Your Questions Answered: How to Find Parking and a Place to Call Home
0Have you labored over the design of your dream tiny house for years, but still have no idea where you’ll park? What will the place you call home look like, and who will be part of it? Do you want peace, quiet, and country views [...]
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Back to Basics: Why Tiny Houses?
Do you struggle to explain the allure of a tiny house to your friends and family? Or maybe they like the cute pictures, but can’t understand why you’d actually want to LIVE in one, or let one park on your property? A couple of recent [...]
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Lina Menard on PAD’s April Design Workshop and Tiny House Momentum
“The folks who attend tiny house workshops are wonderful people. They’re collaborative and intentional. They’re open-minded and open-hearted. They tackle big questions about needs and wants. They carefully consider what makes a place feel like home. I’ve come to expect that of tiny house lovers. [...]
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Dee’s Field Report from the Casa Pequena Tiny House Building Workshop!
Over the years I’ve built go-carts, chicken coops, backyard saunas, lumpy cat-scratch towers and tiny houses. Building is one of my favorite things to do in the world, but last weekend’s Casa Pequena Tiny House Building Workshop stood out as one of the coolest builds [...]
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Your Questions Answered: Trailer Talk
At PAD, we get a lot of questions about trailers – the foundation of a little house. Whether you’re planning to buy a new or used trailer, consider the following. The first time you pull your tiny house out of the driveway, you’ll be glad [...]
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FIRST BUILD IT TINY WORKSHOP OF THE SEASON!
We are super excited to let you know about our upcoming (first of the season!) hands-on tiny house construction workshop: La Casa Pequena! During this 2-day intensive building workshop you will construct the shell of a tiny house, including building the floor frame, installing insulation, [...]
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Guest Post: Lina Menard on Our February Workshop
Tiny House Workshop Weekend: It was a pleasure to be part of the Portland Alternative Dwellings Tiny House Workshop this weekend, along with Derin of UrbaNest, Brittany of Bayside Bungalow, and Chris and Melissa Tack of Tiny Tack House. Tiny house enthusiasts from around Oregon [...]
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February Tiny House Design Workshop Still Open!
Our February 23 and 24th workshop is still open for registration. We have a small group, which is a great time to sign up as you will get more attention on your situation, more time to meet others, and better chance to get all your [...]
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Looking for a place to park your tiny house in SE Portland?
I just got this note from Joanne in SE Portland and she is looking to share her land in SE Portland with a tiny houser…….. I have .23 acres in the SE neighborhood of Mt. Scott-Arleta and am looking to rent space to a tiny [...]
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Sightline Daily’s look at Tiny House Living
Living Large in Small Houses A photoessay on small houses and the people who love them. Alyse Nelson on December 20, 2012 at 8:30 am My husband and I think we’ve found a way to pay off our mortgage early, without taking on an extra [...]
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