The little square footage means tiny homes are much cheaper than your typical house. In some cases, it can be cheaper to buy a pre-built home. This depends on whether you're considering building a ...

The following examples show floor plans under 500 sq ft. To make the distinction clearer, we’ll use the metric system. We hope to show you that tiny homes have a lot of potential and can be very ...

BOISE -- In November 2011, Macy Miller began working on her big plans for a tiny house: A 196 square-foot tiny house to be exact. Miller is a designer at a commercial architecture office. She wanted ...

House plans are typically larger than those of a typical apartment. However, not everyone wants a big house. Some find small ...

Every January, as we build up to the big International Builders Show, there are a million stories about model homes and dream house plans, all many thousand square feet and full of many rooms serving ...

Paying rent in a bloated market isn’t working for you? Have the piles of stuff you’ve hoarded in your closets finally forced you to scream: “I’m ready for a purge”? Maybe you just want to live a ...

The cost of buying a house today can be prohibitively expensive, so it's no surprise that tiny home builds appear to be increasingly popular. We've featured a number on Gizmag over the last few year ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Big (or, actually small) news, folks! Living large (or even medium-sized) is officially a thing of the past. Settling in a tiny house (particularly the modern farmhouse variety) is more than just a ...