Tiny Houses

For its Luke tiny house, Backcountry Containers connects a large and a small shipping container together. This creates a surprisingly spacious interior layout that sleeps two in comfort and starts at $125,000.

Madeiguincho showcases its woodworking expertise with the Barca. Designed as a family vacation home, the timber tiny house features a compact but practical interior and runs off-the-grid with solar panels.

Whichever way you cut it, an 18-ft-long tiny house isn’t exactly palatial. However, thanks to some clever design choices, the Five Four does a good job of maximizing living space and even squeezes in two bedrooms.

Here's a novel take on tiny living, courtesy of Elsewhere Pods. Named the Beaufort Bushland Retreat, it takes the form of a glass house on wheels that offers amazing views of the surrounding countryside.

With its rugged exterior and compact footprint, Plume envisions its pint-sized Botanical Cabin as a lodge on wheels. The tiny house features a light-filled interior layout on one level that's suitable for up to two people.

Though the Nano Micro House isn't the smallest tiny house we've ever seen, it's pretty close – and at $22,900, it's also one of the cheapest. This example of extreme downsizing sleeps two and has a surprisingly functional interior.

Dragon Tiny Homes' new and improved Kemi model is a compact tiny house that draws on Scandinavian design. It features a space-saving interior that's well-suited to vacations and sleeps up to four people.

The Double Duo shipping container-based tiny house is not built from one container like we usually see, but two. The extra floorspace allows it to offer a roomy interior arranged around a large living area, as well as two bedrooms and bathrooms.

This interesting take on small living involved renovating a dilapidated 1940s railway car to transform it into an affordable tiny house for two that's well-suited for vacations or as a guest house.

The Bellbird is a compact, single-level tiny house suitable for up to two people. It encourages indoor/outdoor living via its porch and offers lots of optional upgrades, including off-the-grid functionality.

YouTuber Levi Kelly has created what he calls the world's smallest mobile tiny house – a remarkably functional micro-camper that somehow manages to squeeze in a bed, sink, toilet, and even a shower.

Custom Container Living has transformed a shipping container into an ultra-compact tiny house that squeezes a home for two into 160 sq ft. Though certainly basic, it also doesn't break the bank at just $39,900.

As its name suggests, the Library tiny house is focused around the owner's love of books. Designer Backcountry Tiny Homes also added a light-filled layout and some nice home comforts, including a bathtub, a standing loft, and a reading space.

What this tiny house lacks in portability, it makes up for with a remarkably spacious 400-sq-ft layout that isn't too far off the size of a small inner-city apartment, and includes a light-filled living area and large porch.

With its understated exterior and simple open layout for two, this recently completed tiny house doesn't offer some of the bells and whistles of larger and more luxurious models, but does come in at a reasonable price of just $61,250.