemporary modern take on the traditional home, which is designed to take yurt living to the next level and give it a unique, updated architectural edge.

This stunning tiny house situated in Austin Texas is sure to impress. Molly and Ken decided to build a tiny house to enable them to save money and travel the world. For a small house, this home is packed full of some really big features including an incredible Sauna which has been built into the bathroom. 

 Nestled into the forest in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia is the tiny house of Rebecca and Cass. Built of wood, stone and with earthen walls, this is a home designed to connect with the natural world, a place where time can slow down and where life can be simple and beautiful.

In this weeks episode we explore a beautiful, cottage-style tiny house located just outside of Oklahoma City. For a long time, Jeremy and Kasey had dreamed of building their own tiny house on wheels and several years ago that dream turned into a reality when Jeremy, a carpenter by trade, brought the couple’s paper sketches to life. 

When we first visited Phil, him and his wife Cynthia were living in a beautiful, whimsical tiny house in Tofino BC. He was completely off the grid, powering his home with solar, hydro and even human power via a bicycle. Be sure to check out our first tour of the home here.

 Designed to perfectly meet the needs of a family of four, this fantastic farmhouse-style tiny home on wheels is packed full of great design ideas! This home is as wonderfully styled as it is functional. It’s everything that a young family could hope for.

From the moment you approach this incredible tiny house on wheels, you know that you’re about to experience something very special. Constructed as a DIY project by owner / builder Matt, this tiny house is more than just a dream home, it’s a testament to overcoming adversity and what is possible when you really set your mind to making something happen.

This incredible 20ft shipping container home was built for an astounding budget of less that CA$15,000. Packed full of innovative small space design ideas and filled with character, this home was built as a DIY project, which enabled the container house to be completed at such a low budget.

 This inspiring mother / daughter duo made an epic trip, moving from Toronto to Victoria to start a new life. With a desire to simplify, and live closer to nature, Natasha set about building a tiny house on wheels for herself and her young daughter, to allow them to live without the worries of mortgage and Victoria’s high rent prices. The resulting home is absolutely beautiful, filled with artistic flare and parked up in a stunning location.

 In todays hectic, modern world, it’s never been so important to have a place to retreat to, a sanctuary space where you can leave the troubles of the world behind and where you feel nurtured and able to dream and create a life of your choosing. Entrepreneurial couple Derek and Jeffrey created such a sanctuary for themselves in the form of a stunning and modern tiny house on wheels.

 Starting a new life takes a lot of courage. Selling your family home, building a tiny house on wheels, downsizing your possessions and driving that tiny home right across the country to a new province can be an incredibly scary feat, and yet that’s exactly what this inspiring mother and daughter duo did.

 This weeks episode takes is to Armstrong in British Columbia and to the incredible off-the-grid tiny home of pioneering couple Oliver and Cera. Their stunning home on wheels has been built in the style of a heritage home and is packed full of character as well as some super clever design ideas.

Right in the heart of downtown Vancouver is Gastown, a gritty and culturally radiant place filled with shopping, art, restaurants and much more. It’s there that Chad and Kelly decided to build their home together, transforming a tiny apartment into a small space wonder.

 In this weeks episode we visit the incredible and charming Laneway home of Scott and Tania. This home is located in Metro Vancvouer, one of the most expensive places in the world to live. Here, the cost of housing has forced many people further outside of the city to find affordable options, however Scott and Tania were fortunate enough to be able to construct a Laneway home, giving them the ability to enjoy urban life in this bustling city.

In this weeks episode we travel to Batemans Bay to visit the spectacular South Coast Container home, an architecturally designed shipping container home constructed using four repurposed shipping containers which aims to be sustainable, affordable, healthy and incredibly high performing.

In this weeks episode, we explore the incredible off-the-grid tiny house of Glade, Cloe and their two young children. This spectacular home, sits on a lovely 12 acre property  just outside of Melbourne, Australia and is completely off the grid, generating all of its own power from a huge solar system which sits on the home’s roof. 

 As house and land prices move further out of reach for so many, multigenerational living is becoming a really popular option, as families come together to share land and resources. In this weeks video tour, we explore a stunning modern small family home which has been beautifully constructed in a suburban backyard.

This week, we travel to Melbourne to visit the incredible micro apartment of architect Douglas Wan. Originally constructed in the 1950’s, the apartment was originally intended as nursers quarters. Its now been completely reimagined for modern living and transformed into a stylish and exceptionally clever micro studio apartment.

Hidden away in the backyard of a suburban Sydney neighbourhood is a wonderful small family home. At only 31.5 square meters (340 square feet) this house is truly tiny, in fact, it’s smaller than the swimming pool. Thanks to some fantastic small space design however, the downsized house is a beautiful and functional home for this young family.

 Matt and Lisa’s tiny home on wheels is quite something to behold. Jet black with hints of cedar trim, this modern tiny house has a lot going for it. Amazingly, this tiny house began it’s life with a simple match on a dating app which united two souls, one with an obsession for tiny homes, and the other with a passion for building. Sarks flew, ideas grew and a year later this spectacular home was born.

 This beautiful tiny house on wheels is packed with some very clever design, including an ingenious pop top roof which lifts up to give owner-builders Ben and Nat the ability to stand up in their sleeping loft. Built as a DIY project, this small home has lots to love and is all the young family needs. 

After traveling many vast and open oceans a 40ft shipping container landed on the shores of New Zealand in what was to be it’s final voyage. There, it was purchased by a young couple with a grand vision of converting it into a spectacular home. While the container’s travels may have ended, it’s journey had just begun.

This dynamic young couple are both used to tackling big projects, and their latest victory is a stunning tiny home on wheels! Eve is an olympic athlete, while her partner Chris has a business crafting beautiful solid timber furniture. Together, the couple decided to build their own home after having to leave their apartment.

 If you’re a fan of a good movie, or relaxing in front of the television then this could potentially be the ideal tiny house for you. Packed full of clever design features, this home on wheels even has an incredible movie theatre loft, creating the perfect space lie back, relax and watch a movie.

In this weeks episode we are back to revisit Evans, a retired boat builder who has constructed a brilliant and compact home in a 20ft shipping container. When we first met Evans, I was impressed by his obvious skill and creativity. After many years working as a shipwright and furniture maker he has clearly honed his talents, and those gifts have all been well used in the clever construction of this fantastic tiny home.

While some build their tiny houses as temporary stepping stones, other builders are truly in it for the long haul. After falling in love with the concept of living in a tiny house and the freedom that it offered, Helen set about building her dream tiny forever home.

Willem and Kate are a powerhouse couple who have teamed up to build a spectacular tiny home for themselves. With Willem’s skill as an architect and Kate’s designer edge, the pair have done an amazing job in creating a beautiful and functional tiny family home which sits perfectly nestled into their .5 acre New Zealand bush property on Waiheke Island.

 I’m always absolutely amazed at how a shipping container, a cold, hard, metal box can be transformed into an incredibly warm and welcoming home. This stunning house in Victoria, Australia is a perfect example of that, with three 20 ft shipping containers being joined together to create an amazing, solar-powered home.

Dolly’s Tiny House is absolutely incredible. While it may look a bit like a giant dollhouse, this wonderfully designed home is no toy. At 7.2 by 2.4 meters (23 x 8ft) this home on wheels fits a whole lot of house and is possibly one of the best designed homes that we have visited so far with an amazing amount of functionality built into a very small home. 

This incredible tiny house has been built for a remarkable price. Builder Jesse has taken a whole bunch of salvaged materials (mostly lots of old fence palings) and constructed a fully featured and whimsically beautiful tiny home all for less that $20,000.

This week, we take a look back over 2018 and five of our favourite tiny house tours of the year. It’s always hard work choosing only 5 tours for this video as we travel to so many incredible homes and love them all for their own uniqueness of design and function. I hope you enjoy our selection!

We are working hard to get the tiny house finished in time for Christmas, and with the help of the elves we might just make it! Of course, we had to take a bit of a break to decorate the house to get into the spirit of the season. We also ventured into the Variant Spaces workshop, where Jake and Kasia help us to turn offcuts from our cabinetry into some lovely Christmas decorations for the tiny house. 

This young couple has given themselves an incredible start to life! After graduating from university, Sam and Simone threw themselves right into a building a tiny house on wheels. 

This stunning off the grid home in Australia may be tiny, but it has a very big story to tell. Constructed as a do-it-yourself build by recent empty-nesters Jan and Kev, this tiny house is open, spacious very efficient and completely off the grid.

 Our ambulance camper (or campulance) makes for an incredible home on the road! We never set out to purchase an ambulance but when we found this one, it was love at first sight. Ambulances are well maintained, have plenty of space in the back and often come kitted out with all kinds of cabinetry and storage so they can be some of the very best vehicles to convert into campers after their service.

When we first met Ryan, he was living in a different tiny house on wheels. It was a beautifully handcrafted 28ft home which was finished to an exceptional standard – you can see the full video tour of that first home here. Today, almost two years later we caught up with him in a completely new and much smaller home. 

Jay Shafer is the Godfather of the modern tiny house movement. I say the modern movement, because for the vast majority of human history, we have lived in small, simple shelters. It was almost 20 years ago that Jay designed and built his first 90 square foot (8m2) tiny house on wheels and that moment sparked the very beginning of the tiny house movement and a trend towards reclaiming the human right to affordable simple shelter.

Hidden deep amongst the mountains of California’s High Sierra is a stunning little permaculture oasis. Surrounded by towering trees and flourishing gardens, one young family has taken the leap into permaculture and homesteading on this land, where they have also built a beautiful little yurt which the family now call home.

It’s been a year now since we built our Little Zen tiny house in North America and in this weeks episode we re-visit our own home and talk about our experiences living in a traveling tiny house on wheels. 

As a solo parent, life can be a bit of a challenge. The skyrocketing cost of housing in cities such as Sacramento, California certainly doesn’t help make things any easier. One solo mother decided to do things a bit differently though, and managed to get out of the rent trap by building an amazing tiny house where she now lives together with her teenage daughter.

 As children, so many of us have dreamt of building homes or unique sanctuaries in the trees. There’s something about a treehouse which truly epitomises nature and our ability to live in harmony with our surrounding environment. This treehouse, a stunning and geometrically ornate structure shaped like a pinecone and suspended amongst the towering redwoods in California takes that dream to the next level.

 This family are doing things a bit differently, living a minimalist, debt free life style in a stunning tent. Zac and Katie together with their children Fox and Grizzly escaped the high stress, high cost lifestyle in Southern California and returned to Katie’s family land in New Mexico where they have built an incredible tiny tent house, going back to nature and living a rewarding life close to nature and each other. 

SB and Matt are a young and dynamic couple, who after getting married decided to build a tiny house on wheels before moving to Colorado from Oklahoma in order to avoid the incredibly high rent prices. Working together to build their home, they were able to do the vast majority of the labour themselves. Matching that with some thrifty material sourcing, they managed to construct their home for the amazingly affordable price of only $18,000.

 Asha Mevlana is an incredibly talented musician who is used to a life on the road, traveling the world as an electric violinist with the Trans Siberian Orchestra. Wanting to put down some roots and have a solid home which would also suit her unique lifestyle, she chose to build a tiny house.

 Jayme’s home is something very unique. As a yoga teacher, she understands the importance of body movement and has designed her brilliant home on wheels to reflect that and encourage her body to move as much as possible. Her home isn’t only functional however, it’s beautifully constructed using almost entirely salvaged materials. 

Doug and Stacy are living the pioneer lifestyle in the 21st century. After quitting their high-stress city lives they moved onto a property in rural Missouri where they could be debt free and construct a beautiful little pioneer style homestead. Today, they raise animals, grow most of their own food and live simply on the land.

In a way, Purple is like a modern day wizard, transforming items which have been left behind by the world and transmuting them into something new, giving them new life and purpose via upcycling. The same could be said of his old Bedford bus, which he has renovated into a wonderfully comfortable tiny home on wheels.

When this young family grew tired of the city life, they made their escape to a stunning rural property in Northland, New Zealand. The land they purchased was quite unique and had a beautiful spring-fed dam which they have used to float a stunning tiny house cabin on pontoons. 

Sustainability and efficiency have become huge topics of discussion amongst commercial and industrial builders across the globe. By using more environmentally friendly building materials, we can create homes that don’t hinder the health of the environment or ourselves.

Mark has lived a very unique life, sailing and traveling around the world working as a professional mime and clown. Now, in his retirement he is living the island lifestyle on an incredible off-the-grid house boat where he is able to enjoy life and spend his days looking out over the ocean. 

Imagine waking up each day in a stunning new location, stepping outside your home, grabbing your surf board and hitting the waves. Kiwi electrician Johnny Johnston is living that dream, traveling and working all over New Zealand while hunting down the countries best surfing locations all in his converted van.

 There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. That’s how the story goes, but this incredible small home is no fairytale. Constructed from ferrocement, this tiny house has been built in the shape of a boot. Despite it’s whimsical appearance, it’s a functional home and is currently used as a retreat for lovers and those who are wanting to escape reality and live a little fairytale of their own.

As an architect, Doug is used to designing large and spectacular homes. When it came to his own house, he decided to do something a bit different and challenged himself with going a lot smaller and designing and building a tiny house on wheels. With the benefit of his years of experience in architecture, his home is beautifully designed and filled with clever concepts to help make the space functional.

When Mandy saw the two railway carriages which sat rotting away on a property she was looking to purchase it was love at first sight. Despite their derelict state she saw their potential to be transformed into an incredible home. After 8 years of part time renovation work, the carriages have now been lovingly transformed into a wonderful, off the grid, small house which overlooks the big sky country of the Central Otago region of New Zealand.

This stunning small home in Wanaka, New Zealand is a perfect example of the influence that the tiny house movement is beginning to have on more conventional builds.

This home is a unique hybrid between a tiny house on wheels and a natural building. This young apprentice carpenter, gave himself a challenge to own his own home before he was 22 years old. What he ended up constructing was an incredible tiny home, which uses natural plasters on the interior to give his home an incredible earthen cottage appearance. 

This incredible home has been constructed using two 40ft shipping containers, which have been placed slightly off-set from one another to form a large living space in the centre as well as seperate rooms at the ends. Built as a DIY project by owners Matt and Ilse, this off-the-grid container house is now a wonderful, functional home for their family of five. 

If you love tiny homes but also the freedom of living on a boat, this small floating house boat could just be the ideal solution for you. Designed by Ian Ugarte in collaboration with architect Drew Heath this house on the water is designed to be the ideal live-aboard home.

Emmet constructed his tiny home on wheels to be ultra portable. At only 4 meters (13ft) in length, it has absolutely everything he needs for a life on the road. When he found an incredible parking spot on an organic farm in the Byron Bay hinterland, he decided to expand on his home and created a luxurious bath-house all from old recycled / salvaged windows.

If you’re wanting to live a life on the road, there are few homes that will travel quite so well as a van and of those vans, there are few more iconic than a Kombi Westfalia camper. Kylie and Stu have beautifully renovated their old sage green camper into an incredible tiny home on wheels. 

This beautiful tiny house on wheels was constructed on the back of an old Bedford truck. It’s off the grid, using solar power for energy and was built almost entirely from salvaged or reclaimed materials. 

This incredible van conversion allows this adventurous couple to live and work full time on the road as they travel and explore Australia! Demi and Eli spent 8 months converting an old van into a remarkable tiny house on wheels which gives them all the comforts of home while they explore.

This tiny house has everything this young couple needs. It’s set up to be completely off the grid, running on renewable energies. The home has solar power, captures it’s own rain water, uses solar water heating and even generates it’s own gas via a bio gas digester.

 We are often asked how to deal with grey water in a tiny house on wheels, so when we discovered this amazing DIY grey water treatment system created by Murray for his tiny house, we had to show you! In this episode, we explore all the details of the system, and let you know how it all works so you can create your own.

 This spectacular school bus conversion is absolutely one of a kind. The Liminal Caravan has been constructed entirely from reclaimed and salvaged materials, mostly things which were found in hard rubbish. The resulting conversion though, is an absolutely mind-blowing skoolie which serves as a wonderful family home, filled with thousands of treasures.

John Paul has designed an amazing life-style for himself by building a tiny house on wheels where he lives in the Blue Mountains, just outside of Sydney, Australia and a stealth camper van which doubles as a rent free central city apartment during the working week.

This beautiful small family home has a very special story to tell. Designed by architect Michael Leung and his wife Tiffany for their young family, the 60m2 (646ft2) house is actually constructed from hemp. The couple chose to use hempcrete for their home after searching for healthy, non-toxic building materials.