Here’s an interesting house inspired by a book at DVD set, The $50 and up Underground House, by Mike Oehler. It’s a cob, log, and mostly natural material house being built by Glenn and Kathy Kangiser in central California. You can follow the construction process on this online forum.
The most interesting part of the project [...]

Ross Chapin Architects has been designing scaled and richly detailed buildings and gardens since 1982. They focus on custom residential design and neighborhood development. But they also sell plans for tiny and small houses through their GoodFit house plans division.

Pictured here is one of the more recent designs available on their website. This little house [...]

If you’re looking for a simple tiny house that you can build yourself you might find the Mini-Cabin to be the right fit. It’s a 120 square foot cabin constructed from 9 separate panels that are easily built off-site and assembled at the building site. The plans cost about $20 (plans + shipping cost) and [...]

Small Home Oregon can build you a small portable home or sell you the plans so you can built it yourself. Plans cost about $265 and completed homes are in the $30,000 to $40,000 range. They can build it to be off-the-grid or grid-tied depending on your needs. The off-the-grid photovoltaic systems can range from [...]

You’ve probably seen this company’s ads in the back of magazines like Mother Earth News and Fine Home Building. Sheldon Designs sells a wide variety of plans for Cabins, Cottages, Barns, and Sheds. They are also open to suggestions so if you have an idea for a type of building you’d like plans for, they [...]

Curious about experiencing green living in a tiny home without building one yourself? Here’s a little place that’s a little off the beaten track up on Bowen Island in British Columbia. It’s called the Eco-Shed and it’s a tiny house available for rent on a nightly basis.
It’s a showcase for living lite and building green [...]

This is cool. It’s not a house; it’s a hotel in Austria called dasparkhotel. Staying the night costs what you can afford, they are available at a “pay as you wish” nightly rate. All hotel services (Toilets, showers, minibar, cafe, etc) are supplied by the surrounding public space. So it’s a tiny room, with a [...]