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The Kererū Tiny House is based on a detachable trailer, allowing its owners to permanently install it with relative ease. Though compact, its interior can actually sleep up to six – as long as a couple of guests don't mind roughing it on a sofa bed.

This simple but somewhat colorful-looking tiny house serves as the primary home for its owner and child. Though it sports compact dimensions, it has some notable features, including a bathtub, a netted play area, and a relatively spacious kitchen.

Design studio Autonomous has created an assemble yourself building kit designed to easily pop up in the backyard. The Pod can be used as an outdoor office space, games room, gym, art studio or guest room and can be assembled in just one day.

New Frontier Design's latest tiny house is named the Luna. The towable home measures just 25 ft in length and provides a compact interior layout that puts the focus on the view with floor-to-ceiling glazing at one end.

Backcountry Hut Company (BHC) has unveiled a new model dubbed the Catskills Cabin. The compact dwelling is inspired by traditional alpine cabin design, and its entire exterior shell only took 10 days to fully install.

Commissioned by a couple who wanted space for themselves, plus a little extra in case their family grows, Baluchon created a compact tiny house centered around a large kitchen that also has a pair of bedrooms joined by a net.

This year has been a bumper one for downsizing and, as 2022 fast approaches, we've chosen a selection of the most interesting, innovative, and well-designed examples of small living we've seen throughout the year.

This year's winner of the prestigious RIBA House of the Year competition has been announced. The award has gone to Alison Brooks Architects for its sympathetic work renovating and extending a stone farmhouse in Gloucestershire, England.

Hired to design a vacation home in an avocado field while leaving the field itself intact, Francisco Pardo Arquitecto decided on the radical plan of burying it. The resulting Avocado House blends into the landscape so well that it's barely visible.

Redukt has created a compact tiny house that opens up to the outside via large glazed doors installed on both sides of the home. It also runs off-the-grid and has a well thought-out interior layout that makes the most of the limited space available.

A lot of North American tiny houses are huge luxurious models. However, this off-grid tiny house by We Shelter People harkens back to the tiny house movement's roots by keeping things small and simple – and relatively affordable too.

How do you squeeze a bedroom into a compact tiny house, while still maintaining a well-proportioned living space? For its latest model, Build Tiny chose to not to bother, and instead equipped the off-grid dwelling with a space-saving elevating bed.