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Solar-powered tiny house packs in the amenities for $78K

Aching to get off the grid but can’t bear the thought of giving up a comfortable lifestyle? Well, this tiny home may just be the answer.

Tiny house by Kengo Kuma is perfect for the minimalist nomad

Japanese architect Kengo Kuma brings a flair of minimalism to his new project, "jyubako," a tiny mobile home that’s perfect for the nomad looking to strip down to the bare necessities in life.

8 tiny homes you can rent right now

From a tiny cottage in New York to a minimalist stunner in Seattle, here are 8 tiny homes available for rent right this second.

This 236-square-foot apartment comes packed with storage solutions

Designed as a short-term rental, this tiny apartment in Sydney, Australia is both stylish and functional.

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Kasita just nabbed a place to manufacture its prefab tiny homes

Local company acquires a space to build its innovative, efficient houses and revs up for a June rollout.

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Seven French Quarter homes under $300K for sale right now

The French Quarter is the center of the city, and while every neighborhood in our 350 square miles is a treasure, the French Quarter remains the cultural crux of the New Orleans.

New documentary looks at how to ‘live tiny legally’

A new installment to the documentary series "Live Tiny Legally" does a deep dive on the ways authorized tiny houses are taking hold around the country.

Portland to house homeless families in backyard tiny homes

Participating homeowners would get a free tiny house for their backyards...after housing a homeless family for five years.

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5 tiny homes for sale in Philly

These single-family homes are all less than 1,000 square feet, perfect for folks who don’t need a whole lot of house.

New tiny house is a calming blank slate

Wisconsin-based purveyor of covetable tiny homes, Escape, has released another one of its mobile units, and this time, raw wood interiors and an exterior of Shou Sugi Ban, the Japanese technique of charred siding, take center stage.

Tiny house with private ‘bedroom’ offers minimalist chic

Everything is streamlined and pared-back, with clean lines taking the reins.

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Tiny, hyperlocal Orcas cabin lists for $440K

This 610 square foot home is built green from all-local wood

Architect’s mountain cabin offers amazing views from every room

This cabin built of repurposed materials offers the most jaw-dropping vistas of Norwegian mountains and lakes.

This tiny house boasts luxury features and eclectic decor choices

The tiny abode, listed for $74,000, offers a master bedroom, dining room, kitchen, and bath—all wrapped in a cedar facade with a "weathered, blue stain custom finish."

Inside an eco-friendly converted van filled with hidden features

Think living in a tiny mobile home means giving up storage and large items that you could only have if you had lots of space? Think again.

Tour a tiny Tokyo home made of two skinny structures

It packs some seriously satisfying design details into a small footprint. One of the volumes is just six and a half feet wide.

Tiny house packs ‘farmhouse chic’ into 240 square feet

This tiny abode manages to contain enough stools and benches to comfortably sit seven or eight full-sized adults.

Couple transforms old school bus into solar-powered mobile home

They mostly used online construction tutorials and bus conversion videos to build out their space, and the result is impressive.

Prefab tiny home, sustainable and 3D-printed, offers idyllic high-tech living

What’s more is that modulOne comes with smart home devices, and its HVAC and "micro-climate" (think humidity and oxygen saturation) systems can be controlled via smartphone.

Urban Hermitage, a 280-square-foot London studio, offers ‘monastic retreat’

How to make the most of limited space, especially in densely-populated urban areas is, of course, the question du jour.

Cheery tiny house frames stunning mountain views in Vermont

Located near the Green Mountains, the simple, energy-efficient structure features a shed roof and a cubic form, but with two corners "subtracted" to create a porch entrance, and, on the opposite side, a dining nook of sorts

10-year-old builds $10 off-grid tiny home

While other kids were off playing Minecraft or reading Where the Red Fern Grows, affordable architecture savant Callie Hilton built her own solar-powered tiny house.

This creepy tiny house is suspended underneath an old railway arch

Black Flying House asks, ‘Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?’

Adorable tiny house installed in a Japanese kindergarten to encourage domestic play

Measuring 161 square feet, Ouchi features a mini kitchen, laundry room, fireplace, dining table, a skylit loft for reading or playing, and a boxed-in "outdoor patio" with additional seating.

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Austin’s tiny home village wins engineering award

Community First! development for housing the homeless continues to garner much-deserved recognition

This tiny mobile studio was designed for podcasting

You didn’t ask for it, but there’s now a tiny dwelling specifically for making podcast recordings. The 130-square-foot structure can seat up to six.

75-square-foot micro home packs in all the essentials

Featuring a glass door and three small windows, the space is pared down to the bare essentials: a built-in bench that pulls out to form a bed, a toilet, and a kitchenette, under which a small table and two stools are stored.

Adorable tiny house is perfect for green lovers

Pantone’s Color of the Year is a refreshing spring green called "Greenery," and we found a tiny house that definitely got the memo.

This prefab tiny house is simplicity at its most chic

Designed as minimalist retreats from the hustle and bustle of today’s connected lives, Ark Shelters are prefabricated and can be shipped just about anywhere.

New tiny house goes traditional with porch, cute windows

Wisconsin-based tiny house builder Escape Homes continues to explore a more traditional look. Last fall, it introduced the gabled Vintage and now it has come out with a new model simply called Tradition.

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Inside the North End’s tiniest standalone house

The 420-square-foot house at 54 Snow Hill Street is the neighborhood’s tiniest detached single-family. Despite its diminutive size, it certainly packs a lot in.

This flexible 140-square-foot home maximizes livable space

By creating a residence that was small but still featured all the necessary amenities—in addition to ample storage—Studiomama hopes to challenge people to think about what they absolutely need in order to live comfortably.

French tiny house comfortably fits family of three

There are many ways to design a tiny house fit for two, but when you add a third person—and a child at that—things sure get interesting. Here, see how one French builder does it.

Inside an old van turned tiny mobile home

Hungarian photographer (and former architecture student) Norbert Juhász converted this compact, 16-year-old van to make a home for himself and his fiancée, Dóra.

Genius tiny house is full of DIY transforming furniture

One of the raddest small apartment maneuvers we’ve ever seen is the motorized bed that drops down from the ceiling. And now, the same brilliant idea has been deployed in—what else?—a tiny house.

Clever $25K tiny homes were designed to skirt zoning restrictions

In L.A., student designers worked with city planners to create pods that could quickly house the city’s homeless population.

5 tiny houses we loved this week

2016 was a fabulous year for inventive tiny houses of all stripes, and 2017 is already off to a strong start. Here, we catch you up on the latest standout projects you should know.

Transforming pond retreat fits everything you need into one box

The stunningly simple dwelling conceals fold-out components that can turn it into a yoga studio, office, and more. Peek in.

25-square-foot ‘pod’ dwellings in high demand in Hong Kong 

Renting for roughly $400-$650 a month, the first 10 pods were snatched up in just 15 days. And there are plans for 1,000 more.