S1E28 On Legacy, Cats, Horror Stories And Success With Tiny House Builder Derin Williams

Tiny House star and builder Derin Williams has been building Tiny Houses for some time. Famous for his super-high-end design and construction, Derin recently has been host of Tiny House Hunting and featured in nearly every tiny Tiny House publication. His company Shelterwise, a specialty Design-Build firm helping people create energy-saving and simplified living spaces, is famous for building custom tiny homes. But no more. Shelterwise is undergoing a transformation. Derin joined us to talk about his and his company’s future, his grandma and traveling to Africa reset himself.

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S1E27 Hobbits, Hawaii and Living Richly with Tiny House Builder Kristie Wolfe

An extra crazy episode this week. Kristie Wolfe is on fire to explore all expressions of Tiny Houses. Beginning with her first tiny house in Idaho, she then built a Tiny Tree House in Hawaii even Thurston Howell, III would love. Next Kristie built a Hobbit Hole in Washington State. Happy with that work, she now plans to build an entire Hobbit community in the same location. An entrepreneur, proud Idahoan, and quite the builder, Kristie began her life poor with six siblings. Today, she’s living richly. Her income from her Tiny House enterprises are all she needs for a comfortable living she loves.

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S1E26 Blasting Through the Past with Architect and Tiny House Grandfather, Lester Walker

Lester Walker was into tiny houses before they were even called that. While humans were being blasted into space in tiny capsules, he wondered about similar spaces on land for living in. Then, 20 years later, Lester won a competition to design a 1500 square foot house. From there his passion caught fire. He wondered “why we can’t build smaller?”...for all kinds of reasons. He wrote a book, then another. Lester, who could be considered the grandfather of tiny houses, today runs his successful architecture firm with his son Jess. On this episode we blast through Lester’s love of tiny houses and how for a time they captivated his attention.

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S1E25 We’re “On the Road” With Brittany Yunker’s Bayside Bungalow

This week Tiny House Podcast interviews Brittany Yunker, owner of the Bayside Bungalow. Brittany’s tiny house was one of the first available for rent in the early years of the tiny house movement. As a result, many people ended up trying out Brittany’s tiny house to see if such a lifestyle would be right for them. Today, Brittany lives in a 900 square foot house with her boyfriend and enjoys sharing her tiny house with her renters. We take you behind the scenes of one of the first commercial tiny houses.

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S1E24 - Turning Traditional Homes Into Money With Rachel Ginis

Owner of the nonprofit Lilypad Homes, Rachel is on a mission. An anthropologist, building contractor and designer, Rachel is pioneering at both the policy level and on the ground, empowering homeowners with more income by turning their spare rooms into separate rental units. Whether you call them Accessory Dwelling Units, Junior Units or Junior Mints, Rachel is on the move. And her moves are making serious waves, in Marin county for now and soon around the US.

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#E75 Tiny House Swoon, Three Boobs and a Mule with Steven Harrell

Today we chat with Tiny House Swoon owner, Steven Harrell (check this spelling). Steven created Swoon after a dream inspired him. This was after he had already created several other tiny house websites, including tinyhouselistings.com and tinyhousevacations.com. Obviously Steven has tiny houses flowing in his veins. But it hadn't always been that way. Before tiny houses he was a successful entrepreneur living the high life. That high life ending abruptly was a good thing because it lead to Steven finding his passion.

Today Steven lives on a North Carolinian island, enjoying a life purpose built around all things tiny.

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S1E23 - Bumming Around And Hardly Working With Andrew Morrison & Gabriella Stupakoff

Owners and designers of arguably the most recognized tiny house in the world, Andrew and his wife of 18 years Gabriella have built a tiny house niche for themselves. Having licensed their hOMe design to a commercial builder, the couple spends their lives on their five acre tiny house compound debt-free planning tiny house workshops and enjoying their debt-free life in a tiny house, a cabin for their daughter, a cabin for their son and a treehouse all on five acres in Ashland, Oregon. Eat your heart out Thoreau!

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S1E22 Go Where the Love Is with Don Niemeyer of Story Coffee Company

This week Tiny House Podcast visits Don Neimeyer and his company Story Coffee Company, likely the only coffee company in a Tiny House. Don has a passion for people that flows through another passion he has for coffee. Unlike many souls on the planet, Don has found a unique way of marrying his passions - serving people delicious, top flight coffee, and tiny houses. This is the story of Story Coffee Company, a story of a family inspired to live their dream, their way, in style, in tiny spaces.

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S1E21 - Derek Diedricksen Raps on Shacks, Workshops, and the Past

This week our guest is Derek “Deek” Diedricksen creator of Relax Shacks, author, crazy man and self-admitted addict for building everything tiny. A successful icon of the tiny house movement, you could say Deek is the OG (Original Gansta) of the tiny house movement: he’s been building his creations since the early 80s!

Derek’s a true artist. Not content to constrain what he does to tiny houses, his self-acknowledged ADD has kept him in the flow, building all kinds of creations, from small shacks, to full-on tree houses. Like all our shows, you’re going to love this one. Stick with us and hear “Deek” throw out a few rap lyrics too. Then, check out our show notes at tinyhousepodcast.com!

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S1E20 - Rahul Salazar’s Quixote Village Has No Interest In Windmills

Former Parole Officer turned Program Manager Rahul Salazar runs Quixote Village, a unique permanent resident facility for the homeless. What makes the village unique is residents live in 30 tiny houses. Quixote Village grew from the vision of a self-governing community of homeless adults in Olympia, Washington. In addition to the 30 tiny houses, Quixote village comprises a large vegetable garden and a community building that contains showers, laundry facilities, a communal kitchen and living and dining space. Village residents moved into the Tiny House community from “Camp Quixote” a tent community nearby.

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S1E19 - Sewer Pipe Dreams: Andreas Strauss Creates Successful hotel From Sewer Pipe

Ever considered living in a sewer pipe? After this episode you will. In this episode we speak with the creator behind the word’s first hotel where the rooms are fashioned from nine-ton (brand new) city sewer pipes. Affectionately called The Dasparkhotel, the hotel began as an hospitality experimental brainstorm of Andreas Strauss our guest on this show. An industrial designer and iconoclast, Andreas’ unique ideas and values fit perfectly with the Tiny House movement.

Fast forward 12 years later, his unlikely experiment today draws people from all over Europe to see - and stay in - these tiny marvels. Would you spend three days living in a sewer pipe? We didn’t think so either. That is, not until we feasted our eyes on Dasparkhotel. Tiny House Podcast goes international in this episode! Take a listen.

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S1E18 - Get Your Gizzard and Flap your Jacks. We’re On the Road and Totally Shameless With Tiny House Builder Eric Bohne

The Firebird not your ordinary tiny house. Eric Bohne is not your ordinary tiny house builder. More of an engineering artist, tinkerer and vastly skilled builder, Eric has created an unusual but highly functional design for a tiny house. We’re on the road (really just 10 miles from the THP studio) visiting the Firebird and broadcasting...or podcasting...from it’s creative innards. Awesome pics in the show notes. Take a listen

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S1E17 A Tiny House and a Barrel of Monkeys (and Other Zaniness)

Today Tiny House Podcast hosts Michelle, Mark and Perry chat with Trevor Gay and Mary Benasutti. They live in a tiny house located in a unique situation: on a rescued animal farm. With monkeys, raccoons, peacock, horses, opossum and a menagerie of cats, the show goes off the rails….fast!

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S1E16 - Abel Zimmerman Builds The Most Beautiful Tiny Houses

Carpenter, nerd, savant and maker of unquestionably the most beautiful and artistic tiny houses in the world, Abel Zimmerman and his crew at Zyl Vardos are the cream of the tiny house builder crop. Abel’s tiny houses look like blends of fortune cookies, boats and artistic flair, as unforgettable as they are eclectic. We snagged Abel for an hour to talk about where his inspiration comes from, how he became a tiny house builder and why, what does the future hold and what his family really thinks about making a living building art with his bare hands. Join us.

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S1E15 - Lina Menard Has a Secret

Unassuming and talented, Lina Menard is best known for workshops and consulting she offers people bitten by the tiny house bug. But enough of that! In this episode we break a secret Lina’s been hiding while we plumb the sexy depths of tiny house commune living. If you ever met Lina in person, here’s the side of her you never thought you’d see. Give this one a listen.

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S1E14 - Crispy Tiny House with Gary Bute of Tiny House Systems

Gary Bute is a man on a tiny house mission.. He's on a personal mission to get all tiny housers to really think about S-A-F-E-T-Y when building that lovable little structure. Electric, gas, propane...many potentially dangerous things can lurk around each tiny corner. Builder...beware.  It’s a spookie, mookie, mirthy Halloween episode of Tiny House Podcast. Download it now, if you dare!

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S1E13 - Goosenecks, Mini Me’s and Macy Miller!

S1E13 - Goosenecks, Mini Me’s and Macy Miller!

We corner the one, the only Macy Miller, pregnant no less, as she waxes philosophically on tiny houses, her experience with fame, approaching tiny houses “the right way” and what it’s like living in the fishbowl that is her life of fame. The Tiny House Podcast hosts find themselves at a loss of words, humbled before Macy’s expertise, her dedication to family, design, living authentically and listening to her dreams. Listen in. We think you’ll love it.

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S1E12 - Tiny House Hangover

Michell riffs on her weekend experience which included the Tiny House Conference in Portland, our Unconference and a whole lotta drinking.

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S1E11 - Andrew Odom - Home is a Pony

Our funniest show to date, Andrew brings his southern humor in full force, livening Tiny House Podcast with his life story, the story of his pony, potato chips, and more. Gotta listen to this one. Be prepared to laugh. We’re on the road with the founder of Tiny House r(E)volution!

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S1E10 - Searching for the Tiny House Podcast Theme Song

We’re lifting our skirt on this episode. While Michelle was enjoying the jamboree, Mark and Perry were back at the studio, trying to find some music for this crazy show. We were successful, of course.

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S1E9 - Portland Alternative Dwellings (PAD) founders Dee Williams & Joan Grimm

Tiny Housers all know Dee and Joan. And if you don’t, you should you Tiny House bastards. This week we corralled these two pioneers and got the long and the short, the high and the low, the skinny and the fat on their perspective of the movement, codes and what they think the future of Tiny House living is.

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S1E8 - Who Are You? Who the F#ck Are You?

Perry, Mark and Michelle talk about what they like about Tiny Houses. Michelle talks about why her Tiny House works for her, then gets elitist towards super-primitive Tiny House builders. Mark talks about why there’s no way he could live in a Tiny House.

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S1E7 Batman Thoreau Hobo Artist Dan Price Live In A Literal Hole In The Ground

You don’t want to miss this episode. Dan Price has an amazing story that puts Thoreau’s Walden Pond to shame. In the last 25 years, Dan, the “Hobo Artist” has lived in a Teepee, in a hobbit hole, rode a recumbent bike from Oregon to Florida, hopped freight cars, and, today, lives in an eight foot circle underground, eats wild edibles, and enjoys the most rustic sauna experience, which he built on his own. It doesn’t get any better than this.

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S1E6 - Epic Tiny House Mixer Slumgullion

Mark and Michelle share their experience with the Big Tiny House Conference and the Tiny House mixer, Michelle gets intimate with a family of four Tiny House visitors and realizes she’s not the extrovert she thought she was!

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