Lina's Gorgeous Little 'Lucky Penny' House In Portland...

Lina Menard lives in her very cute, wonderfully wooden, little one hundred square foot 'Lucky Penny' house in a Tiny House Community in Portland Oregon.
This warm and inviting little home is not only a visual delight. Have a look here at Lloyd's Shelter Blog, it's full of good ideas too...

Quirky Micro House Designer And Artist Jay Nelson Builds A Gorgeous 200 Square Foot Rustic House In Hawaii...

Quirky and fun designer and artist Jay Nelson is well known for his amazing creative and functional micro homes on wheels, up trees
and on the water.
Much of his work has been featured in Lloyd Kahn's Tiny Houses Book and The Shelter Blog, Tiny House Talk and other specialist on-line publications as well as here at TFT.
The thirty four year old Jay who lives in San Francisco has just completed this gorgeous wooden two hundred square foot house at Haena on Hawaii's Kauai Island.
This tiny rustic house is BIG and beautiful...

What Could Be A Better Dwelling Than A Little Rustic One Surrounded By Nature...

It was a matter of seizing the moment.
I've been meaning to post some more delightful images of huts, cabins, shelters and houses from Cabin Porn for ages.
Now's the moment and today's the day.
You can enjoy more here...

The Very Strange Tiny Truffle House Is A Home In A Stone...

This is a wonderfully simple concept.
And a great story about how the Spanish Architects Ensamble Studio built a house using hay bales and concrete and a calf called Pauline.
This little house, now above ground, started life a bit like a Hobbit House.
First they created a hole in the ground, then they basically built a shape made from hay bales surrounded by a concrete mass. They left the whole thing to weather for awhile then after removing the surrounding soil, they cut off the end facing the wonderful view of the ocean and invited Pauline the calf to come for dinner. And breakfast. And lunch and dinner breakfast and lunch again until a year later, she'd eaten out the inside of the tiny house and left home a healthy six hundred and sixty pound cow.
There's a video here and there are more great images of the build process and the finished Truffle here...
If there is such a thing as a finished Truffle...

The Flying Tortoise Talks Tiny House Living On Television New Zealand Tonight...

Well known TV personality and one of the three hosts for TVNZ's new Seven Sharp programme, Alison Mau, came to Tokerau Beach the other day to film an interview with me for a programme about living large in small spaces.
And amongst other things, downsizing - the big trend in living smaller, self sufficiency, and how to live well on a small income.
It was a fun day with The Far North turning on stunning weather for Ali, Paul the shows producer and Richard the sound recorder and cameraman.
They tell me the programme's looking great and it will go to air at seven sharp tonight.
I've got my fingers crossed that the segment will be more than a gratuitous look at the subject and give the topic some decent airtime.
The programmes job is of course to entertain, inform and inspire.
It's been unkindly slated by reviewers and armchair critics so I hope they produce something better than they have over the first two days of the programmes life.
You're now able to view it by going here.
It's very brief so try not to blink...