Tiny Houses On Wheels are now Legal in San Diego! This is the first city in the region outlining ordinances for tiny houses in backyards along with San Jose, Los Angeles, San Luis Obispo, and many others. This is a win-win across the board and makes it easier for our DIY tiny house builders to located parking spots in the … Read More
A Few Tips To Help Make Living Tiny Long Term Actually Doable
To make Tiny House Living practical for the long term, here is a few things we have learned over the years: Be practical in the space you need, size is subjective and everyone has different needs, wants and family sizes. Will you travel with it? The reality is that over 99% of our customers don’t travel with their tiny houses, … Read More
This Newlywed Couple Built a Timber Framed Tiny House With No Prior Building Experience
Meet Edwin and Clara, Their Tiny house build started in June of 2018 on a 24ft x 97.5in 14k Tiny House Basic’s Trailer with Drop Axles but the journey truly began in 2015. Living in San Diego at the time, both of them separately began daydreaming about tiny home living. Edwin was pursuing an Environmental Engineering degree from UCSD and Clara … Read More
The Problems With Drop Axles on a Tiny House
When building a tiny home on wheels there are several limitations you must adhere to if you do not want to go over the legal limit for road travel in the united states. These limitations are: Height, Width, Length and Weight. If you exceed any of these dimensions you will need to pull a Wide load or Oversized permit. The … Read More
The Tiny House Expo, Oct 11-13, 2019 in San Luis Obispo, Ca
Tiny House Basics was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the First Annual Tiny House Expo in San Luis Obispo! As the #1 source for Tiny House Trailers with over 450 custom tiny house trailers built each year we were excited to take part in this special event. many joined us and visited our booth where we were excited … Read More
Tiny Houses on Instagram: Real Life VS Curated Accounts
By Jessica Mokhiber Palmer When we first began our tiny house journey in 2016, we began with research – exhaustively scouring YouTube, checking out books on tiny living and downsizing from our local library, and then, as a lot of people do for inspiration, turned to Instagram. I remember thinking, “Whoa. We should have checked Instagram sooner.” There are so … Read More
One of a Kind Tiny House Retreat in the Woods!
“It was a dream conceived in two separate minds years before Chris (a New Yorker with over 20 years of fine carpentry experience) and Melanie (a rustic reclaimed woodworker for the past decade) would even meet or collaborate on their first project: What would it look like to squeeze all of the comfort and amenities of a full-sized luxury home … Read More
Living with Pets in a Tiny House
A lot of people have pets and love their beloved fur balls, us included! So when we decided to downsize and go tiny, we thought it would be a challenge to figure out how we were all going to work in a much smaller space. It seemed to be more of a mental challenge than a physical one. We were … Read More
Remodeling a Tiny House Kitchen
Take a tour of the Tiny House Basics’ Kitchen in our 374 sq/ft Tiny House On Wheels. After Living in our tiny house for the past 10+ years we have decided on a full kitchen remodel, in this tour we will show you how our kitchen is designed now and talk about the changes we have planned and why.