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Small is Beautiful now available!
The documentary Small is Beautiful is now available online! Find your preferred method here and get to watching this stunningly vulnerable and inspiring treatment of three different tiny house builds....
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Late > Never
Waaaaay back in April, the first ever Tiny House Conference was held in Portland, Oregon. Though I didn’t attend all the sessions, I was present for the premier of Small is Beautiful (a gorgeous film...
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Housing Justice and University Life, oh my!
Firstly, early in negotiating life in the tiny, I did some writing to help me sort through my thinkings. One of those writings turned into a little something that was included in the 2015 issue of The...
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the force. of space, honestly.
Admission: I haven’t seen the movie yet, but because it’s everywhere in our cultural imagination, it is shamelessly used here as attention grabbing material. Warning: Like the franchise of movies, this...
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comparisons
The history of the tiny house on wheels is as old as the wheels underneath them; that is, they emerged almost simultaneously with automobiles. They are, as a friend so astutely noted, the American...
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Coming Home
Almost every day I see a new city initiative to bring tiny homes to those who need them – not for accumulation, or even for saving money to secure a place in that shrinking category we call the...
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The Tiny, she moves me. and maybe you.
It is with a sense of profundity that I announce that I am selling my tiny. I never named her, besides knowing the home as her and calling her “the tiny.” But still, she has (and is) my heart. We...
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updates, uplifts, and up endings
Update: I didn’t sell the tiny! I am working with a friend to keep it on property through this school year. This means that my house will be looked after and loved AND still mine! Hooray. More updates...
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#tinyhousesowhite
ammiright? no? okay, let’s talk. (This post is responding in part to Lee Pera’s excellent, honest, and compassionate piece ‘“Everyone’s Welcome’: The facade of the tiny house movement,” and the...
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The wheels and their cycles.
I have big, sad, beautiful news. The tiny house found her new home! After all the work, joy, and tears that came with building and living in her, seeing her off was rich with complex emotions. She held...
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