Dave Whipple — Bushradical on YouTube — built a 10×16 off-grid cabin on remote land in the northern Midwest, racing early snow and sleeping in a tent on the property while he worked. The cabin is about 160 square feet inside, with a 5×16 porch out front, a wood stove, and tongue-and-groove walls and ceiling. Nothing fancy, he says. Just a simple little cabin in the woods.
Margo Fairchild started with an Amish shed shell — 12×20, $8,800, just floor, studs, and a roof — and finished it into her dream home in Central Virginia for about $47,000. Tiny Home Tours walks the house: a full-size tub, a queen loft, a diner booth that seats four, and a kitchen sized around the bathtub she refused to cut. She’s lived here about four years.
At the edge of a forest garden in the village of Háj, Slovakia — near Košice and the ruins of Turniansky Castle — an 18-meter stone tower rises like something out of a fantasy novel. It was not drawn up for a developer. It was built, almost entirely alone, by Peter Šimkanin, who started stacking stone in 2011 and spent roughly 12 years on the tower (plus about three more on a Hobbit-house bathroom). He recently submitted the project to Tiny House Talk, and it is one of the coolest reader builds we have seen.
Most prefab housing arrives on a flatbed and still needs weeks of finish work. The BoxHouse Duplex takes a different route: it ships folded flat, gets lifted into place by a crane, and unfolds into two complete, self-contained homes — each with its own front door, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. BoxHouse says a prepared site can go from empty pad to secured, standing building in as little as a day.
It is a 380 sq. ft. building split down the middle into two 190 sq. ft. units, which puts it in an interesting spot for anyone thinking about rental income, multigenerational living, or a backyard that needs to house two households instead of one. Below we walk through the design, the fold-out system that makes it possible, and the timelapse video that shows the whole deployment in a couple of minutes.
Images courtesy of BoxHouse
Geoff Daigle and Candace bought this ESCAPE eONE in November 2024 as a rental in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. They’re fans of tiny-home efficiency. On Airbnb and VRBO it went to traveling professionals who preferred it over hotels, and to snowbirds who stayed a month at a time.
The RV park is no longer allowing rentals, so they are selling. The house is 408 square feet, fully furnished, and listed at $85,000. You can move it — or move into the Florida site at $575/month plus electricity.
A vintage 1965 Airstream Caravel — 17 feet, 2,250 pounds, all-new 50-amp electric and no propane — is listed for $65,000 just outside Richmond. Tiny Haven named her Sol.
Danielle and Jonathan renovated this one as a mid-century modern apartment on wheels: full kitchen, tiled bath, a custom couch that pulls out into a double bed, and all the decor. Let’s take a closer look.
If you’ve been waiting for a 2,000-lb hard-sided adventure trailer that a smaller SUV can actually tow, this is the one sitting in Boulder. It’s a 2020 AntiShanty AS-1 Plus, built in Utah by Spectrum Sports / AntiShanty, listed at $35,000. Pre-owned, no land, 60 square feet on the listing. The owner puts it at about 2,000 lbs with a 3,500-lb GVWR, electric brakes, a clean title, and a single owner. New AS-1s start at $39,900; this used Plus is listed under that starting price.
Most camping trailers ask you to own a truck first. The Urbanoid Booba starts from the opposite end of the problem: it was designed around the smallest car you might already have parked outside your apartment. At roughly 530 pounds empty and just 54 inches wide at the shoulder, this glossy little clamshell can be pulled by a Fiat 500 — including the electric one — and it happily follows quads and trikes too.
Urbanoid, based in Kaiserslautern, Germany, calls what the Booba does “tenting” rather than caravanning. Closed, it looks like an oversized automotive suitcase: fiber-composite shell, a ribbed lid, and a chrome strip that would not look out of place on a scooter. Open it, air up the tent structure, and you get a two-person bedroom with a real mattress base, a wraparound dinette for four, and enough headroom to change clothes standing at the doorway.
The trick that makes it interesting for small-space enthusiasts is what happens when the trip ends. Roll the Booba onto its optional stand and it stands upright, about 7.5 feet tall on a footprint of roughly 46 inches — a slice of wall in a normal single-car garage, next to the car that towed it.
Images courtesy of Urbanoid
Caitlin wanted to build her own home — and her dad, a carpenter, was all in. Starting in 2014, they spent about three years crafting an off-grid tiny house on a 24-foot trailer. She found land next to the build site, towed the house up a dirt “road” with a small bulldozer, and settled in. Materials came together over time (she didn’t keep perfect books), but the whole project landed around $30,000–$40,000. Eight years later, she’s still there: a huge covered porch, sweeping views, and a house full of Caitlin and her dad’s woodwork.
