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Stylish Little House Fit For a Family

While it’s a nice idea to think a family could live in a sub 300 sq ft tiny house, the reality is that at a certain point you have to concede you can only downsize so much before quality of life.

There Is More than One Way to Skin a Tiny House

One of the bigger charges against tiny living is the lack of variance in style. You either have your stark and modern high end micro apartment in the city or your hyper-traditional, wood-clad tiny house out in the sticks. Well,.

A Very Big Idea in Tiny House Living

Make fun of Portland all you want, but few American cities (probably none) are showing more creativity with their zoning in order to provide affordable, transit friendly housing options. Their liberal policy about setting up tiny houses in backyards as ADUs is particularly unique..

Tiny House Conference Coming to Portland Later This Month

There’s little doubt that tiny houses have caught the public imagination, if not widespread municipal zoning board approval. One place where the approval–both in its citizenry and legislative bodies–is Portland, Oregon. So it’s only fitting that the city would be.

Small, Stylish Home Takes Over Garage

We’ve expressed our love of the accessory dwelling unit (ADU) in the past. To us, they represent a great solution for adding density to more spread-out, car-intensive, suburban areas–a vitally important conversation in the micro-housing world. We ran across this.

Is Portland Getting Ready for a Tiny House Revolution?

Necessity, as the saying goes, is the mother of invention. The necessity in Portland–not to mention many other places–is housing the homeless and other economically marginalized citizens. The invention is the formation of low-cost tiny house communities throughout the city.

David Friedlander
Architecture
May 23, 2014
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Cutting the Housing-Car Umbilical Cord

Whether you’re aware of it or not, most homes–or to be more precise, “dwelling units”–require parking. Meeting these requirements is not a big deal in low density suburbs with their copious amounts of space for driveways and garages. But it’s a big issue.

David Friedlander
Architecture
Dec 10, 2013
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Small Rooms Lead to Big Row

Apparently, strong coffee and grey skies aren’t the only commonality between Seattle and Portland. Like its northern neighbor, Portland has jumped on the micro-apartment bandwagon. More specifically, Portland is mirroring Seattle’s boarding-house style micro-apartments (often known as aPodments, which are actually the name.

David Friedlander
Architecture
Aug 1, 2013
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Take a Tiny House Vacation

You’re not a true minimalist if you don’t have a tiny house fantasy. You have it all mapped out: You’ll quit your job. Next, you’ll get rid of your current home and all your possessions except a spoon, pocket knife.

They Don’t Get Any Tinier Than This…But No Solar Panels?

We love tiny houses. The trailer-mounted dinky digs, often less than 100 sq ft, epitomize the spirit of doing more with less. This video shows off one woman’s tiny house that’s a wonder of sustainability and the tiniest we’ve ever.