25+ Brilliant Tiny Homes That Will Inspire You To Live Small

These brilliant tiny homes are beautiful in finding a low-impact solution for you and your family. Bigger isn’t always better. Fans of the tiny home movement swear by it: when we simplify our lives and live “smaller,” significant savings – and improvements to the overall quality of our life – are possible.

01. Small Traveling Microhouse

This microhouse cost Rachel Ross less than $8000 to build from recycled material. The quaint home resembles something from a fairytale, and Rachel now uses the home as a writer’s retreat. It’d be hard not to be inspired to live in a home like this.

02. House Balancing On A Rock

This house has been on a rock in Serbia for over 45 years. It was first conceptualized in 1968 by a group of young swimmers and finally erected as a one-room home the following year. Though it may not be an ideal location to live in, it’s a perfect resting spot for swimmers of the lake who need a place to rest comfortably.

03. Casa do Penedo

Located in the picturesque Fafe Mountains is the House of Stone. Built between four large boulders, this rustic home also has a swimming pool.

04. 11,000 Dollar Tiny Dream Home

Macy Miller is an architect from Idaho who wanted a place of her own–but hated the thought of a mortgage. For two years, Macy worked lovingly on this home which is also totally portable.

05. Dome Home

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After six weeks of tireless work on a $9,000 budget, Steve Areen built this dream home in Thailand. The home’s basic structure cost two-thirds of the total, and the remaining $3,000 was spent on extra details and furnishings. The house includes a lounging space, a hammock, and a private pond, and just about everything inside the dome is made of all-natural materials.

06. Floating House

Designed by architect Dymitr Malxew, Floating House is exactly what you’d expect—a floating house. The soothing mobile home is situated atop a buoyant platform that allows it to remain afloat while minimally impacting the environment and offering scenic views of its surroundings.

07. Tetsu Tree House, Japan

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Architect Terunobu Fujimori designed this fantasy house in Hokuto City, Japan.

08. Hobbit House

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Photographer Simon Dale spent $5,000 and 4 months to turn a plot of land in the woods into a hobbit home. It boasts some eco-friendly attributes, which include: scrap wood for flooring, lime plaster (instead of cement) for the walls, bales of straw on dry-stone walling, a compost toilet, solar panels for power, and a supply of water acquired through a nearby spring.

09. Shipping Container House In Woods

It may not look like a garbage heap from the outside, but this home proves how modern a recycled house can be. The interior is fantastic…

10. Modern Low-Impact House

Minimod is an innovative and sustainable alternative to traditional housing. It’s built off-site, meaning there’s no construction impact on the surrounding environment.

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Despite the environmentally friendly focus, the homes are exquisite.

11. Homemade Micro Housing

Constructed entirely from recycled materials, these caravans combine sustainability, comfort, and portability.

12. Mini-Double Loft Rock House

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This smaller house is far more environmentally friendly than the average home but still offers the opportunity to live in a multi-story home.

13. Modern Micro Cabin

This “treehouse” sits on stilts, 12 feet from the ground of downtown Los Angeles.

14. Transforming A-Frame House

This $1200 holiday home can be repacked and carried away at the end of a weekend in the woods.

15. Compact Cabin With Loft

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Surrounded by 52 acres of woodland and mountains, this cabin in the woods is dwarfed by its environment. It serves as a perfect escape from everyday life.

16. Japanese Forest House

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Brian Schulz built this homely cabin based on traditional Japanese architecture. Using local materials meant that this sustainable home could be built on a budget of $11,000.

17. Modular Micro Home

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Geoffrey Warner, a violinist and founder of weeHouse built this peaceful retreat for $60,000 in 2003. The large windows offer a fantastic view of the surrounding environment but keep in the heat during the winter.

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Andrew and Gabriella claim that living in a smaller space has bought them closer together on a relationship level.

18. Micro-House With Sky Loft

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While it looks like a greenhouse, this coastal home in California, built by Mickey Muennig, has a removable window that helps keep the place cool.

19. Fairytale Home

Dan Pauly, from Elk River, Minnesota, creates homes that look as if they are plucked from a magical forest.

20. Mobile Log Cabin

This mobile log cabin by Hans Liberg is located in Hilversum, Netherlands. Easily missed from the outside, the interior presents a minimalist, manufactured design that counters nature’s coarse, rustic aesthetic.

21. ESCAPE Cabin

ESCAPE cabins are modular portable homes. You can select how they look, the amount of space, and even more. They’re fully mobile and get delivered to you when they’re built.

22. Grain Silo Home

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These energy-efficient alternative homes can, on average, provide 1,500 to 2,000 square feet of living space. Some people like Don & Carolyn Riedlinger of Gilbert, Arizona, combined three-grain bins to create a silo mansion.

23. Residence In Between Trees

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Keisuke Kawaguchi of K2 Design built a series of living spaces that weave around the towering trees near Yonago City, Japan. The multi-room home is connected through short passageways and surrounded by nature’s beauty.

24. Extending Cabin House

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Designed by Cavco Park Home & Cabins of Phoenix, AZ, these beautiful homes are built on wheels and perfect for recreational use.

25. Solar-Powered Group Living

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Halo is a 645-square-foot group house designed by Team Sweden, a group of 25 students from Sweden’s Chalmers University. It is a solar-powered house constructed with renewable materials for the group to live an energy-efficient lifestyle. Solar cells line the living space’s exterior as solar energy-absorbing panels and an external roof over the structure.

26. Tiny Modern Home

After facing a large house’s cleaning and utility bills, Andrew and Gabriella Morrison built this mortgage-free house on wheels.

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27. Vertical Eco Home

This space-saving Japanese home is not only cheap enough to be built for under 15,000 USD, but it also leaves a much smaller eco-footprint when compared to traditional housing.

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