The LightHotel is an interesting project from Geoffrey Warner, famed designer of the weeHouse and founder of Alchemy Architects. It’s made out of a 20-foot shipping container set atop a double-axle trailer, a decidedly unusual combination, and it has an even more unusual modus operandi as a hotel: It travels the Twin Cities, accepting Airbnb […]
Tiny House Spotlight
Honey on the Rock – and a tub on top!
Daniel Weddle, who started out small – like, real small – before building his gorgeously idiosyncratic personal THOW, now has a whole crew under him at his Bloomington, Indiana, business Carpenter Owl. Over the last year or so they’ve been making tiny houses, studio sheds and camper shells, mostly on the small side and all […]
Spread your wings on Siesta Key with the roomy Dragonfly-28
The tiny house world just keeps on getting bigger. The last time we saw Robinson Residential’s Dragonfly it was a 159-square-foot demo unit; and when we looked at a first-of-its-kind tiny home beach park in Sarasota, Florida, it was so new that it had just one house and no name. Now Tiny House Siesta is […]
The extraordinary SaltBox
Extraordinary Structures indeed! The SaltBox from the Santa Fe company of that name is, visually and technically, one of the most original THOWs we’ve seen for quite a while. Built with technical assistance from the nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory (!), it features CNC-cut panels of 22-gauge steel mounted on a steel exoskeleton that also […]
Tiny House Building Company’s Bayview
The Bayview is one of the baker’s dozen of models currently offered by Tiny House Building Company of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The 28-foot triple-axle THOW doesn’t show much more whimsy than the company’s name; aside from the sliding glass doors on the front end it’s almost entirely devoid of design flourishes. Simple, straightforward and unfurnished does […]