In this weeks video we visit a stunning modern small 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 episode we visit an incredible 150 year old sailing ship which has been hoisted into the trees and turned into a pirate ship treehouse. This is just one of the incredible accomodation spaces that can be found at Tanglewood Retreat in Auckland, New Zealand and this week we will be exploring them all!

After 15 years of working as an architect in Hong Kong, Bobbie is certainly no stranger to small space design. Having returned to New Zealand and after going through a separation, she decided it was time to put her design skills to the test and create a wonderful, functional tiny home for her and her two children

With all the hassle and stress of modern living, chances are there has been a time in your life where you wished you could leave the pressures of the world behind and escape to an idyllic, off-the-grid cabin amongst the calming powers of nature. In this weeks episode, we meet an inspiring couple who did exactly that, building their own incredible cabin by the river.

In this weeks episode, we explore a stunning, modern, urban-industrial style tiny house in Auckland, New Zealand. Described as a tiny mansion, this stunning tiny house is packed full of brilliant design features which make living in this home a dream come true for owners Kyron and Natalia.

This stunning tiny house on wheels is packed full of absolutely game changing design! There is a saying in architecture that you should build your first home for your enemy, the second for your friend and the third for yourself. Good design takes time and practice to get things right, and this home truly is the result of years of experimentation and small space design exploration.

In this weeks episode, we meet Gina, a tiny house builder from the Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand, who has created a stunning, modern tiny house that is packed full of clever design and storage ideas and which even has an amazing library loft with a net floor! Originally designed as a spec home, this tiny house was assembled from different, left over and miss-ordered components from other builds and for that reason is affectionally named ‘The Bitser’. Gina fell so in love with the design that she decided to buy it herself and make it her own.

This week, we take a look back over some of our past episodes to highlight some of the best storage ideas for tiny homes. Even if you’re a minimalist, you still need some stuff! When designing a tiny house, it’s essential that you build in enough storage space so that you can ensure everything in your home has a place. 

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 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!

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

In this weeks episode we see an old favourite, with a brand new twist! This stunning tiny house in Queensland, Australia is a wonderful blend of Scandinavian and Japanese design, taking the best of both worlds and creating a beautiful and wonderfully functional home. It’s design is heavily based on the Zen Tiny House in Byron Bay, but this home has some brilliant modifications and unique features which make it a home perfectly suited to owner Leah.

Stunningly constructed and packed full of brilliant small space design ideas, this modern tiny house on wheels situated in Queensland, Australia is definitely one that you’re going to want to check out!

This amazing DIY tiny house is packed full of super clever small space design ideas. Every inch of this home has been thoroughly thought through to create a super functional and beautiful home for its builders / owners, Chris and Mariëlle. The home has also found a really unique parking spot, in a quiet corner of a nudist club!

In a city like Auckland, New Zealand, it can be especially difficult for young people to get a hold on the housing ladder. With an average house price of close to 1 million dollars and rent prices to match many have effectively been priced out of the housing market entirely to the extent that many refer to young New Zealander’s as generation rent. Cam and Amanda are an enterprising young couple who thought outside of the box and decided to get onto the housing ladder by constructing an unconventional first home in the form of a tiny house, which allows them to live now in their own home in one of the worlds most expensive cities.

So many of us dream of a life on the road, and this family turned that dream into a reality by building a tiny house on wheels and traveling full time all over New Zealand. Their home is beautiful, functional, compact and perfectly designed to meet the unique needs of a traveling tiny house on New Zealand’s roads.

It’s crazy times around the globe as the world goes into lockdown in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19. In this video, we check in with some of our tiny house family around the globe to see how they are dealing with life in a tiny house while in lockdown / self-isolation / quarantine. 

At 17m2 (182ft2) this house may be tiny, but for owner Stef it’s a huge step onto the housing ladder! Steph was attracted to the idea of living in a tiny house as she was drawn to their simplicity, minimalism and a home which could allow her to focus on other things in life, while also being closer to nature and living a life with a smaller environmental footprint.

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!

If you’ve ever dreamed of building a completely off-the-grid small house with a large enough solar system to even charge an electric car, then this is the home for you! Constructed in Northland, New Zealand, this amazing 40ft shipping container home has it all, including an amazing solar array large enough to not only power the home, but also an electric vehicle.

This mind blowing tiny house on wheels is without a doubt one of the most clever designs we have seen on the show so far! In this episode, we explore the homes of Cahute in France, where builder Thomas is constructing beautiful, ultra-compact and eco friendly tiny houses on wheels which are perfectly designed for both full time living and full time travel on the narrow roads of Europe.

One of the things which makes tiny houses on wheels so unique is the fact that they sit on wheels and are able to move and travel with relative ease. Few tiny home owners really take full advantage of their moving foundations, yet some do! In this weeks episode we explore the incredible tiny house of Jonathan and Yunaë, an intrepid couple who have set out to travel the world in their amazing do-it-yourself built tiny home.

In this weeks episode we explore our very first tiny house in France! The tiny house movement has rapidly been growing in France which has now become a hot spot for tiny homes and small space design in Europe. Looking at this tiny house, you can quickly understand why! The home’s design is elegant, simple and very unique making it a dream, minimalist tiny house on wheels.

In this weeks episode, we venture into the wild woods of Wales to meet a remarkable woman who lives close to nature, in an earthen home which she constructed herself for only £1000. Here, she lives without electricity, running water, the internet or even a telephone, yet insists that she is not going without, but is living a life of luxury in her dream home.

This inspiring young woman has turned her love of woodworking into the ultimate accomplishment by building her very own home! Florence was inspired to build a tiny house after watching the movement growing around the world, especially in the US and Australia. Building her own home has been a long time dream and a tiny house seemed like the perfect way to make that happen.

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.

Amazingly, Tom was only 17 years old when he bought a trailer and began construction of his very own tiny house on wheels. He had just began a building apprenticeship and set about taking the skills he was learning on the job and applying them to the construction of his own home. The entire home was constructed on a tight budget, using mostly reclaimed materials to save on costs. Thanks to his DIY attitude and resourceful nature, Tom was able to complete his home for an incredible £6,000 (under US$8k).

2019 has been a really big year for tiny houses and Rasa and I have been traveling the world seeking out the very best small space designs to share with all of you. We feel truly privileged to be able to share these wonderful homes with you as well as the beautiful people who live inside them. Years ago when I started this website and video series I thought that there would come a time when I had seen everything that a tiny house could offer. I now believe that human creativity is limitless and there will always be new and exciting innovation in the world of small space design.

This Christmas we wanted to do something really special and show how tiny house families all over the world are getting ready to celebrate Christmas. In this video, we’ve asked people who were featured on the channel this year to send in a video with a Christmas message and showing how their own tiny homes have been decorated for the season.

In this weeks episode, we travel to Cowlitz County, Washington to visit an amazing shipping container home which is sure to impress! This stunning house has been constructed from one 40ft shipping container with another 20ft container stacked on top to create an impressive and fully featured home.

This World War 2 railway train carriage has been beautifully transformed into an amazing tiny house which is simply out of this world! The whole conversion project is filled with clever small space design and the interior of this home is like stepping into a wonderful piece of living history.

Of all the caravans, few are more iconic and loved than the airstream. There’s something about the design of an airstream which makes you think of adventure and life lived on the open road. The Airstream featured in this weeks video tour is no different, except it’s been completely renovated into a stunning, modern tiny house and designed for full time living and travel.

This modern architecturally designed tiny house on wheels is sure to impress! Within it’s small footprint, this home is filled with some big ideas to really help make the space work for it’s tall owner, including a raising bed mechanism and an especially clever hidden shower!

There’s something magical about the desert. The harsh landscape can be a quick reminder of both the fragility and resilience of life and a stark reminder of our own connection with and reliance on nature and all that it provides for us. In this weeks episode, we travel to the desert of California to meet Sasha and John, earth builders at the Quail Springs Permaculture community and talk with them about their beautiful tiny earthen home.

Biophilic design is a term which refers to the connection between our built environment and the living world around us. It speaks to our innate love of nature, our biosphere and connection with living systems. This tiny house has been designed to incorporate elements of biophilic design and natural building to construct a home which is beautiful, natural and healthy to live in, proving that a tiny house can truly be capable of having a big positive impact.

This inspiring family have gone off-the-grid, living in a beautiful tiny house tent which they constructed on an acre of land next to a river in New Mexico. In this re-visited episode, we catch up with the family a year after our first video and marking the two year anniversary of living in the tent to see how they are getting on.

This couple have built an absolutely beautiful, modern tiny house, and best of all, they have pulled off the entire build for a budget equivalent to just a years worth of rent in San Diego. In this weeks episode, we explore this stunning tiny house and meet its builders. 

As an interior designer, Kim Lewis’s work has been seen on various hit television shows such as Extreme Home Make-Over and Tiny House Nation. In this weeks episode, we explore Kim’s own home which she has created together with her husband, film-maker Joey Puterbaugh. This home has been uniquely constructed from two tiny houses on wheels which cleverly fit together to create a spectacular 500 square foot (45sqm) home.

This week I am so excited to be able to share something really special with you all. A full video tour of our very own tiny house on wheels in New Zealand. For those who have been following my journey from the very beginning, you’ve been waiting a very long time for this reveal and I’m so happy to be able to finally share the completed home with you after almost 5 years!

This week, we travel to Melbourne to visit the incredible micro apartment of architect Douglas Wan. Originally constructed in the 1950’s, the apartment was originally intended as nursers quarters. Its now been completely reimagined for modern living and transformed into a stylish and exceptionally clever micro studio apartment.

  This school bus has been converted into a spectacular tiny home on wheels. Completely off-the-grid, with solar power and water supply, this is a house which is designed to go anywhere all while being a beautiful and functional home.

Yurts have always been one of my favourite forms of traditional housing.Originally, a yurt is a portable round, insulated tent used  by nomadic groups of central Asia. They are designed to be easily moved and are capable of keeping people comfortable in extreme weather conditions. This incredible small home in Portland, Oregon is a contemporary modern take on the traditional home, which is designed to take yurt living to the next level and give it a unique, updated architectural edge.

This stunning tiny house situated in Austin Texas is sure to impress. Molly and Ken decided to build a tiny house to enable them to save money and travel the world. For a small house, this home is packed full of some really big features including an incredible Sauna which has been built into the bathroom. 

 Nestled into the forest in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia is the tiny house of Rebecca and Cass. Built of wood, stone and with earthen walls, this is a home designed to connect with the natural world, a place where time can slow down and where life can be simple and beautiful.

In this weeks episode we explore a beautiful, cottage-style tiny house located just outside of Oklahoma City. For a long time, Jeremy and Kasey had dreamed of building their own tiny house on wheels and several years ago that dream turned into a reality when Jeremy, a carpenter by trade, brought the couple’s paper sketches to life. 

When we first visited Phil, him and his wife Cynthia were living in a beautiful, whimsical tiny house in Tofino BC. He was completely off the grid, powering his home with solar, hydro and even human power via a bicycle. Be sure to check out our first tour of the home here.

 Designed to perfectly meet the needs of a family of four, this fantastic farmhouse-style tiny home on wheels is packed full of great design ideas! This home is as wonderfully styled as it is functional. It’s everything that a young family could hope for.

From the moment you approach this incredible tiny house on wheels, you know that you’re about to experience something very special. Constructed as a DIY project by owner / builder Matt, this tiny house is more than just a dream home, it’s a testament to overcoming adversity and what is possible when you really set your mind to making something happen.