
Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast
Conversations on how to plan, build, and live the tiny life. Ethan Waldman from thetinyhouse.net gives you the chance to get inside the heads of tiny house luminaries and every day tiny house dwellers so you can plan, build and live the tiny house life you’ve been dreaming of. Discover how you can create a tiny lifestyle that includes owning your own home, whether it’s a tiny house on wheels, van, or camper that you can take with you, or just a sweet tiny cabin in the mountains. Ethan built his own tiny house on wheels in 2012 and has been educating other tiny house hopefuls ever since. His flagship resource, Tiny House Decisions has been widely recommended by tiny house experts as a must-read how to guide to planning a successful tiny house. From tiny house heating, plumbing, and composting toilets, to building a tiny house for cheap, DIY techniques and more. Subscribe if you are ready to start YOUR tiny house journey.
Latest episodes

Jun 28, 2019 • 34min
Inside the Used Tiny House Market with Steven Harrell
Steven has been involved with the tiny house movement for nearly a decade and is the founder of Tiny House Listings, the world’s most-visited tiny house resource.The post Inside the Used Tiny House Market with Steven Harrell – #065 appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

Jun 21, 2019 • 59min
The Unexpected Benefits and Challenges of Living Tiny with Dee Williams
Dee built and moved into her first tiny house on wheels in 2004: Dee’s house, life and memoir The Big Tiny have been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CBS This Morning, Slate.com, Yahoo.com, Yes Magazine, and the National Building Museum, to name a few.The post The Unexpected Benefits and Challenges of Living Tiny with Dee Williams appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

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Jun 14, 2019 • 44min
Lloyd Kahn’s Advice on Building a Home, Reconsidering a Tiny House On Wheels, and Documenting 50 Years of DIY Dwellings
Lloyd Kahn is the former shelter editor of The Whole Earth Catalog and editor-in-chief of Shelter Publications. He has published a series of books on building including Shelter and Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter. The post Lloyd Kahn’s Advice on Building a Home, Reconsidering a Tiny House On Wheels, and Documenting 50 Years of DIY Dwellings appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

Jun 7, 2019 • 51min
How to Compost in the City Using Red Worms: A Guide to Vermicomposting with Erika Backberg
Composting in the city can be a challenge, especially if you don't have any yard to put a compost bin. That's where Vermicomposting comes in. With worms, you can have a completely self-contained compost system in any small space. The post How to Compost in the City Using Red Worms: A Guide to Vermicomposting with Erika Backberg appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

May 31, 2019 • 33min
Musician’s Modular Tiny House Combines Foundation and Trailer
Meet Asha Mevlana and her ‘Amplified’ Tiny House. Asha is an electric violinist for the Trans Siberian Orchestra. She has toured with Gnarls Barkley, Dee Snider of Twisted sister and performed regularly on the American Idol show. In 2016 she built her dream "Amplified" tiny house in Fayetteville Arkansas where she hosts tiny deck concerts. She eventually hopes to build a tiny house community for artists and musicians on the land behind her.The post Musician’s Modular Tiny House Combines Foundation and Trailer appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

May 24, 2019 • 42min
How to Prepare for a Full Time Mobile Lifestyle with Macy Miller
After over 40,000 miles of traveling in her homemade travel trailer with her two kids partner and a dog, Macy Miller has created an online course to help others learn how to live the mobile lifestyle. The post How to Prepare for a Full Time Mobile Lifestyle with Macy Miller appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

May 17, 2019 • 44min
How to Build with Aircrete: The Low Cost, Eco-Friendly Building Material of the Future with Hajjar Gibran
While building The Gibran Center, Hajjar developed a way of building domes that gained international recognition. He invented equipment and coined the word Aircrete while founding Domegaia to help answer the need for quality low cost housing.The post How to Build with Aircrete: The Low Cost, Eco-Friendly Building Material of the Future with Hajjar Gibran appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

May 10, 2019 • 37min
Living Off-Grid in Hawaii: Zeena’s DIY Gooseneck Tiny Home for Three
What do you do when you can't afford to buy a house in the place you grew up? My guest Zeena Fontanilla and her husband built a DIY Gooseneck Tiny House and now live completely off-grid and mortgage free.The post Living Off-Grid in Hawaii: Zeena’s DIY Gooseneck Tiny Home for Three – #058 appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

May 3, 2019 • 42min
Living the Vanlife for the Long Haul: How to Build a Sustainable Lifestyle with Kathleen Morton
Kathleen Morton travels and lives part time out of her 1987 Toyota van with her dog Peaches. Kathleen is the founder of Tiny House, Tiny Footprint, a community she created to share stories about those choosing alternative lifestyles, living more environmentally consciously, and spending more time in nature. She is also the co-founder of Vanlife Diaries, a social media and online platform that tells stories and connects vanlifers around the world. You might often find her backpacking in national forest, working on organic farms or climbing canyon walls in the desert. Her book, "Vanlife Diaries: Finding Freedom on the Open Road," comes out April 9 in bookstores. The book celebrates the nomadic lifestyle and community of vanlife through interviews, essential advice for living on the road, and more than 200 photos of tiny rolling homes.The post Living the Vanlife for the Long Haul: How to Build a Sustainable Lifestyle with Kathleen Morton – #057 appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!

Apr 26, 2019 • 25min
How to Survive a Vermont Winter in a Tiny House
Now that spring has finally come to Vermont, I thought it would be a good time to talk to you about what it's like to live in a tiny house in the winter in the northeastern United States, where temperatures can get as low as 30 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.In this episode, I'll teach you how to survive a Vermont winter in a tiny house. I cover both what you can do while you're building your tiny house to make it better in the cold, as well as what you can do after you move in.The post How to Survive a Vermont Winter in a Tiny House – #056 appeared first on The Tiny House.Send us a textSupport the showListen. Subscribe. Rate. Review. Apple Podcasts Spotify More... Follow Ethan. Mastodon Instagram Pinterest Facebook Want to say 'thank you' for the show? Buy me a coffee!