It's one answer to the complaint that tiny houses are too small: build it with an electrically operated, expandable slide-out.

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August is the best month for tiny houses and here are the best tiny houses of August.

We visited Canada's first tiny house festival to find out more about this newly declared eco-residential development in Quebec for homes under 1,000 square feet in size.

In a Canadian province where a winter heating with electricity might cost a few hundred dollars per month minimum, this man manages to cut his heating bill by using free solar energy.

Tiny houses don't have to be overly cute and rustic, as this little modern home shows.

Built on a gooseneck trailer, this big tiny home features a lot of clever small-space design ideas.

Lots of luxurious details in this solar-powered, off-grid tiny house.

This micro-home is a customized, winter-proofed dwelling for two.

Coming in at 425 square feet, this extra-wide, modernist tiny house actually feels quite roomy.

Hawaiian engineers think that it can address many of the world's problems. Are they too ambitious?

In Haida Gwaii the trees are so big that you could live in them.

This young man's mortgage-free home includes an interesting self-built version of the rare species known as the heated ceiling.

They also build a "tree house" for themselves. It's almost an indoor community.

This bright pink wonder is small, but packs in quite a bit of the basics.

Not coming soon from a modular company near you.

Currently moored in London's St. Katharine Docks, this lovely modern houseboat is on the market for £290,000.

With the aim of inspiring others to start building things, this self-taught carpenter mother of two is giving away the DIY plans for this tiny house and the furniture inside for free.

This rustic, modern tiny home features lots of smart space-saving ideas, plus a self-built bed that can lift up and down automatically.

This book full of small space design ideas is a handy tool for those wanting to get their own tiny house built.

Featuring a tall living room and a big kitchen, this tiny dwelling from Canada packs a big personality.

Building and living in a tiny house can be a big step toward living more sustainably, but using repurposed salvaged building materials to build one might be the Holy Grail of green living.

Want to build your own tiny house? Clueless about where to start? Check out this Instructables tutorial.

Caveat emptor.

There is more to the tiny house movement than just living with less. It can also be a story about resilience, sustainability and adaptablility.

Full of vibrant colors, patterns and eclectic decor, this tiny house is not as minimalist as its exterior might suggest.

Thanks to some careful, clever details, this 24-foot-long tiny house feels big, bright and open.

This spacious tiny home is great for entertaining and cooking up a storm.

This family's self-built tiny house is part of a small off-grid homestead out in Maui.

This couple applied precious life lessons -- learned from years of bicycle touring -- into designing their modern tiny house on foundations.

This impressive home features a lot of great multifunctional ideas, plus a custom-built cat run for two felines in the back.

Interested in living in a tiny house, but not sure where to park it? Here are some places to start with.

Get a taste of tiny house building, thanks to Jake and Kiva, who are documenting their tiny house building process, step by step.

This little shelter, which can be built in less than two days, is designed to be suspended between two trees, without leaving a trace on them.

This tiny house project is developing a multidisciplinary curriculum and tutorial series for schools and for individuals, as well as giving away a "Dream Tiny House."

When you want to really pursue your dreams, instead of simply dreaming them, you might need to think outside the box. Outside the housing box, that is.

Hold on to your wallets, because this little dwelling isn't for sale yet, but it is a promising development in the tiny house movement.

Even with the growing number of tiny apartments and multi-functional homes coming up in the media these days this project shows the English architect had it right in the 1940s.

Babies are small. They can occupy a small space.

This elegantly designed small space presents yet another solution for the bed: lifting it up to the ceiling and out of the way.

This well-crafted tiny dwelling has its own space-saving elevator bed that can go up and down with the push of a button.

This kind of trailer means you can eliminate the head-banging sleeping loft.

This tiny house builder and architect just built himself and his wife a bigger (but still tiny) home, equipped with a space-saving elevator bed.

This contemporary small dwelling has both a main-floor bedroom and a secondary sleeping loft.

Another look at what's out there in the world of composting and other alternative toilets

Aiming to live a lighter-impact lifestyle, this green lifestyle activist lives in a self-built tiny house and experiments with growing and foraging his own food.

After years of tiny house bloat, it is nice to see a minimalist design that gets back to the essentials.

Two undergrads hatched an innovative plan to build this super eco-friendly cabin in the woods of Finland; Mother Nature approves..

With this tiny home on wheels, living with less doesn't mean abandoning pampering.