Living Big in a Tiny House

The Gypsy Mermaid is undoubtably one of the most creative and artistic tiny house builds that we have visited to date. There are features in this home that I didn't believe to be possible in a tiny house such as a fully functional feature pizza oven right in the middle of the home which provides both ample warmth and amazing pizza!

Building our tiny house on wheels together with the team from Tiny House Chattanooga in Tennessee was an amazing experience.

It's never easy being the first to do something, especially when that something is building a tiny house on wheels! In this weeks episode we travel to Yerrinbool in New South Wales, Australia to visit the first tiny home ever to be built in Australia.

Tiny House Expedition is the world's most traveled tiny house. Since filming this story in Vancouver, this intrepid family have put many thousands more miles behind them and now have travelled over 40,000 (64,000km) miles in their 20' (6m) tiny house on wheels.

Located on a spectacular permaculture farm outside of Melbourne, Australia is the Unity Wagon. Constructed by artist Steve Areen, this caravan-style tiny home on wheels is completely unique and absolutely beautiful.

For this young family, life in a tiny house is largely centred around a desire to live with a lighter footprint and do something good for the environment.

The stunning Zen Tiny Home in Byron Bay, Australia has it all. It's spacious and beautifully designed with influence borrowed from both Japanese and Scandinavian architecture to form a wonderfully functional house on wheels.

This tiny house has an incredible story to tell. At only 10m2 (or 108 ft2) this home on wheels has been constructed almost entirely from salvaged materials. Despite it's micro footprint, it's a fully functional home for a family of three.

Hemp is a building material like no other. It has incredible thermal properties, is environmentally friendly, rat and insect proof, fire and earthquake resistant and is an affordable way to build. Plus, the end result looks amazing!

John Paul is living the life, splitting time between his tiny house in the Blue Mountains of Australia and his stealth camping van, which doubles as a rent-free central Sydney apartment during the work week.

The Liminal Caravan is a school bus conversion quite unlike anything you've seen before. This incredible and artistic couple have renovated an old school bus using all reclaimed, salvaged and recycled materials to create a wonderful family home, filled with ornate and interesting treasures.

In this episode, we return to Murray's tiny house on wheels in the Yarra Valley, Victoria, Australia, where he has set up a clever grey water treatment system for his home based on permaculture principles.

This tiny house is ready for anything! Completely off the grid, this tiny home on wheels generates it's own solar power, collects rain water, uses solar water heating and even generates it's own bio gas for cooking.

This couple are living life to the fullest traveling all across Australia in an amazing converted van. The incredible continent has so much to explore, and this pair are seeing it all.

Adam and Sian have built an amazing off-the-grid tiny house on the back of a beautiful old Bedford truck. Their home is powered by solar, and is constructed almost entirely from salvaged materials.

Taking to the road and living the van life in a beautifully renovated VW Kombi Westfalia, this couple are exploring Australia and working to earn their parking spots as volunteers at sustainable communities and farms all over the continent.

This spectacular tiny house is ultra small and designed to travel, but when it's owner found the perfect parking spot he added on an incredible toilet and luxurious bath-house made from recycled windows.

Combining the alluring freedom of both tiny house living and life on the water, this tiny floating house boat is an incredible alternative living solution.

This amazing small home has been built using two 40ft high cube shipping containers, slightly of-set from one another to create a stunning, off-the-grid family home.

This stunning tiny home has used natural building techniques to give it an earthen cottage look, making it a unique hybrid between tiny house on wheels and a small natural home.

Francois and Sarah-lee live in a stunning, modern tiny house together with their 3 children. At only 21 m2 (226 ft2) fitting a family of 5 into the home was no easy task. Thankfully, Francois, a tiny house designer and builder was up to the challenge!

This stunning small home has been constructed using tiny house design principles as part of a new suburban subdivision in Wanaka New Zealand. At 33 square meters (355 square feet) it's a very compact home and is filled with super clever tiny house and small space design ideas.

In this episode we revisit Dave and Adrienne in their stunning tiny house on wheels which they built to live big in their retirement, only this time, it's a different tiny house!

This stunning tiny house is designed to be on the move and will be traveling all over North America! Our visit to the USA has been incredible. We have formed incredible friendships and made memories that will last a life-time. North America feels like a second home to us and so to help us travel more in the future, together with the team from Tiny House Chattanooga (http://www.tinyhousechattanooga.com) we have built a Tiny House on wheels!!!

These two derelict old railway carriages have been converted into an absolutely stunning off the grid home. Packed full of character and history from their time on the railway, these carriages are now a wonderful place to call home.

Hidden amongst the spectacular mountain ranges of the Kahurangi National park of New Zealand, this beautiful off-the-grid cabin sits in paradise.

As an architect, Doug is traditionally used to designing large homes, but when it came to his own house, he decided to go for something different and instead designed and built his own tiny house on wheels.

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. That's how the story goes, but this tiny house is no fairytale. Constructed from ferrocement, this spectacular home has been crafted as a whimsical yet functional retreat space which is shaped like a boot.

For a dedicated surfer, few things in life are more important than chasing the perfect waves. For Johnny this meant converting a van into an amazing tiny house on wheels which allows him to live and work full time, while traveling all over New Zealand in search of the best surf spots.

Mark has lived a very unusual life. As a professional mime and clown he has travelled the world as a performing artist and brought smiles to the faces of thousands. Now, he has retired and is living in a spectacular house boat on an island in New Zealand which brings a smile to his face each and every day.

When this family grew tired of life in the city, they decided to sell up and start a new life together in the country, purchasing land in rural New Zealand and building the ultimate city escape, a tiny floating cabin which was constructed on pontoons.

In a way Purple is like a modern wizard, transforming old trash into useful treasures for his off the grid homestead. After being gifted an old Bedford bus by a friend, he has been restoring it over the years and it's now a wonderful off the grid tiny house in an upcycled homestead.

Doug and Stacy are living the pioneer lifestyle in the 21st century! Living in a beautifully constructed DIY pioneer style cabin and homesteading their land in Missouri, this adventurous couple have left behind the trappings of the modern world.

Jayme is a yoga teacher who has built an amazing and beautiful tiny house which is designed to encourage body movement. While still being a stunning and functional home, this tiny house on wheels has lots of things to climb on and hang off, helping to support Jayme in her health and fitness goals.

This modern tiny house is truly a musicians dream home. Asha Mevlana is an electric violinist with the Trans Siberian Orchestra who is used to life on tour but wanted a solid place to call home. This incredible tiny house is constructed on foundations but is joined by a mobile music studio on wheels, which also doubles as a practice space as well as performance venue.

SB and Matt are a young couple who made a big decision to build a tiny house after getting married. Moving to Colorado from Oklahoma meant a big jump in rent prices, so building the tiny house on wheels was a great option to save money and invest in their future.

This young family are doing things a bit differently! They gave up their city lives in Southern California to live a debt free and simple life, close to nature in a beautiful tiny house tent in New Mexico!

This off-the-grid tiny house on wheels has been beautifully handcrafted using sustainably sourced materials. Designed to stand the test of time, it's one to be passed down to future generations.

This treehouse is one you need to see to believe. Shaped like a pinecone and suspended from a circle of towering redwood trees, this geometric masterpiece hangs suspended like an otherworldly temple amongst the canopy.

This week we visit the amazing home of an inspiring solo mother, who built an amazing tiny house on wheels where she now lives together with her teenage daughter.

Our tiny house on wheels is designed for life on the move! At only 16 x 8ft (5 x 2.5m) it's super compact, lightweight and designed for life on the road!

In this weeks episode we travel into the High Sierra region of California to visit a dynamic young family who are living big in a yurt home on their 30 acre homestead / permaculture property.

Jay Shafer is a man who many know as the Godfather of the modern tiny house movement. It was 20 years ago now that he build his original tiny house on wheels and that moment has since inspired thousands of people all over the world (me included) to construct their own tiny homes.

Ryan was fortunate. With his last 28ft tiny house on wheels he managed to pull it just out of the way of the wildfires which swept through California in 2017. That experience really got him thinking about the design of his home though and he decided to build something more compact which was more easily moved.

This week we give you a full tour of our ambulance camper (we call it our campulance) which we use travel and camp all over North America!

This spectacular off-the-grid tiny home on wheels in Australia is a true beauty! Constructed as a do-it-yourself build, the house is designed to be open and spacious.

After graduating from university, this entrepreneurial young couple kick started their next phase of life by building an incredible eco tiny house together!

This off-the-grid home in Adelaide, Australia is something completely different! An Earthship is a radically sustainable and self-sufficient building which uses a combination of modern off-grid technology, super clever passive solar design techniques and a whole lot of recycled materials (including trash) all mixed with earth building techniques to create an incredible, high performance home.

It’s that time of year again! In this weeks episode, things get Christmasy at the tiny house as the elves set about decorating our tiny home on wheels.

In this video, we explore our top five living big tiny house tour videos of 2018. This year, we have visited so many incredible tiny homes and it was certainly tough to choose a top 5.