A Look Inside a Award Winning Tiny House

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This month Santa Clara University’s Tiny House got a big celebration at Santa Clara University where hundreds of students, faculty and staff, stopped by to congratulate the team for winning the SMUD Tiny House Competition, a new competition challenging collegiate teams to design and build net- zero, tiny solar houses. SCU beat out 8 other California universities and colleges, taking home the win for … Read More

Using a Composting Toilet: A Woman’s Perspective

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The #1 question I have been asked as a woman living in a tiny house is; How is using the composting toilet? followed by: Is it easy to use? Does it smell? How easy is cleaning and changing it? What kind do you have? Well I shall address all of the pros and cons of a composting toilet in my experience. This will … Read More

Buying A Tiny House Trailer

Who Is Tiny House Basics? We are Joshua and Shelley and we are Tiny House People with a extensive background in Tiny House Trailers and Tiny Houses. We design and sell the #1 Tiny House Trailers Available from Manufacturers that Have Been Building High Quality Trailers for over 30 Years. As Tiny House People ourselves our number one goal is … Read More

Tiny House Basics’ Tour Now On RelaxShacks’ YouTube Channel

Before Shelley and I left on our 6 week cross country road trip we finally filmed a informal tiny house tour of our very own Entertaining Abode for our good friends at RelaxShacks.com and now its finally live on their YouTube Channel. Check it out and let us know what you think!   Joshua and Shelley of Tiny House Basics … Read More

Setting Up And Leveling Out

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Whether you travel with your Tiny House or keep it parked for long periods of time there will always be a little bit of a setup process when you get to your new parking spot. Of course unpacking the inside is important but in this article we are are going to focus on setting up on the outside by leveling the tiny house using tools and … Read More

Find Land NOW For Your Tiny House!

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How Do You Start Finding Land For Your Tiny House? Before even considering life in a Tiny House we realized our first step was to downsize. In the process of doing this, we decided to simplify a number of things. The first being cable television. With streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon it’s not that hard to give up … Read More

Tiny House Living: Water Usage

How Much Water Does a Tiny House Actually Use? For this post we are going to take a deeper look into our Tiny House Water Usage. When we moved into our Tiny House In December 2014 we brought our old habits with us. Not to say these habits were bad but we were already adapting to living in a smaller space. … Read More

The Official Tiny House Basics Shell!!

Building a Tiny House is certainly a big project to undertake and we sought to help simplify that by offering Custom Tiny House Shells Built on our Tiny House Trailers. Many people love this solution of speeding up the process of going tiny by having the hardest work already taken care of. Ever since we first started offering the Tiny House Shells … Read More