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Resources
American Tiny House Association
The mission of the American Tiny House Association is to promote tiny house as a viable, formally acceptable dwelling option for a wide variety of people. The goal is to support tiny house enthusiasts who are seeking creative and affordable housing as a part of a more sustainable and self-reliant lifestyle. https://americantinyhouseassociation.org/
Tiny House Industry Association
The Tiny Home Industry Association (THIA) primarily focuses on the tiny home building and safety standards, as well as promoting best practices to benefit the industry, consumers and municipalities to support acceptance as permissible and permanent housing. https://tinyhomeindustryassociation.org/
Tiny House Expedition
Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons, documentary filmmakers, educators and advocates on an extraordinary "Journey with a Purpose" with their DIY home on wheels. As so-founders of Tiny House Expedition, they seek to inspire others to redefine home and rethink housing through thought-provoking storytelling, resource sharing, and educational events. They have the world's most traveled tiny house on wheels, www.tinyhouseexpedition.com
Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast
Join Ethan Waldman each week as he interviews tiny house luminaries and every day tiny house dwellers. Each week you'll hear about various topics in a podcast that's not only entertaining but educational. www.thetinyhouse.net
Living Tiny Legally
From the folks that bring you Tiny House Expedition, Living Tiny Legally explores the potential benefits tiny houses can bring to a community, the legal obstacles and how these are being overcome in a growing number of cities in model building codes. This educational documentary series provides an in-depth, inside look into how policy makers from all over the country, with grassroots supporters, are making legal tiny housing and legal tiny house communities, a reality.. www.tinyhouseexpedition.com
www.SearchTinyHouseVillages.com
The SearchTinyHomeVillages website focuses on communities to solve the biggest hurdle facing the tiny house movement - Where to park it? It offers an extensive database coupled with a powerful search engine that allows people to find their ideal Tiny House community. www.searchtinyhousevillages.com
Tiny House Giant Journey
Jenna at Tiny House Giant Journey visits tiny homes and tiny home villages all across the United States.
DFW Tiny House Community
Local North Texas tiny house community website with a goal of providing information and resources needed to transition and maintain a tiny lifestyle within the Dallas / Fort Worth Area.
Go Tiny TV
Tiny Home expert Lindsay Wood brings lots of info and stories about tiny homes and tiny living.
https://www.youtube.com/@GOTINYTV
More resources
Planning / building / maintaining your tiny house
Are you interested in building your own tiny house? Maybe you’re not sure if you want to, or maybe you want to buy a shell and finish it yourself? These resources will help you ask the right questions and learn more about the whole process.
- Tiny House Designing, Building, and Living by Gabriella and Andrew Morrison (book)
- Go House Go by PAD / Dee Williams (book)
- Shockingly Simple Electrical by Ryan Mitchell (book)
- Tiny House Design and Construction Guide by Dan Louche (book)
- Tiny House Decisions by Ethan Waldman (book)
- The how to guide to building a tiny house by TinyHouseBuild
- Tiny Nest Project (YouTube/DVD)
Tiny lifestyle/inspiration
Are you interested in living tiny, but want to know more about what the day-to-day experience is like? You can learn more about it through these books, videos, and TV shows.
- The Big Tiny Dee Williams (book)
- The Small House Book Jay Shafer (book)
- Tiny House Magazine by Kent Griswold (magazine)
- Turning Tiny by Darin Zaruba (book)
- TINY: A story about living small (video)
- Small is Beautiful (video)
- Kirsten Dirksen's "Tiny Homes" playlist (video)
- Living Small - Tiny House Documentary (video)
- We the Tiny House People (video)
- Microtopia (video)
- Tiny House Nation (TV)
- Tiny House Hunters (TV)
- Tiny House Hunting (TV)
- Tiny House, Big Living (TV)
- Tiny House Builders (TV)
- Project 333 (wardrobe decluttering and organization workshop)
Tiny homes and city acceptance
Are you interested in learning more about the process of implementing codes that make living tiny legal? Check out the videos and book below for information on how other cities are addressing it, and how you can research the ordinances in your own city.
- IRC 2018 Appendix Q
- Living Tiny Legally by Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons
- Cracking the Code by Ryan Mitchell
Podcasts
These podcasts have a little bit of everything, including lifestyle and building advice! They’re all on hiatus, but the previous episodes are still available for listening.
Workshops
If you’re interested in guided learning, workshops provide a great learning experience! Research the contents of each workshop before signing up to make sure it will cover what you expect to learn. Some are hands-on, some are lecture-only.
- Tiny House Build (digital workshop)
- Relaxshacks
- Yestermorrow Design/Build School
- Tiny Home Builders
- Habitat for Humanity (find your local chapter to volunteer on a build site)
Online communities
Groups on the internet are a wealth of information. Check out the posts in the group, and use the search feature to find past conversations related to what you’d like to learn more about!
- Tiny House People (Facebook group)
- Tiny House Concepts (Facebook group)
- Texas Tiny House (Facebook group)
- Tiny House Community (Facebook group)
- DFW Tiny House Community (Facebook group local to Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas residents)
- DFW Tiny House Enthusiasts (Meetup.com group local to Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas residents)
- DFWTiny.com (Website for the Dallas/Fort Worth area)
Events
One of the best ways of learning what your preferences for tiny homes is to step inside a lot of them. The quickest opportunity to do so is to visit a tiny house festival. They feature many varieties of tiny homes on trailers, and also sometimes include RVs, buses, and other small dwellings.
- United Tiny House Association (CA, FL, GA)
- People’s Tiny House Festival (CO)
Insurance
If you need insurance to cover your tiny home, these businesses have covered them in the past. You’ll need to provide them information about your tiny house so they can determine if their insurance product is a good fit.
Builders/Fabricators/Retailers
Are you looking for a builder to construct all or part of your tiny house? Here are a few builders and suppliers whose work is impressive! Please do your research, and get referrals from past customers before agreeing to any work!
· American Tiny House (Longview, TX)
· Decathlon Tiny Homes (Sachse, TX)
· Indigo River Tiny Homes (Garland, TX)
· Little Tiny Homes of Texas (Conroe, TX)
· Minimaliste Houses (Quebec, Canada)
· Rewild Homes (Vancouver Island, Canada)
· Shelterwise (Portland, OR)
· Short Stax Tiny Homes (Lake Dallas, Texas)
· Tiny Heirloom (Portland, OR)
· Wind River Tiny Homes (Chattanooga, TN)