Tiny House Podcast

Owners and designers of arguably the most recognized tiny house in the world, Andrew and his wife of 18 years Gabriella have built a tiny house niche for themselves. Having licensed their hOMe design to a commercial builder, the couple spends their lives on their five acre tiny house compound debt-free planning tiny house workshops and enjoying their debt-free life in a tiny house, a cabin for their daughter, a cabin for their son and a treehouse all on five acres in Ashland, Oregon. Eat your heart out Thoreau!

This week Tiny House Podcast visits Don Neimeyer and his company Story Coffee Company, likely the only coffee company in a Tiny House. Don has a passion for people that flows through another passion he has for coffee. Unlike many souls on the planet, Don has found a unique way of marrying his passions - serving people delicious, top flight coffee, and tiny houses. This is the story of Story Coffee Company, a story of a family inspired to live their dream, their way, in style, in tiny spaces.

This week our guest is Derek “Deek” Diedricksen creator of Relax Shacks, author, crazy man and self-admitted addict for building everything tiny. A successful icon of the tiny house movement, you could say Deek is the OG (Original Gansta) of the tiny house movement: he’s been building his creations since the early 80s!

Derek’s a true artist. Not content to constrain what he does to tiny houses, his self-acknowledged ADD has kept him in the flow, building all kinds of creations, from small shacks, to full-on tree houses. Like all our shows, you’re going to love this one. Stick with us and hear “Deek” throw out a few rap lyrics too. Then, check out our show notes at tinyhousepodcast.com!

Former Parole Officer turned Program Manager Rahul Salazar runs Quixote Village, a unique permanent resident facility for the homeless. What makes the village unique is residents live in 30 tiny houses. Quixote Village grew from the vision of a self-governing community of homeless adults in Olympia, Washington. In addition to the 30 tiny houses, Quixote village comprises a large vegetable garden and a community building that contains showers, laundry facilities, a communal kitchen and living and dining space. Village residents moved into the Tiny House community from "Camp Quixote” a tent community nearby.

Ever considered living in a sewer pipe? After this episode you will. In this episode we speak with the creator behind the word’s first hotel where the rooms are fashioned from nine-ton (brand new) city sewer pipes. Affectionately called dasparkhotel, the hotel began as an hospitality experimental brainstorm of Andreas Strauss our guest on this show. An industrial designer and iconoclast, Andreas’ unique ideas and values fit perfectly with the Tiny House movement.

Fast forward 12 years later, his unlikely experiment today draws people from all over Europe to see - and stay in - these tiny marvels. Would you spend three days living in a sewer pipe? We didn’t think so either. That is, not until we feasted our eyes on dasparkhotel. Tiny House Podcast goes international in this episode! Take a listen.

The Firebird not your ordinary tiny house. Eric Bohne is not your ordinary tiny house builder. More of an engineering artist, tinkerer and vastly skilled builder, Eric has created an unusual but highly functional design for a tiny house. We’re on the road (really just 10 miles from the THP studio) visiting the Firebird and broadcasting...or podcasting...from it’s creative innards. Awesome pics in the show notes. Take a listen

Today Tiny House Podcast hosts Michelle, Mark and Perry chat with Trevor Gay and Mary Benasutti from Heart Of It All. They live in a tiny house located in a unique situation: on a rescued animal farm. With monkeys, raccoons, peacock, horses, opossum and a menagerie of cats, the show goes off the rails….fast!

Carpenter, nerd, savant and maker of unquestionably the most beautiful and artistic tiny houses in the world, Abel Zimmerman and his crew at Zyl Vardos are the cream of the tiny house builder crop. Abel’s tiny houses look like blends of fortune cookies, boats and artistic flair, as unforgettable as they are eclectic. We snagged Abel for an hour to talk about where his inspiration comes from, how he became a tiny house builder and why, what does the future hold and what his family really thinks about making a living building art with his bare hands. Join us.

Unassuming and talented, Lina Menard is best known for workshops and consulting she offers people bitten by the tiny house bug. But enough of that! In this episode we break a secret Lina’s been hiding while we plumb the sexy depths of tiny house commune living. If you ever met Lina in person, here’s the side of her you never thought you’d see. Give this one a listen.

Gary Bute is a man on a tiny house mission.. He's on a personal mission to get all tiny housers to really think about S-A-F-E-T-Y when building that lovable little structure. Electric, gas, propane...many potentially dangerous things can lurk around each tiny corner. Builder...beware.  It’s a spookie, mookie, mirthy Halloween episode of Tiny House Podcast. Download it now, if you dare!