Tiny Houses

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.

When you're dealing with the kind of small living space offered by a tiny house, maximizing glazing can really help it feel less cramped. Baluchon embraced this approach with its Ia Orana build, which really opens up the home to light and views.

Straight out of the smart, sustainable suburbs of an extraterrestrial future, the Nestron Cube Two X is a step toward the next generation of modular living. It has extra space and big views (of Earth, Mars or elsewhere) out large windows and skylights.

Norwegian architectural studio Norske Mikrohus, specializing in tiny homes on wheels, has launched its latest model. The 16-sq-m Rast comfortably accommodates up to four adults and is light enough to travel on the road with a standard SUV.

We associate Minimaliste with spacious homes that can withstand extremes in hot and cold weather. With the Nomad, the firm has retained the same hardy four-season tiny house design, but it's offered in a smaller and easier to tow model.

Baluchon goes to great efforts to maximize living space with its models – and this is the case with its recently completed Farniente too. It features a relatively spacious kitchen, a movie projector with a pull-down screen, and a small porch area.

Though it has a total length of just 7.2 m, the River Bank tiny house packs quite a lot of features into its compact frame. It includes movable furniture, lots of storage space, a relatively well-proportioned kitchen, and an upstairs home office.

New Zealand-based Build Tiny's latest model is one of its smallest to date. Named Autumn, the tiny house measures a total of just 6 m in length, and its compact interior boosts living space with a neat little raised net area.

Portuguese woodworking studio Madeiguincho was inspired to turn its hand to tiny house design. The latest result is the Ursa, which has a compact space-saving interior and runs off-the-grid with solar panels and a rainwater capture system.

Minimaliste's latest iteration of its Noyer tiny house, the Noyer XL V2, retains the superb all-weather performance of its predecessors, while offering an even more spacious interior that contains lots of storage space.