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TINY: A Story about Living Small [Tiny House Documentary]

This tiny house film has not been released yet, but I know we’re all interested to see how things turn out for Christopher Smith as he crafts his own mini home in Colorado: TINY: A Story about Living Small (teaser) “TINY is a (short) documentary about the ways we find ourselves at home. Following one…

The Cube Project: A Net Zero Tiny House

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The Cube Project is a very cool tiny house project from Dr Mike Page at the University of Hertfordshire. Page set out to build a compact home (no bigger than 3X3X3 meters on the inside) in which one person could live comfortably with all the modern conveniences we are used to, and one which also…

Review: The Small House Book

The Small House Book

Build a tiny house for less than $20,000, with only a small selection of tools, and live mortgage free. Sound like a dream? The truth is that you can have a small house of your own, one which fits you and your needs better than any other ‘factory’ home, and you can do it without…

A Place of Our Own

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I used to write more about my own family, and the things we do or have done, but lately I’ve been all over the map with my postings here. This piece is a bit of a return to that, and it’s about our next big project, our homestead. Because we want a place of our…

16 Excellent Tiny House Resources

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One of the most popular articles here at Natural Papa has been my post about Our Tiny House Experiment. From talking to other people who are looking to either live in a low impact way, or to simply save money, I have found that the tiny house concept is one that really resonates with them….

Our Tiny House Experiment

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The nuttiest thing we’ve ever done as a family was to move out of our house and into a one room trailer. A tiny house. Two adults, a four year old, and two cats in a 120 square foot camper. We hauled all of our own water, used a composting toilet, a solar shower, and we…