Parenting and running a business while living tiny and traveling full-time is no easy task, but today&apos;s guest, Erin Carey, is doing it all. Erin lives on a boat with her family and also runs her own PR agency, a business she started after making this transition to living tiny. In this interview, we&apos;re going to hear her and her family&apos;s story, learn about the headspace and some of the things Erin did to stay motivated for making this big transition. Erin also tells us how she is able to stay productive and work from a tiny space when her family is all around, there are a lot of distractions, and she has limited alone time.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/184.In This Episode:How do the kids feel about living tiny?Living tiny changes your relationship with your familyThe motto that helped them keep moving forwardTips to keep moving toward your goal when it gets roughHow Erin started her business from the boatCreating a private place to work with limited spaceBalancing working from home, family time, and adapting to a new locationHow Erin gets internet on her boat to run her businessHow to approach the media to gain coverage on your tiny homeThis Week&apos;s Sponsor: PrecisionTempPrecisionTemp is making one product to solve two issues that I know everyone deals with in a tiny house: running out of hot water and heating your tiny house. PrecisionTemp has made the amazing TwinTemp Junior propane tankless water heater, which provides unlimited hot water for your tiny house and hydronic heating. This means you get warm heated floors, so there are no cold spots. It&apos;s designed specifically for tiny houses and features whisper-quiet operation as well as high efficiency. If you want more information on how PrecisionTemp can help make living tiny easier and more comfortable visit precisiontemp.com. While you&apos;re there, use the coupon code THLP for $100 off the TwinTemp Junior plus free shipping.

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Living and Working Tiny from a Boat

Not long ago, the Maine legislature passed LD 1981, a bill that defined tiny homes. It says "Tiny Home means a living space permanently constructed on a frame or chassis and designed for use as permanent living quarters." It then goes on to specify some other things about what a tiny home is. The Maine legislature then passed LD 1530, which is an act to allow people to live in Tiny Homes as a primary or accessory dwelling. This makes Maine the first state in the United States to legalize tiny house living statewide, and my guest, Corrine Watson was instrumental in making this happen. So in this conversation, Corrine will break down what these laws do and don&apos;t do, what the process of advocacy was like, and how you can look to Maine as a model to bring to your state or town to help the cause and legalize tiny houses.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/183.In This Episode:How did Maine legalize tiny homes and their use as full-time dwellings statewide?Does every city in Maine now have to allow tiny homes?What you can do to legalize tiny homes in your stateLean manufacturing is more efficient and less wastefulMaine isn&apos;t done: there are still things that need to be addressed

How One Advocate Helped Maine Legalize Tiny Homes

Figuring out what you need for a tiny house can be really confusing. Returning guest, Isabell Nagel-Brice has been working with 475 Building Supply, a company that sells high-performance building materials. In this episode, Isabelle breaks down which materials will help your house breathe properly, ventilate well, prevent mold, and just be a healthy tiny house to live in. She shares the names of these various products and explains what exactly they do to make your tiny house a healthy tiny house.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/182In This Episode:What is Intello Plus and when is it applicable?Why is the Solitex Mento 1000 great for outdoor builds?How an air exchange system worksThermal bridging and condensation issuesCold climate? This is how to build your floorSpray foam vs vapor-open insulationHow much building science should you know before moving into a tiny house?Lessons learned from 5 years of tiny livingWhy these tiny house trends may not work for youThis Week&apos;s Sponsor: PrecisionTempPrecisionTemp is making one product to solve two issues that I know everyone deals with in a tiny house: running out of hot water and heating your tiny house. PrecisionTemp has made the amazing TwinTemp Junior propane tankless water heater, which provides unlimited hot water for your tiny house and hydronic heating. This means you get warm heated floors, so there are no cold spots. It&apos;s designed specifically for tiny houses and features whisper-quiet operation as well as high efficiency. If you want more information on how PrecisionTemp can help make living tiny easier and more comfortable visit precisiontemp.com. While you&apos;re there, use the coupon code THLP for $100 off the TwinTemp Junior plus free shipping.

High Performance Building Materials

Janet and I have been talking for a while and we&apos;ve decided that it&apos;s finally time to pull back the curtain on the efforts that she has been working on for the last several months and do an interview on the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast. Janet is the Founder, President, and Treasurer of Tiny House Alliance USA and is currently leading an exploratory initiative to develop new global building standards with ASTM. Before your eyes glaze over, I encourage you to stick with this show because Janet does a great job of explaining what ASTM International is, what standards are, how they would impact the tiny house building industry, dwellers, DIYers, not just in the United States or North America, but in the entire world. It&apos;s a really exciting effort. I think there&apos;s a lot of potential here and we need more people to get involved. We need advocates and stakeholders to join the process and I&apos;m excited about it!Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/181In This Episode:What is ASTM and what do they do?Codes vs Standards and their effects on everythingHow ASTM works and who is involvedThe stakeholders that are involved in the global building standards effortMaking sure that codes and standards don&apos;t conflictThe ICC and their relationship with tiny homesCould tiny houses and cannabis have some things in common?About Janet&apos;s tiny home villageThis Week&apos;s Sponsor: Tiny House DecisionsTiny House Decisions is the guide that I wish I had when I was building my tiny house. And it comes in three different packages to help you on your unique tiny house journey. If you&apos;re struggling to figure out the systems for your tiny house, how you&apos;re going to heat it, how you&apos;re going to plumb it, what you&apos;re going to build it out, then tiny house decisions will take you through the process systematically and help you come up with a design that works for you. Right now I&apos;m offering 20% off any package of Tiny House Decisions for podcast listeners. Head over to https://www.thetinyhouse.net/thd and use the coupon code tiny at checkout!

Developing Global Building Standards for Tiny Homes: Tiny House Alliance USA on the ASTM Opportunity

Kol Peterson has been on the forefront of ADU development and advocacy for at least the last 10 years in Portland, Oregon. But don&apos;t worry! This conversation applies to ADUs at least everywhere in the United States, if not beyond. Kol is a really great thinker, is whip-smart, quite funny, and passionate about ADUs. In this conversation, we dive into why Kol sees ADUs as such an incredible opportunity for solving the housing crisis. We also talk about what&apos;s happening in Portland as it relates to tiny houses, probably making Portland the most tiny house-friendly city in the country.Full Show Notes: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/kol-petersonGuest Bio: Kol Peterson is an ADU expert based in Portland, Oregon, who has helped catalyze the exponential growth of ADUs in Portland over the last decade through ADU advocacy, education, consulting, policy work, and entrepreneurship through his company, Accessory Dwelling Strategies LLC. He is the author of Backdoor Revolution-The Definitive Guide to ADU Development. He is the owner of Caravan- The Tiny House Hotel, the first tiny house hotel in the world, and organizer of Portland’s popular ADU Tour. He consults with homeowners about ADUs on their property and teaches ADU classes for homeowners and for real estate agents in Oregon, Washington, and California. He also co-runs ADU Academy and the ADU Specialist designation for professionals with Earth Advantage. He edits and manages AccessoryDwellings.org and BuildinganADU.com.Kol developed and lived in a detached new construction ADU in 2011, and developed a basement/garage conversion ADU in 2018. He has a master&apos;s degree in environmental planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Prior to his ADU work, Kol worked in the federal government for ten years in Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon.Our Sponsor: Tiny House EngageWhen you listen to my conversation with Kol, you&apos;ll notice that I actually ask Kol a question that came in from Tiny House Engage. That&apos;s because Tiny House Engage members get to listen to these while I record these podcast episodes and ask questions of my guests. It&apos;s a really great way to get an inside look at the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast and also benefit from the amazing array of talented guests that we have on the podcast. Registration is open until Tuesday and you can learn everything you need to know about Tiny House Engage at thetinyhouse.net/engage.

The ADU Revolution and What it Means for Tiny Homes

I love finding out about new ways that tiny homes are being used to help people that are in need and the Veterans Community Project is an incredibly impressive organization that has accomplished a ton in just a few short years, including 49 tiny homes for veterans on a piece of property that they now own! Vincent Morales has been there from the start and together we go through the organization&apos;s history, what they do, how they settled on tiny houses, and how everything works with the Veterans Community Project. This is a really inspiring conversation and I&apos;m so grateful that there are people like Vincent out there doing the work that they&apos;re doing.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/179In This Episode:What does VCP do and who do they serveUsing tiny homes as the first step to healingAdvantages of a therapeutic space for PTSDHow veterans transition out of the tiny house villageWhy the community doesn&apos;t have a laundry roomHow can veterans get in touch with VCP?This Week&apos;s Sponsor: Tiny House EngageAs you&apos;ll hear in this interview community is so important - and not just in helping people to heal, but in helping people to thrive and move forward. That&apos;s why I started my online community called Tiny House Engage. Tiny House Engage is a place where tiny dreamers, tiny planners, people building their own tiny houses, and even people living tiny come together to support one another on their own tiny house journeys. Registration only opens every 4-6 weeks and that date is coming up! Tiny House Engage opens this coming Tuesday and you can find out all the details at thetinyhouse.net/engage. Even if you visit that page before Tuesday you can sign up to be notified when the doors to Tiny House Engage open. 

Tiny Houses for Veterans with Veteran's Community Project

Katy Zientek&apos;s tiny house caught my eye, when I learned that it was actually a shed that was converted into a tiny house. I have a very popular blog post about how to convert a shed to a tiny house, but I have never interviewed someone on the show who actually did it. Enter Katie, Katie and her husband took a shed that was built in the 1980s on their grandparents property, and turned it into a gorgeous Pinterest worthy tiny house. In this conversation, we go through all the basics, like how they did the floors, what they had to do to the walls, the ceilings, why they chose to add a porch, and all of the details that went into converting a shed into a tiny house. In this episode:How they converted a shed to a tiny home in 9 monthsWhat does it take to turn a shed into a house?Sleeping arrangements for a family of fourPlan the location of your appliances before you begin your buildSponsor:Did you know that I personally send a tiny house newsletter every week on Tuesdays? It&apos;s called Tiny Tuesdays and it&apos;s a weekly email with tiny house news, interviews, photos, and resources. It&apos;s free to subscribe and I even share sneak peeks of things that are coming up, ask for feedback about upcoming podcast guests, and more. It&apos;s really the best place to keep a pulse on what I&apos;m doing in the tiny house space and also stay informed about what&apos;s going on in the tiny house movement.To sign up go to thetinyhouse.net/newsletter. I&apos;ll never send you spam and if you don&apos;t want to receive emails, it&apos;s easy to unsubscribe.

How to Convert a Shed to a Tiny Home

 Alexis and Christian are returning to the show and so much has happened since Episode 12, their first appearance on the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast. For one thing, they have actually been staying put in their tiny house for the last two years and they are about to publish a new book, The Beginner&apos;s Guide to Tiny Houses. In this interview, we will catch up, learn about the new book and other projects that they&apos;re working on, and also talk about some of the exciting things that have been happening in 2021 for the tiny house movement. This is a wide-ranging interview and Alexis and Christian are like friendly, personable encyclopedias who know just about everything about the tiny house movement and what&apos;s happening. Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/177In This Episode:Catching up with Alexis and ChristianNomad vs Homebase: the benefits of settling after 4 years on the roadFinding parking for their house built before Appendix QAlexis and Christian wrote a new book!What&apos;s new for Tiny House Expedition?Huge wins for tiny home advocates in 2021Living Tiny Legally Part 3 is happening!This Week&apos;s Sponsor: Tiny TuesdaysDid you know that I personally send a tiny house newsletter every week on Tuesdays? It&apos;s called Tiny Tuesdays and it&apos;s a weekly email with tiny house news, interviews, photos, and resources. It&apos;s free to subscribe and I even share sneak peeks of things that are coming up, ask for feedback about upcoming podcast guests, and more. It&apos;s really the best place to keep a pulse on what I&apos;m doing in the tiny house space and also stay informed about what&apos;s going on in the tiny house movement.To sign up go to thetinyhouse.net/newsletter. I&apos;ll never send you spam and if you don&apos;t want to receive emails, it&apos;s easy to unsubscribe.

The Beginner's Guide to Tiny Houses

This week I am bringing you another show that I was a guest on. This time with the House Maven Katharine MacPhail on her show, Talking Home Renovations. Talking Home Renovations with the House Maven is an educational and entertaining podcast that will ease your fears if you are planning a home renovation and are worried that you don&apos;t know what you&apos;re doing. Katharine had me on the show to talk about renovating tiny homes. It was a great conversation and I think you&apos;ll enjoy this week&apos;s show.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/176In This Episode:A tiny home build can be more challenging than a traditional homeWhy would you need to renovate a house so small?Does a tiny house fall apart when it&apos;s moved?Appendix Q: what it is and why it&apos;s neededTiny home trendsWould it really be cheaper to buy a used tiny house and renovate it?

Talking Tiny Home Renovations

 As I record this today, I just got back from a week-long bicycle tour with my cousin on the coast of Maine and in a couple of days, I&apos;m heading down to the New Jersey shore to spend a week with aunts, uncles, and cousins. Instead of bringing you a show where I interview someone, I thought it would be interesting to share a show that I was a guest on where somebody interviews me. Enter Liz Sumner and the I Always Wanted To Podcast. The I Always Wanted To Podcast is a podcast for people who long to break out of their comfort zone and try something bold but need some encouragement. Liz interviews people who are doing things (or teaching things) that others long to do. I was a guest on the show back in June and I really enjoyed being interviewed by Liz Sumner. I think you&apos;ll enjoy it, too! Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/175In This Episode:Ethan&apos;s tiny house journeyWhat are the benefits of living tiny?Parking is still difficult... but it&apos;s getting better!Tips for moving a tiny houseAre tiny houses really cheaper than traditional houses?

I Always Wanted to Build a Tiny House

 The first time I met Sean he was sketching tiny houses in a sketchbook at a speaker dinner after a tiny house conference. I&apos;m so glad to have him on the podcast all these years later. Sean is an active member of Tiny House Engage, my online community, where he does monthly design reviews of various members&apos; tiny house designs and he is a professional architect. In this interview, we talk about Sean&apos;s design philosophies and the tiny home he designed and is almost finished building. We also cover how to build affordably in 2021 and beyond, as well as some of the ways that tiny houses can go wrong. Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/174In This Episode:Resilient design goes beyond sustainabilityThinking about the future while planning your tiny houseSean&apos;s own design, the Bento StudioCan you build affordably without sacrificing quality?The ups and downs of CLTsThis Week&apos;s Sponsor: PrecisionTempPrecisionTemp is making one product to solve two issues that I know everyone deals with in a tiny house: running out of hot water and heating your tiny house. PrecisionTemp has made the amazing TwinTemp Junior propane tankless water heater, which provides unlimited hot water for your tiny house and hydronic heating. This means you get warm heated floors, so there are no cold spots. It&apos;s designed specifically for tiny houses and features whisper-quiet operation as well as high efficiency. If you want more information on how PrecisionTemp can help make living tiny easier and more comfortable visit precisiontemp.com. While you&apos;re there, use the coupon code THLP for $100 off the TwinTemp Junior plus free shipping.

Designing Beyond Right Now

 Have you ever struggled to figure out what you want to be when you grow up? Or maybe you&apos;re already grown up and you still balance multiple interests and don&apos;t feel like you can just fit into one box. Today&apos;s guest, Emilie Wapnick, has created a whole set of resources just for people like that - people like you and like me - and I actually have a hunch that there are a lot of us among tiny house dwellers. The word that Emilie uses is "multipotentialite" and in this conversation we&apos;re going to talk about what a multipotentialite is and what our unique needs are when it comes to finding work and feeling fulfilled in our pursuits, whether it&apos;s work, creativity, or more. It&apos;s a really interesting conversation and I think you&apos;ll learn some things about yourself and about how you can apply some tips and techniques to planning and building a tiny house. Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/173In This Episode:How do you know if you&apos;re a multipod?Advice for taking on a large project, like a tiny houseDo you ever stop being a multipotentialite?Why Emilie chose to live tiny and what she learned from itHow to prioritize your projects and protect your time (and wallet)Work models that help multipods earn an incomeThis Week&apos;s Sponsor: PrecisionTempPrecisionTemp is making one product to solve two issues that I know everyone deals with in a tiny house: running out of hot water and heating your tiny house. PrecisionTemp has made the amazing TwinTemp Junior propane tankless water heater, which provides unlimited hot water for your tiny house and hydronic heating. This means you get warm heated floors, so there are no cold spots. It&apos;s designed specifically for tiny houses and features whisper-quiet operation as well as high efficiency. If you want more information on how PrecisionTemp can help make living tiny easier and more comfortable visit precisiontemp.com. While you&apos;re there, use the coupon code THLP for $100 off the TwinTemp Junior plus free shipping.

Are All Tiny House Dwellers Multipotentialites?

In this special episode of THLP, your host Ethan Waldman joins forces with veteran tiny house designer, builder and instructor, Lina Menard, to chat about "what we wish we knew before we started".  Plus, we bring you a sneak peak of our upcoming LIVE course, Tiny House Considerations, an interactive, 8 week course with Lina and Ethan as your guides. To get on the waitlist for Tiny House Considerations, head over to: https://www.thetinyhouse.net/considerationsIn This Episode:Could we have built our houses faster?Better together: the positive effects of a good support systemHow your budget can get away from youAbout our new course and who it can helpThe importance of knowing the ins and outs of your systems before you begin building

Two tiny house instructors on "What we wish we knew before we started"

Michael Janzen is a legend in the tiny house world, having started his website, TinyHouseDesign.com in 2007 and just continuing to work as a prolific designer pretty much since then. Michael has put a lot of plans out into the world and I have no doubt that there are many, many tiny houses that are built either directly from his designs or were inspired by them. On today&apos;s show, Michael stopped by to talk about the second edition of his book, Tiny House Floor Plans. It now contains over 350 tiny house floor plans and it&apos;s just a really cool book to look through. The houses are arranged from small to large and if you are in the design or planning process it&apos;s a really cool resource to just get some ideas about how you can lay out a tiny house. Our conversation is wide-ranging from things in the tiny house design world that Michael thinks are maybe not serving tiny houses, things that Michael is looking forward to, and more.Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/171In This Episode:Tackling burnout and re-energizing afterwardEvolution of the tiny house through the yearsUnusual, innovative, and fun: Michael&apos;s designs and processWhat are we questioning in regards to tiny houses?Is it possible to build a tiny house for free?This Week&apos;s Sponsor: Tiny House EngageThe summer can be a little bit too much fun, full of family, friends, distractions, holidays... But for those of us who are planning and building tiny houses what we really need is motivation, inspiration, and accountability to get our tiny houses done. That&apos;s exactly why I started Tiny House Engage!Tiny House Engage is an online community that brings together tiny dreamers, builders, and dwellers to inspire and support each other as we build tiny together. In Tiny House Engage, people are celebrating wins and navigating our challenges together. Let&apos;s face it: planning, building, and living tiny can be lonely. Tiny House Engage is a 24/7 online community designed to connect you with fellow tiny housers, get your questions answered, get inspired, feel that accountability, and progress toward your goal of living tiny.I really look forward to connecting with you in Tiny House Engage and watching as your tiny house dreams progress into tiny house reality. Head on over to thetinyhouse.net/engage to learn more.

350 Tiny House Floor Plans and Counting with Legendary Designer, Michael Janzen

If you&apos;ve been listening to the show for a while, you may recognize the name Natalie Bogwalker because she&apos;s been a guest in the past! Natalie is a wealth of knowledge about natural building techniques. In today&apos;s show, we are going to do a deep dive into two natural building techniques: slip straw and hempcrete. I went in knowing nothing about these and I asked really basic questions and Natalie really did a wonderful job explaining everything. Natalie also tells us all about how her online building school, Wild Abundance, had to shift to online learning during the pandemic and how she&apos;s now created what sounds like a pretty amazing online tiny house building course. Full show notes and images at thetinyhouse.net/170In This Episode:How Wild Abundance adapted and thrived during the pandemicAre online classes as effective as in-person classes?Slip straw vs cob: what&apos;s the difference?Natalie explains the slip straw techniqueShould you use slip straw in your THOW?What is hempcrete?Why we need to be using thatched roofsThis Week&apos;s Sponsor: Tiny House Engage Tiny House Engage is a really special online place where you can connect with other tiny house hopefuls, people who are DIY building their tiny houses, buying tiny houses, and even living the tiny house lifestyle. It&apos;s a really supportive community and there are a lot of cool features and bonuses that you get when you are a member of Tiny House Engage, one of which is that you are actually able to listen live as I interview all the podcast guests and you are even able to submit questions for the show. You&apos;ll hear in this conversation with Natalie that there are actually some really great questions that I was able to ask on behalf of Tiny House Engage members and I would love to be able to do the same for you.If you&apos;d like to learn more and get on the waitlist to be notified when Tiny House Engage goes live on Tuesday, head over to thetinyhouse.net/engage. 

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