While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Tiny House books.
- Tiny House Design & Construction Guide (2016)
- Tiny House Living: Ideas For Building and Living Well In Less than 400 Square Feet (2014)
- Tiny Houses: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide! : 20 Space Hacks for Living Big in Your Tiny House (2016)
- Tiny House Floor Plans: Over 200 Interior Designs for Tiny Houses (2012)
- Tiny Living (Idiot’s Guides) (2017)
- Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-Time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less (2018)
- How To Build Your Own Tiny House (2019)
- Building your Moveable Tiny House with Mindfulness (2018)
- The Big Book of Small Home Plans: Over 360 Home Plans Under 1200 Square Feet (Creative Homeowner) Cabins, Cottages, & Tiny Houses, Plus How to Maximize Your Living Space with Organization & Decorating (2017)
- The Joy of Tiny House Living: Everything You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge (Creative Homeowner) How-To Manual of Practical Considerations for Building, Owning & Living in a Tiny Home on Wheels (2019)
- Tiny Houses: A Complete Step-By-Step houses plans, … houses the perfect, tiny houses for sale) (2016)
- Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures (2015)
- Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials: Inspiration for Constructing Tiny Homes Using Salvaged and Reclaimed Supplies (2016)
- Tiny House Engineers Notebook: Volume 1, Off Grid Power: Tiny House Engineers Notebook: Volume 1, Off Grid Power (2016)
Tiny House Design & Construction Guide (2016)
Take the first step to achieving your dream of building and living in your very own tiny house! The Tiny House Design & Construction Guide is your road map to the entire build process.
Tiny House Living: Ideas For Building and Living Well In Less than 400 Square Feet (2014)
Tiny House, Large Lifestyle!Tiny homes are popping up across America, captivating people with their novel approach not only to housing, but to life.
Tiny Houses: The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide! : 20 Space Hacks for Living Big in Your Tiny House (2016)
Tiny Houses Join the Movement Today! Have you ever thought about what it would be like living small, but luxuriously? Not sure where to start, or how to the process of engineering your own Tiny House would look like? This book will give you the steps and strategies you need to start living a tiny life!
Tiny House Floor Plans: Over 200 Interior Designs for Tiny Houses (2012)
Inside Tiny House Floor Plans you’ll find over 200 interior designs for tiny houses – 230 to be exact. A tiny house is exactly what it sounds like, a house with many of the amenities you’d expect in a home tucked neatly into a super small space. Often these homes are built on trailers giving them the added benefit of mobility. But these designs could also be built on your choice of foundation.
Tiny Living (Idiot’s Guides) (2017)
Do you dream of simplifying your life, freeing up your financial resources, and ditching all of the clutter that’s weighing you down?
Micro Living: 40 Innovative Tiny Houses Equipped for Full-Time Living, in 400 Square Feet or Less (2018)
For everyone who’s ever dreamed of simplifying their life and downsizing their home, Micro Living offers an insider’s look at what tiny house living is really like.
How To Build Your Own Tiny House (2019)
Tiny homes are all the rage these days, especially among young people new to the housing market, for people wanting a small dwelling as a second home or as a studio, and among singles and empty nesters.
Building your Moveable Tiny House with Mindfulness (2018)
Don’t’ start your build without reading this book!Considering building a tiny house on wheels (THoW)? If so, this is the book for you! Clearly covering all aspects of the building process – starting with the most important part, planning. With information on everything from what a THoW or moveable tiny home is legally, to trailer design, what to use for materials, and even where you can park it.
The Big Book of Small Home Plans: Over 360 Home Plans Under 1200 Square Feet (Creative Homeowner) Cabins, Cottages, & Tiny Houses, Plus How to Maximize Your Living Space with Organization & Decorating (2017)
Smaller homes are growing in popularity as more of us decide to live simpler yet fuller lives with less square footage, less responsibility, and less stuff. Smaller homes can provide substantial savings in tax, building, heating, maintenance, and repair costs, with reduced ecological impact.Build the small home of your dreams by doing all or part of the work yourself!
The Joy of Tiny House Living: Everything You Need to Know Before Taking the Plunge (Creative Homeowner) How-To Manual of Practical Considerations for Building, Owning & Living in a Tiny Home on Wheels (2019)
The tiny house movement continues to grow and thrive. Are you ready to go tiny? If you’re considering joining the small home lifestyle, you have many decisions to make before you can realize your dream: Is tiny living right for me? What kind of structure should I build? Where can I park my tiny house?
Tiny Houses: A Complete Step-By-Step houses plans, … houses the perfect, tiny houses for sale) (2016)
You’re about to discover how to Live in a **Super** Tiny Home! You’ll learn how to judge if you should build your own tiny home, what floor plans to use, or if you should hire someone. You’ll learn how to maximize your space, and what to consider when dealing with basic necessities such as a bathrooms and kitchens. Here Is a Preview Of What’s Inside
Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures (2015)
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible.
Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials: Inspiration for Constructing Tiny Homes Using Salvaged and Reclaimed Supplies (2016)
The tiny house movement is a big trend with a very small footprint. Extremely small house, with less than 1,000 square feet of space, are environmentally friendly, less expensive than typical homes, and often movable. Tiny Houses Built with Recycled Materials is full of ideas for using reclaimed materials and upcycled goods to construct a tiny house that is good for the earth and truly unique.
Tiny House Engineers Notebook: Volume 1, Off Grid Power: Tiny House Engineers Notebook: Volume 1, Off Grid Power (2016)
Written by Chris Haynes an engineer and off grid tiny house dweller, this book will get you started on the road to building your own off grid power system. The search results in front of you contain a ton of books that claim to be the “complete guide to something or other”. This book is much different! Many books are too simple to be of use, and others are too complex for a new builder. The result is a book collecting dust on your physical or electronic bookshelf.
Best Tiny House Books to Read
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some tiny house books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
HowExpert Guide to Converting a Vehicle into a Tiny Travel Home: 101 Tips to Learn How to Convert a School Bus, Van, or Other Vehicle into a Tiny Traveling House on Wheels
Author(s): HowExpert, Cassie Moesner
ID: 3413762, Publisher: HowExpert, Year: 2022, Size: 148 Kb, Format: epub
South Island Tiny House: Our Journey Moving to New Zealand and Building a Tiny House on Wheels
Author(s): Corianne Holmes
ID: 3381596, Publisher: Corianne Holmes, Year: 2021, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Tiny House Living: Living Large in a Small Abode
Author(s): Timothy Stevens
ID: 3459135, Publisher: Timothy Stevens, Year: 2021, Size: 1 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not errorless. Some books are really best-sellers according to USA Today, others are composed by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.