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12 Inspiring Tiny Houses

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With sizes as small as 80 square feet, tiny homes are any dwelling under 400 square feet. The small-house movement embraces homes under 1,000 square feet in size. Take a peek into these tiny houses designs.

Modern Minimalism

Metal covers this rectangular tiny house in big Texas. With it's sharp and modern look, you can accent it with plants to soften it up.

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Little yet Lofty

Vina Lustado's tiny house in Ojai, California, features a wooden loft bed accessible from a sliding ladder. Loft beds offer great space-saving layouts so that there's more room for the kitchen and living room areas.

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Little Log Cabin

This little log cabin in the woods features double doors. A tiny house can cost as little as $5,000 if you build it yourself or as much as $70,000 for ready-to-go manufactured models.

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Big Bus, Bitsy House

The Pacific Northwest is famous for its quirk, and its tiny house architecture is no exception. Jeremy and Mira Thompson converted a school bus into a tiny house on wheels to take their family anywhere their dreams pointed. Here in rural Washington, a garden of beautiful flowers surrounds this handmade home, where homesteading, farming and growing are daily activities.

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The Monopoly House

This tiny house in the Caribbean holds it own, sandwiched between two traditionally sized multi-story buildings. With a home like this, you can still live a minimalist and tiny-home lifestyle amidst larger homes.

Gimme Shelter

This wooden tiny house in the Great Basin region of the western United States is sheltered by trees for shade and privacy. What's great about tiny homes is that you can choose to position them in an ideal location.

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Baby Barn

This barn-inspired tiny home is nestled in an idyllic meadow of wildflowers. Tiny homes are easier to construct in remote places because they require less materials.

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Reinventing of the Wheel

This tiny house was wheeled right into its current location at a campsite in Winslow Memorial Park in South Freeport, Maine. And it can wheeled out just as easily to a new location.

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Almost-Glass Houses

This translucent tiny house in the Arizona desert within Taliesin West features a composite stone base. It even has an outside deck for lounging in the sun.

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Trailer Class

This trailer-home tiny house in Healdsburg, California, is tucked into the back yards of much larger homes. With the proper permitting, you could put a tiny house in your back yard and rent it out for residual income.

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Tiny House, Big Sky

This tiny house in the woods of the Pacific Northwest leaves lots of room for quality outdoor amid nature's splendor. When it's time to head indoors, skylights let a bit of the beauty in.

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Pocket-Sized Ranch

This tiny ranch belonging to John Wells is a modest outpost in the west Texas desert landscape. Tiny homes can work great in extreme landscapes because they consume fewer resources.

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