For thousands of years, people have found shelter in tiny houses including yurts. Ancient Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus described the first yurts as appearing between 600 BC and AD 300 in Central Asia. Nomadic herders took refuge in the felt-covered tents on steppes, mountains and in the desert. Today, tiny houses are in vogue […]

An unusual real estate trend is gaining steam across the country, flying in the face of long-held assumptions about what it means to live well. The tiny house movement advocates living in very small houses. Tiny homes are generally defined as those less than 900 square feet in size, although most tiny homes are just […]

What do Jimmy Hendrix and Henry Thoreau have in common? They were both fans of tiny homes. Hendrix opted to stay in a cottage rather than a luxury hotel in Maui in the 1970s. A century and a half prior, Thoreau moved into a 10’ by 15’ cottage in Walden Woods. Today, many Americans are […]