Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter

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These days, homeowners, designers, architects (no less), road gypsies, water dwellers, dreamers, people of all ages, all over the world are making do creatively with under-500 sq. ft. shelters. This is a real and powerful alternative to high rents, or a lifelong obligation to a bank on an overpriced home.

The heart of our 1973 book Shelter was on small buildings, which we recommended as a starting point in providing one's own living space. Now, almost 40 years later, there's a ...

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Overview

These days, homeowners, designers, architects (no less), road gypsies, water dwellers, dreamers, people of all ages, all over the world are making do creatively with under-500 sq. ft. shelters. This is a real and powerful alternative to high rents, or a lifelong obligation to a bank on an overpriced home.

The heart of our 1973 book Shelter was on small buildings, which we recommended as a starting point in providing one's own living space. Now, almost 40 years later, there's a significant tiny house movement all over the world -which we've been tracking over the past year.

John Field sold his 2800 sq. ft. house in upstate New York and built a 128 ft. cabin in the high Texas desert. The "Lady on the Road" (who wishes to remain anonymous), has been living full-time in a highly decorated bus since she was 51 (she's now 72). A couple in British Columbia have a houseboat with adjacent floating garden. A rustic cabin has been built on a remote beach in Mendocino, inspired by our book Shelter, and reachable only by boat. A lot of small houses have been built on trailers, so they can be moved around and don't necessarily require land ownership.
More and more people are living in buses, trucks, houseboats, and other movable shelters. There are a large number of prefabs and kits now available. There are innovative solutions in cities, such as the "capsules" in Tokyo. There are numerous websites with news, photos, and/or plans for tiny houses.

This is going to be a spectacular book, no kidding! It will be our first major building block since Builders of the Pacific Coast was published in 2008. Like our other building books, it will have at least 1000 photos, along with stories, interviews, and insights from people who have chosen to scale back in the 21st century.

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Lloyd Kahn's 1973 Shelter helped inspire a tiny home movement that continues to blossom in unexpected places and ways. This standalone follow-up demonstrates how small size can matter when you do it right. Its pocket-sized cabins, houseboats, buses, trucks, and prefabs display a winning and an envy-provoking simplicity. (Let's be honest: How many of us often feel as if we are prisoners of home cleaning and maintenance?) Tiny Homes can win you over with even a casual browse and it reminds us that the rest of the world is still out there. Editor's recommendation.

— Michelle Marozik

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780936070520
  • Publisher: Shelter Publications, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/24/2012
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 228
  • Sales rank: 63,885
  • Product dimensions: 8.90 (w) x 11.90 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Tiny Homes on Foundations
For the Love of Snow . . . 2
The Sugar Shack . . . 12
Little House in the Backyard . . . 14
The Field Lab . . . 18
LaMar’s $2,000 Solar Cabin . . . 20
The Shed of Reality . . . 22
Backyard Chicken Coop Yacht . . . 24
House for One Person . . . 28
14´ × 14´ Post and Beam . . . 30
Rich in the Woods . . . 32
$1,000 Cabin on the Coast . . . 33
Art’s Bedroom . . . 34
Small Structures . . . 36
The Phoenix Commotion . . . 38
Ons Tweede Huis . . . 40
Kim & Jonny’s Cabin . . . 42
Tiny Texas Houses . . . 44
Rethinking Normal . . . 50
Friends in High Places . . . 51

Tiny Homes on Wheels
Jalopy Cabins . . . 52
Tumbleweed Tiny Houses . . . 54
Little House on the Trailer . . . 58
Oregon Cottage Company . . . 60
Jenine’s Two Tiny Houses . . . 62
ProtoHaus . . . 66
Building a Tiny House on Wheels . . . 68
Pallet House Project . . . 69

Tiny Homes by Architects
Judith Mountain Cabin . . . 70
Prefab Cottage . . . 72
Jeffery Broadhurst . . . 74
Tokyo Capsule Hotel . . . 78
TYIN Tegnestue Architects . . . 80
weeHouses . . . 82

Prefabs and Kits
Reclaimed Space . . . 84
Small House Innovation . . . 86
Bungalow in a Box . . . 87
Cabana Village . . . 88
YardPods . . . 89
Montana Mobile Cabins . . . 90
Tom’s Cabin . . . 92
More Prefabs & Kits . . . 94
Online Building . . . 98

Earthy Materials
Hani’s Man Cave . . . 100
Bill and Athena Steen . . . 102
Hobbit House in Wales . . . 108
Ziggy’s Cob Cottage . . . 110
The Laughing House . . . 114
The Mudgirls of BC . . . 116
Pallet/Cob Backyard Shed . . . 119
Straw Bale / Cob House in Oregon . . . 120
Cobworks . . . 122
Cob/Wood Roundhouse in Wales . . . 126
Dogon Dome . . . 128
Big Sky Yurt . . . 130
Sauna on Haida Gwaii . . . 132
Baja Surfer’s Shack . . . 134
Ardheia . . . 136
Solar Potting Shed . . . 144
Driftwood Beach Shack . . . 146
Bouncing Bridge with Troll Booth . . . 148

Treehouses
Crystal River Treehouse . . . 150
Treebane . . . 154
Lapas Nest Treehouse . . . 156
Lakeside Treehouse . . . 160
Deek Diedrickson . . . 162
Taylor Camp . . . 164

On the Road
Lloyd’s Van . . . 166
Hornby Island Caravans . . . 168
The Flying Tortoise . . . 170
Vardo /Sheep Wagon . . . 172
Simplify, Simplify . . . 174
Nicolette’s € 1,000 Wagen . . . 176
ProtoStoga . . . 178
Jay Nelson . . . 180
Baja Road Travel . . . 182
Big Red . . . 183
Artist in a Van . . . 184
Lady on the Road . . . 186
Bernie Harberts’ Covered Wagon . . . 188
The Horsebox House . . . 190
American Nomad Rigs . . . 192
Vintage Campers . . . 196

On the Water
Paul, Julie, and Mia on the High Seas . . . 198
Sailing Yacht “Misty”. . . 204
Floating Homestead in BC . . . 206
Ontario Boathouse . . . 208
Our Little Cabin up the Lake. . . 210
Narrowboats . . . 212

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  • Posted April 16, 2012

    Great for anyone interested in minimizing

    Beautiful photos and first person accounts of people from all walks of life who have downsized. Whether you want a studio or guest place or just to live simply this book has great information and links to lots of further research. I am inspired to reduce many things in my life.

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  • Posted March 5, 2012

    Perfect picture book for wannabe small homes people!

    Filled with pictures of homes of 500 square feet or less, this book gives you a good idea of how to compact and compress your footprint on this earth. Other books on small homes give more details (and floor plans, etc.), but this book is a great place to browse and/or daydream, before taking action (if any).

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 19, 2013

    not reommended

    showed tiny houses they all pretty much looked alike. i didnt find it very interesting. not much about campers in their disappointed

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