25+ Brilliant Tiny Homes That Will Inspire You To Live Small.....>>>>
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Small Traveling Microhouse
This microhouse cost Rachel Ross less than $8000 to build from recycled material. The quaint home looks like something from a fairytale and Rachel now uses the home as a writer’s retreat. It’d be hard not be inspired living in a home like this.
House Balancing on a Rock
This house has been sitting on a rock in Serbia for over 45 years. It was first conceptualized in 1968 by a group of young swimmers and finally erected the following year as a one-room home. Though it may not be an ideal location to live in, it’s a perfect resting spot for swimmers of the lake who need a place to rest comfortably.
Casa do Penedo
$11,000 Dollar Tiny Dream Home
Dome Home
Source: Steve Areen
After 6 weeks of tireless work on a $9,000 budget, Steve Areen built himself this dream home in Thailand. The basic structure of the home cost two-thirds of the total and the remaining $3,000 was spent on extra details and furnishings. The house includes a lounging space, a hammock, a personal pond, and just about everything inside the dome is made of all-natural materials.
Floating House
Designed by architect Dymitr Malxew, Floating House is exactly what you’d expect—a floating house. The soothing mobile home is situated atop a buoyant platform that allows it to remain afloat in the water while minimally impacting the environment and offering scenic v
Tetsu Tree House, Japan
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Designed by architect Terunobu Fujimori, this fantasy house rests in Hokuto City, Japan.
Hobbit House
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Photographer Simon Dale spent $5,000 and 4 months to turn a plot of land in the woods into a hobbit home. It boasts a number of eco-friendly attributes, which include: scrap wood for flooring, lime plaster (instead of cement) for the walls, bales of straw on dry-stone walling, a compost toilet, solar panels for power, and a supply of water acquired through a nearby spring.
Shipping Container House in Woods
It may not look like a garbage heap from the outside, but this home proves just how modern a recycled house can be. The interior is amazing…
Modern low impact house
Minimod is an innovative and sustainable alternative to traditional housing. It’s built off-site, meaning that there’s no construction impact on the surrounding environment.
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Despite the environmentally friendly focus, the homes are equisite.
Homemade micro housing
Mini-Double Loft Rock House
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This smaller house is far more environmentally friendly that the average home but still offers the opportunity to live in a multi-storey home.
Modern Microcabin
Transforming A-Frame House
This $1200 holiday home can be repacked and carried away at the end of a weekend in the woods.
Compact Cabin with loft
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Surrounded by 52 acres of woodland and mountains, this cabin in the woods is dwarfed by its environment. It serves as a perfect escape from every day life.
Japanese Forest House
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Brian Schulz built this homely cabin based on traditional Japanese architecture. Using local materials meant that this sustainable home could be built on a budget of $11,000.
Modular Micro Home
Source: Geoffrey Warner, weeHouse
Geoffrey Warner, a violinist and founder of weeHouse, built this peaceful retreat for $60,000 in 2003. The large windows offer an amazing view of the surrounding evironment but keep in the heat during the winter.
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Andrew and Gabriella claim that living in a smaller space has bought them closer together on a relationship level.
Micro-house with sky loft
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While it looks like a greenhouse, this coastal home in California, built by Mickey Muennig, has a removable window which helps keep the place cool.
Fairytale Home
Dan Pauly, from Elk River, Minnesota, creates homes that look as if they are plucked from a magical forest.
Mobile Log Cabin
ESCAPE cabins are modular portable homes. You can select how they look, the amount of space and even more. They’re fully portable and get delivered to you when they’re built.
Grain Silo Homes
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These energy-efficient alternative homes can, on average, provide 1,500 to 2,000 square feet of living space. Some people like Don & Carolyn Riedlinger of Gilbert, Arizona have even combined three grain bins to create a sort of silo mansion.
Residence in Between Trees
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Keisuke Kawaguchi of K2 Design built a series of living spaces that weave around the towering trees near Yonago City, Japan. The multi-room home is connected through short passageways and surrounded by the beauty of nature.
Extending cabin house
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Designed by Cavco Park Home & Cabins of Phoenix, AZ, these beautiful homes are built on wheels and perfect for recreational use.
Solar-Powered Group Living
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Halo is a 645-square-foot group house designed by Team Sweden, a group of 25 students from Sweden’s Chalmers University. It is a solar-powered house constructed with renewable materials for the group to live an energy-efficient lifestyle. Solar cells line the exterior of the living space, serving both as solar energy absorbing panels and an external roof over the structure.
Tiny Modern Home
After being faced with the cleaning and utility bills of a large house, Andrew and Gabriella Morrison built this mortgage-free house on wheels.
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Vertical eco home
This space saving Japanese home is not only cheap enough to be built for under 15,000 USD, it leaves a much smaller eco footprint when compared to traditional housing
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