Tiny house videos are better than saturday morning cartoons. Below are some tiny house & simple living videos we spotted online this past week. A couple of them are a little off-topic but relevant.

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“Seven years ago Diana and Michael Lorence moved to a 12-foot-square home without electricity in the coastal mountains of Northern California.”

To learn more about Innermost House visit Diana and Michael’s website.

Kevin Coy has been busy updating his YouTube channel with progress videos. Be sure to visit Kevin’s Micro Homestead blog for more details on this project.

…and he’s some cost-saving tips from Kevin Coy.

Tiny house videos are better than saturday morning cartoons. Below are some tiny house & simple living videos we spotted online this past week. Also:

• Subscribe to Tiny House Living for regular tiny house news.
• Subscribe to CARazed.com for greener transportation options.

The Sidecountry Sessions Tiny House is currently on the road seeking fresh powder for its 5 ski bum occupants. I spotted this on Tiny House Blog.

Watch a tiny super-adobe earthen home go up at My Little Homestead.

Kevin Coy walks us through another how-to build a tiny house video.

Kevin Coy also shares a trailer conversion living space with us.

These folks build a mobile forge with fold-up sides and a small sleeping space. Spotted this first on Shedworking.co.uk.

Tiny home builder Dan Louche will be hosting a Tiny House Build Along beginning in March 2012. This is a novel approach incorporating online and hands-on learning while building your own tiny house.

In a nutshell, Dan will begin building a tiny house in March 2012 and he’s inviting others to build their own tiny homes in parallel. Participants will have access to an online community where they’ll be able to get support and answers to their questions. He will also provide videos, pictures, and documentation that details the step-by-step build process. An online forum will be setup where participants will be able to ask & answer questions, share knowledge and experiences. On top of this each build process step will be accompanied by a group conference call where Dan will present the information needed to complete the step and field questions. Participants will also have Dan’s direct phone number if they get stuck and need immediate help.

The cost is $849 and includes a set of Dan’s detailed tiny house plans, his book, and the aforementioned details. If you’ve already bought Dan’s tiny house plans you can join the Tiny House Build Along for $600. If you’d like to use someone else’s plans (or your own plans) the cost is $749.

Reserve your spot today for $99. Learn more at tinyhomebuilders.com/buildalong. Also listen to Dan describe the Tiny House Build Along below.

The Coastal Cottage is an 8′ by 28′ tiny house that can be built on or off a trailer. It features a bay window and small covered porch up front as well as two sleeping lofts. I’ve not included floor plans in my tiny house plans in the past but in the last two months have gotten many requests to begin adding them. When I update my tiny house plans all previous buyers are sent an update link automatically, so if you’ve bought the Coastal Cottage plans in the past you should also have an email from Tiny House Design with the updated download link. If not, please let me know.

Below are 8 examples of what can be done with this size home. Click on the thumbnail images to view each floor plan. You can buy a complete set of these tiny house plans for $9.95. Learn more about the Coastal Cottage.

At nearly 3 million page views TinyHouseDesign.com remained a very busy place in 2011. At the end of each year it’s eye-opening to look back and see which posts/designs/stories were most popular. I’m often surprised to see how things are trending.

Judging from the list below, my best guess is that more and more people are looking for plans and designs they could tackle building themselves. Luckily for 2012 I have a series of how-to posts and videos planned.

Top 10 of 2011

1. Coastal Cottage – Tiny House Framing Plans (Sept. 2011)
2. 12×24 Homesteader’s Cabin – Free Plans (June 2011)
3. Prefab Hybrid – An Approach To Partial Panelized Construction (Sept. 2011)
4. 8×12 Tiny House – Free Plans(Sept. 2011)
5. Eric’s Prefab Micro House (March 2011)
6. Keith is Building the 12×24 Homesteader’s Cabin (Aug. 2011)
7. Tiny House vs Camping Trailer(Sept. 2011)
8. How to Design a Nuclear Fallout Shelter (March 2011)
9. Triple Dome Survival Shelter (April 2011)
10. Smalltopia – A Tiny House(Sept. 2011)

Top 10 All Time

1. How to Move Yourself Off-The-Grid
2. How to Build a Tiny House
3. Earthbag House Plans
4. Cherokee Cabin Company – Tiny House Plans
5. Shotgun Houses & The Tiny Simple House
6. $4000 16×20 Cabin Plans
7. Mini-Cabin Plans
8. Ultralight Teardrop Trailer – For a Bicycle!
9. Tiny House Homeless Shelters to Weather The Economic Hurricane
10. Tiny House Frequently Asked Questions

Tiny house videos are better than saturday morning cartoons. Below are some tiny house & simple living videos we spotted online this past week. Also:

• Subscribe to Tiny House Living for regular tiny house news.
• Subscribe to CARazed.com for greener transportation options.

Mad Woman in the Forest tells her cottage storage. It’s built around a giant refurbished rose window that came out of a local church.

Slabtown Customs in Arkansas built this 8′x24′ tiny house for Tonita, a client in Washington State.

Episode 10 of Kevin’s tiny house construction videos.

Congratulations Docuden on winning Best Shed Blog 2011!

Tiny house videos are better than saturday morning cartoons. Below are some tiny house & simple living videos we spotted online this past week. Also:

• Subscribe to Tiny House Living for regular tiny house news.
• Subscribe to CARazed.com for greener transportation options.

This Must Be The Place is a growing series of short films exploring the idea of home. This one is on John Coffer, a tintype photographer who lives in a tiny cabin on 50 acres in Washington. I originally found it on the Solar Burrito Blog.

COFFER from thismustbetheplace on Vimeo.

Kevin Cyr built this tiny bike camper. You can view the video on YouTube.

This is the final video in a series of construction videos that Meg & Joe made of their tiny house construction project. See the complete series on their YouTube channel.

Ann Holley gives a tour of her tiny house, the Protohaus.

Theresa gives Alex a tour of her 7′x20′ tiny home.

For your Saturday morning viewing enjoyment – some tiny house videos we spotted online this past week. Also:

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Below, an interview with a fellow who works by day as technology support lead (a normal technology day job) built and lives in his own tiny house.

Now a slideshow showing the step-by-step construction of a similar house.

Father and son team build tiny houses in Minnesota at Tiny Green Cabins.

The following video has been out there for a while so you may have seen it but it’s a great example of what can be done with salvaged building materials.

One of the blogs I follow posts a regular Saturday Video post where they select a few good on-topic videos worth watching. I thought that might be a great thing to add as a regular feature.

I also wanted to mention that I’ve finally found a good way of breathing life back into Tiny House Living a regular newsletter on tiny houses. If you’d like tiny houses appearing in your email inbox on a more regular basis be sure to subscribe to Tiny House Living.

When I originally posted photos of this cube shaped tiny house it quickly became one of the most popular posts on my site.

Derek Diedricksen gives us a tour of the first Tumbleweed Tiny House built by Jay Shafer.

The following video is a bit off-topic but shares a community in Canada that’s paving the way for others to build their own alternative communities.

You may have seen this video – but it’s a great one showing what an inspired teenager can do with their own hands and imagination.

Stephen Marshall works to help discover the legal ways to setup tiny houses in Northern California.

The following is a guest post by Malcolm White on a new prefab ebook he’s authored.

For a long time now I have been interested in almost everything related to residential design and construction. If you looked at the bookmarks in my Internet browser you would find that category to have the most pointers by far. While most of my career has been in the semiconductor industry I have spent a fair amount of my spare time and occasionally my full time designing or building things.

More recently I have become increasingly interested in looking for ways to help ease homelessness both in this country as well as potentially in other countries. Partly with that end in mind I have been thinking about how to build very simple structures that could be used for housing if necessary. I am also very interested in prefabrication techniques so it is quite natural for me to be thinking in terms of simple prefabricated structures.

My new eBook titled “TenYurt – A Simple DIY Prefab Shelter” details one such structure. A TenYurt is a simple 10-sided yurt like building that encloses about 118 square feet of floor space and is about 12’ from side to side. In its prefabricated but unassembled for it could easily be transported in a pickup truck. I have included lots of drawings, accurate dimensions and complete how to build details. You can build a very simple basic structure or you can enhance it in most any way your needs and budget suggest.

For more information about my eBook and for information about how to order you own copy visit diy-prefab.com.