Micro-House

Measuring just 21.7 ft long, this tiny house offers a well-designed and open interior layout that sleeps two in comfort, plus guests. It can also be outfitted with full off-the-grid functionality.

Tiny house builders are always looking to increase living space wherever possible. This neat model takes a novel approach by offering an unusual interior layout that's topped by a rooftop terrace with seating and a pergola.

The Lady Bird tiny house combines a colorful exterior with a well-designed interior. Despite its compact size, it fits a downstairs master bedroom and a loft, as well as a living room/home office space and a well-stocked kitchen.

Downsizing for a single person is enough of a challenge, but it's even harder to pull off if you have a family. Despite its length of 23.7 ft, the Joely tiny house tackles this issue by squeezing three bedrooms into its compact footprint.

With its length of 30 ft and single-story layout, Häuslein's Settler tiny house doesn't appear to offer a whole lot of interior space. However, it features a clever slide-out component that boosts the living space within.

Timbercraft Tiny Homes has carved out a real niche for itself with luxurious cottage-like models. Its latest towable home continues this style and provides a remarkably spacious and comfortable interior suitable for a family.

This compact tiny house takes a carefully considered approach to downsizing. Though it only has a modest length of 22 ft, it maximizes floorspace with a flexible layout that includes stowing the bed within a wall.

In a quest to offer portability while maximizing floorspace, we've seen tiny houses embrace all kinds of weird and wonderful ideas. This extraordinary example takes the novel approach of inflating its upper section to sleep six people.

There are large tiny houses and then there's the Dogwood. This enormous residence makes a mockery of the word tiny and is easily the biggest example of small living we've seen to date, with a floorspace of 750 sq ft.

The TinyPlex is an unusually large towable dwelling. It consists of not just one but two separate homes, each of which measures 200 sq ft and has an open and light-filled layout that sleeps up to two people.

The Cortes, by Rover Tiny Homes, is a spacious residence with two downstairs bedrooms and a large living room. Measuring 38 ft in length, it expands its considerable floorspace even further with three slide-out sections.

The Cardabelle tiny house offers a contemporary take on downsizing that balances space constraints and comfort to allow two people to embrace full-time life on wheels, despite its modest length of just 20 ft.