Living Big in a Tiny House

The tiny house movement in England is starting to really gain momentum, as house prices drive people towards alternative living. Tom is a pioneer in the movement, being one of the first in the country to build a tiny home.

This amazing Lord of the Rings inspired van conversion is sure to impress! After his divorce, retired police officer turned wood-carver Glen wanted to do something different and follow his dream of converting a van into a wonderful tiny home on wheels. If you enjoy our videos, please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/livingbig

This young woman has turned her love of wood-working into the ultimate accomplishment, building her very own home! After falling in love with the idea of a tiny house on wheels, and staying in several during her travels, upon returning to England, Florence was inspired into action and started crafting her very own tiny house.

This weeks episode takes us to the wild woods of Wales, where a remarkable woman has chosen to live close to nature in a £1000 tiny earthen home, with no running water, electricity, or internet.

This French couple have built their dream tiny house. Located in an idyllic rural garden on the outskirts of Nantes, France, Celia and Damien’s home may be tiny, but it’s filled with some really big design ideas. Their tiny home is beautifully constructed, with cedar and metal construction on the exterior creating a striking architectural look while the interior has been kept wonderfully open, spacious and minimalist in its design.

In this weeks episode we meet Jonathan and Yunaë, an inspiring couple who are traveling the world in their amazing DIY built tiny house on wheels. Their home is beautifully constructed and has been designed to meet the challenges of global travel and life on the road.

This mind blowing tiny house on wheels has it all! Completely off the grid and sized at just 10m2 (107 f2) including the loft, this ultra compact home is packed full of clever design ideas. Ingenious construction techniques and lightweight, eco-friendly materials make this tiny house perfect for full time living and travel on European roads.

This professional online gamer and YouTuber has built an amazing tiny house for herself with an epic computer and live-streaming set-up! For all those tiny house loving gamers out there, this is definitely a home that will make you swoon!

This amazing 40ft shipping container home in Northland, New Zealand is designed to be completely off the grid and has a huge solar system which provides enough power to even charge an electric car!

Stylish, modern and ultra minimal, this beautiful, architecturally designed tiny house is sure to impress. From is all-black metal exterior to it's minimalist plywood interior, this solar-powered home is one you are definitely going to want to check out!

This beautiful tiny house on wheels has become a dream first home, allowing one young woman to escape the rent and mortgage traps and get her start on the housing ladder!

How are people who live in tiny houses dealing with self-isolation?! In this video, we reached out to people who we have featured on the show in the past to catch up and see how they are coping with life in lockdown in their tiny homes.

This intrepid family sold up their home and began a life of adventure by building a tiny house on wheels which they use to travel New Zealand full time. CJ, Amy-Lee loved to travel but realised they hadn’t seen a lot of their own country. A tiny house on wheels was the perfect way to travel, while keeping a solid place to call home for the family.

Finding an affordable place to live in a city like Auckland, New Zealand is no easy task! When the average cost of a home sits at around $1 million, young people especially can have a really difficult time getting their foot on the housing ladder. Cam and Amanda found their way out of the rent trap and into their first home by building a tiny house on wheels.

Mariëlle and Chris wanted to build a tiny house as it was an affordable housing option that would allow them to also try their hands and building something themselves. As the couple are both from different countries, they were reluctant to put all their eggs in one basket and wanted to keep the option to be able to move and travel easily. A tiny house on wheels seemed like the perfect solution.

Beautifully built and filled with great small space design ideas, this modern tiny house in Queensland, Australia is definitely one you're going to want to see!

This zen-inspired tiny house is a spectacular blend of Japanese and Scandinavian design. Packed full of super clever ideas, creative storage solutions and beautifully built, this home is one you will definitely want to check out!

This beautiful Hampton-style inspired home in Queensland, Australia is absolutely packed full of super clever small space design and storage ideas. At 12 meters in length (39ft) one is big as far a tiny homes go and each and every inch of this tiny house has been ingeniously utilised to create a stunning and functional home.

In this weeks episode, we venture to the beautiful sub-tropical Northern Rivers region of New South Wales to visit a spectacular off-the-grid tiny house on wheels, situated amongst stunning syntropic, regenerative, food forest gardens. For anyone who has dreamed of going off-the-grid and escaping to paradise to grow food and live simply, this is a video tour you will want to check out!

In this pilot episode of our Tiny Homes Of The Ancient World series, we travel 2000 years back in time to the Celtic iron-age fort and roundhouses 0f Castell Henllys. So far on Living Big in a Tiny House, we have explored tiny homes and downsized architecture from all over the world. In this new series, we aim to reach far back into our historic and prehistoric past to explore the tiny homes of the ancient world.

In good tiny house design, it's essential that you have enough space for all your things and in this video we explore some super clever storage ideas that we have seen on the show so far. To check out the full tour of any of these homes, you can find links below.

In this weeks episode we visit Gina, a tiny house builder in the Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand, who shows us around her own stunning, modern tiny house on wheels. This home is packed full of great storage and design ideas and even has a brilliant library loft with a net for a floor!

This stunning tiny house is packed full of amazing, game changing design! From the ultra clever, future-proofed layout and space-saving furniture to the incredible green-wall, exquisite reclaimed timbers and green-roof features, this truly is a dream tiny house.

In this weeks episode, we meet Kyron and Natalia who live in a stunning urban industrial styled tiny house in Auckland, New Zealand. The couple refer to their home on wheels as a tiny mansion, and they are right! This tiny house is packed full of luxurious and clever design features which make living in this home a dream.

Many of us dream of leaving the modern world behind and escaping to an idyllic off-the-grid cabin where we can relax, enjoy quiet time and be with nature. In this weeks episode, we meet an inspiring couple who did exactly that, building an amazing cabin by the river.

Working for 15 years as an architect in Hong Kong, Bobbie is no stranger to small space design. After returning home to New Zealand and going through a separation, she decided to put her design and build skills to the test to create a wonderful tiny house for her and her two children.

Tanglewood is an incredible eco sanctuary and retreat space, located in Auckland, New Zealand. Situated on an amazing regenerating property, it’s home to some wonderfully experimental tiny homes. From an old sailing ship which has been hoisted into the trees to become a pirate ship themed treehouse, to a stunning small cob cottage and idilic cabin, this eco retreat is a haven for sustainable, experimental architecture.

This week we explore a stunning small modern home which has been constructed using 3 x 20ft shipping containers. Situated near Lake Taupo, New Zealand, this home is built on a beautiful elevated section with commanding views over the lake and to the mountains beyond.

In this weeks episode we meet Michelle, an inspirational solo mother who has constructed a beautiful tiny home in order to gain financial freedom now that her children have left home.

One of the major advantages of shipping container homes is that they can be constructed off site and transported to remote locations. That's exactly what has happened with this spectacular home which has been built using a 40ft shipping container.

In this weeks episode we visit an incredible tiny home which has been constructed out of an old grain silo and transformed into a whimsical yellow submarine themed dwelling. For those who love ultra creative projects, this is a must see video!

In this weeks video we explore a wonderful colonial cottage style tiny house which has amazingly been built for only NZ$8000 (US $5000). This creative tiny house has been constructed almost entirely out of reclaimed and recycled materials and the end result is a tiny home with some big style!

In this weeks episode, we visit a wonderful young family who have built their dream off-the-grid tiny house on wheels. There are so many advantages to DIY building a tiny house beyond just the cost. You get to put your heart, soul and character into a house to truly make it your own and that's exactly what's happened with this home.

This weeks episode showcases a dynamic young couple and their amazing first tiny home. This home is modern, stylish and was an affordable way for them to get into their very own house in a city where most young people have been priced out of the housing market.

This week, we meet an inspiring Dutch woman who has built a charming and beautiful tiny home for her and her three dogs in New Zealand. Every now and then you find a home which has been perfectly crafted to meet someones needs and this is one of those places. Matilda’s tiny house on wheels is wonderfully constructed using mainly reclaimed materials and is filled with wonderful artwork and creative flair.

So many of us aspire to own a home close to the water, and it doesn’t get any closer than this! Inspired by the incredible float homes of British Columbia, this house boat in Auckland, New Zealand is sure to impress.

If you're a fan of ultra modern and minimalist design, then no doubt you're going to fall in love with this tiny house! The all black, trapezoidal exterior is absolutely striking, and the interior is spacious, well laid out and wonderfully designed to make a comfortable home.

This tiny house is as unique as it is stunning! When building a tiny house, the more time that you can spend in the design phase, the more likely you are to create a home that will truly meet your needs and that’s exactly the case with this incredible tiny house on wheels which has some absolutely unique, never before seen features!

In this weeks episode we visit Nicola and Arron, a dynamic young couple who have some big dreams for the future, that have been made possible thanks to a tiny house.

One of the most frequent questions we get asked is, 'what happens if people want to start a family in a tiny house?' In this weeks episode, we take a look at some family tiny houses and the clever ways that people have made their homes child friendly.

If you like a modern home mixed with a whole lot of rustic charm, then this tiny house could be the one for you. Beautifully designed and situated on a suburban property just outside of Auckland, New Zealand this compact house is a dream home for it’s owner / builder Lisa.

In this weeks episode we travel to the winterless North of New Zealand to visit an inspiring couple who have built an out-of-this-world tiny house with a parking spot that you won't believe!

We are constantly amazed at the weird and wonderful features that people build into their tiny houses. From beer dispensers hidden in the sofa to full sized pizza ovens built into living rooms, tiny houses are an opportunity to create something truly special and unique. This video highlights some of our favourite tiny house features from homes that we have visited over the years.

There’s nothing quite like a handcrafted home. A place where people have poured all their love and hard work into creating a unique and beautiful house that’s totally their own. This exquisitely built tiny house is just one of those homes.

This incredible off-the-grid tiny house truck has been perfectly designed to be a comfortable home on the move! Solar-powered and mounted on the back of a brand new truck, this home is ready to go anywhere!

In this weeks episode we visit Donna who has turned an idyllic corner of her New Zealand farm into a stunning glamping retreat. Designed as a glamorous getaway for couples, this picturesque corner is now a dream escape!

It’s hard to believe that it’s already Christmas time again! In this years Living Big in a Tiny House Christmas special, we celebrate the season with heart-warming messages from our tiny house family around the globe.

In this episode we take a look back over 2020 and some of the very best tiny house design we have seen on the show this year. 2020 has been a crazy year, filled with challenges and it's so exciting to see human creativity and ingenuity shining through.