Lindsay and Eric’s DIY THOW with a Steam Room! On July 8, 2021 After writing a check for $65,000, Eric and Lindsay got the dreaded call: The builder for their tiny house was going out of business, leaving them with a very pricey, partially-done custom THOW they needed to pick up and finish on their own.
Determined to make the best of it, the couple completed the home themselves and the result is a stunning 33-foot gooseneck THOW with a steam room shower, and tons of other awesome amenities including an office space and “crawl-in” closet. Believe it or not, they take this home on the road with them while travelling! Groupe public L'Algérie d'antan en images d'"ALEPOK" Composting Toilet and Greywater System.
Today I received our Nature's Head Composting Toilet, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to talk a little bit about how we're dealing with wastewater in the tiny house.
It's actually quite simple, really. Dreamspace Tiny Homes: Composting Toilet and Greywater System. Adding A Throne To Your Tiny Home. Okay, so everyone does it.
But does everyone have to talk about it? “What does whale poop look like? Some stop to poop. Others do it on the move.” These lines made famous in the book Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi is perhaps a beginners edition to the ever-present conversation amongst tiny housers. This low-tech composting toilet is little more than a bucket with a toilet seat filled with a little sawdust. I am beyond familiar with RV toilets having lived on the road in a 28′ travel trailer for two years. Okay, so the proper name of this throne is Incinerating Toilet. Much like the RV toilet the traditional, American, porcelain throne requires plumbing, septic access, fresh water, etc. The Kimberly™ Wood Stove. When Roger Lehet and his family lived on a 30-foot boat during a winter on the Puget Sound, they struggled to keep themselves warm and dry.
Then Roger developed the Kimberly™ gasifier wood stove. Never did they imagine that their highly efficient small wood stove would one day be selected as one of 14 finalists out of 261 entries in the Wood Stove Decathlon, sponsored in part by Popular Mechanics magazine. Your off-grid or on-grid living solution Seen on Tree House Masters and Tiny House Nation! Ultra efficient and clean Produces just 3.2 grams/hour, less than half the allowed EPA emissionsEPA-certified, CSA-certified, OMNI-Test Labs ListedWashington state EPA-certified, the toughest state standards in the United StatesBurns up to 8 hours on a single load of fuel, providing a good night’s sleep (depending on wood) Quality engineering.
24 Storage Hacks to Create More Space in Tiny Homes. The following 24 storage hacks to create more space in your tiny home or tiny apartment has been contributed by Jessica Sanders on behalf of Add People and Solent Plastics.
The following ideas work in just about any size house to make better use of the space you have. The info graphic below gives you some simple and smart ideas on how to add space in your living areas, your closet, kitchen, bathroom, and more. Please enjoy and re-share it below. Thank you! Portable woodstove folds down, heats up tents, yurts & tiny homes. Camping often means getting comfortable with bugs, sleeping bags, temperamental weather and other joys of the outdoors.
But besides building a nice fire to keep warm, or using a DIY rocket stove, sometimes it's nice to bring some heat into a chilly tent. This portable wood stove design -- which can conveniently fold down to a compact, easy-to-carry package -- might just do the trick to heat up the interior of a tent, tiny house, yurt or van. Electricity-free dishwasher cleans dishes in just one minute. There has long been a debate over what method of dish washing has the lowest environmental impact: hand washing or using a dishwasher.
The consensus is that dishwashers are the better choice because they most efficiently use water, using an average of 6 gallons of water -- or only 2 to 4 gallons for Energy Star efficient models -- per full load, whereas hand washing consumes 2 gallons of water for every minute the faucet is running and far more soap. The energy use for heating the water for hand washing a full load versus using a built-in dishwasher is trickier to compare because it could be very different or very similar based on a lot of factors, but both of those methods require energy for heating water. A new device called the Circo Independent dishwasher does not. The Circo is a manual dishwasher that not only cuts out the energy use of a typical dishwasher but also saves a lot of water compared to hand washing using only 0.7 gallons of water per load.
The Kimberly Wood Stove™ 24 Storage Hacks to Create More Space in Tiny Homes. A Tiny Wood Stove for Ella’s Tiny House. It’s an incredibly well designed and USA made stove with some very cool features, if you want to read more, check out Unforgettable Fire’s website and the tiny-house-specific Kimberly website here.” – Ella at Little Yellow Door.
Complete Mini Kitchens. Building a tiny house kitchen can be time consuming depending on your carpentry skills and what you choose to put into it.
Costs can skyrocket if you have expensive tastes and hire professionals to help. One option is to get a complete prebuilt kitchen unit – although even these range in price from several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars. For example the Kitchen Armoire pictured here costs about $8,000, and it’s probably a best in class example. When not in use it hides away behind elegant cabinetry and contains a sink, refrigerator, convection oven/microwave, and ceramic cooktop. The cooktop and oven are also setup to shut down when the cabinet doors are closed as a safety precaution. Tiny House Gear – The best tiny house gear, all in one place.