Check out all the updates around Shellmate Island on A&E!
https://play.aetv.com/shows/living-smaller/season-1/episode-13
Oliver’s first exclusive! After doing an interview with Insider, they loved Olivers litterbox storage hack so much they made a whole article on it. Asked me 5-6 years ago if I would be talking about a litter box to a Lifestyle website and I would have thought you were crazy! Life is wild!
https://www.insider.com/tiny-home-owner-cat-litter-box-storage-hack-2021-3
First time I think someone called me a “man” on the internet! lol This was a great article on a little back history of my life living tiny! Enjoy!
This was a big deal for me, Apartment Therapy write a beautiful home tour of both Tiffany and Shellmate Island! Also asked some great questions no one else has asked in the past!
https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/tiny-house-and-octagon-shaped-tiny-house-tour-photos-36885506
Calling all tiny home lovers!🤪 Was able to sit down with tinyhomelovers.com on some of the main reasons I choose the tiny house lifestyle! Enjoy
Tiny Home Tours stopped by to check out Tiffany and the island and give a little glimpse of the tiny house lifestyle!
Wow look ma, we made it on MSN! This was a cool little feature we had in the money section on the financial benefits of the property and how tiny living achieved some freedom and income!
Houwzer reached out to us asking if we would be able to talk about what our space meant to us and how we view it compared to traditional homes!
Looking for some space saving tips? Redfin reached out to us and we gave a couple of our best!
What an honor to be asked about our Covid-19 experience from the New York Post! While I wait in the grocery line it was always the tabloid I loved reading the head lines such as “Bezos Exposes Pecker” ! We were even able to pick up a paper copy with our article in it!
https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/tiny-house-owners-share-how-they-survived-covid-19-lockdown/
Tiny House For Us wanted to hear more about Shellmate Island and tiny house on foundation! After moving onto the island after about a week we gave them our first impression in living in the Deltec tiny home!
Its always cool to see real life scientist are doing research into the tiny house community! Alice Elizabeth Wilson, PhD Researcher in Sociology, University of York, reached out to us and we were able to give some inside of our life for her research! Make sure you check out what she found out talking to the tiny house community as far as the UK!
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tiny-houses-why-more-people-151139458.html
Always cool having the internet to connect our tiny house community all over the world these days. We caught up with Roman & Ioana from Riexploring who live in a VW LT35 in Switzerland! Being able to talk to them about what we are doing and tour on of home on their youtube was a great experience!
https://riexploring.com/2020/04/30/tiny-house-on-private-island/
We had to do a little bit of reorganizing during the Coronavirus lockdown. Here we talked about a couple techniques we used to be able to store more food and good in our 270 sqft tiny house on wheel!
United Tiny House Association, aka the Godfather and God Mother of the tiny house movement, put together this great video tour that we got to be apart of! Its one of the greatest video tours we have been apart of! You can get a real glimpse into our home and what makes it so special! Thank you again John and Fin
Business Insider reached out to use to ask us how we are doing during the Coronavirus! People were curious about tiny houses during this lock down! We talked about how our daily life has change and how our storage stockpile has changed slightly!
Insider reached out to 10 townhouse owners to check in on them during the covid-19. We were got to be apart of this
https://www.insider.com/tiny-house-owners-during-coronavirus-2020-4
Double Whammy! We had the great opportunity to work with our good friends Tiny House Talk again after three years of living tiny! The original article was one of the first tiny house interviews we ever did so its cool to take a look at both of them and reflect how things have worked out with our minimal lifestyle!
https://tinyhousetalk.com/three-years-later-following-up-with-tiffany-the-tiny-home/
So whats life like during self quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak? Well Tiny House Talk wanted to know! Here we go into detail about working from home in our tiny house and what we did with our storage options when we stocked up food and goods to lock ourselves in our 270sqft tiny house on wheels!
https://tinyhousetalk.com/tiny-house-quarantine-what-its-like-and-how-to-survive/
What an amazing experience to have Jenna from Tiny House Giant Journey to come and share our story to her audience! This was a real treat for us and I think you will agree that she has a very special talent on telling our story in the video below!
Business insider followed up with us and wanted to know some space saving tips on how we are able to live in such a small space! Check out the article below for some of the top hacks we use!
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiny-house-living-tips-hacks-small-space-2020-2
After attending the largest tiny house festival on the planet for 2 consecutive years with Tiffany, John and Fin from United Tiny House Association asked us to speak about our tiny living experience with Tiffany and with Shellmate Island. We spoke at the 2019 festival in Orlando, FL! We loved being part of this event!
https://www.unitedtinyhouse.com/2019-florida-tiny-house-festival/speakers/
Reader’s Digest reached out to us and asked us about space saving storage tip for small spaces! This one is our favorite trick that works in any home!
https://www.rd.com/home/cleaning-organizing/storage-hacks-from-people-living-in-tiny-houses/
What has changed financially since we have been living tiny? Business Insider asked us this questions and spoiler alert, amazing!
https://www.businessinsider.com/tiny-house-living-advice-financial-changes-to-expect-2019-7
Super honored to be nominated by @thesprucemakes as "The Best Tiny Homes on Instagram" ! Even if they did get our name wrong we still feel special! Check out the article link below!
Make sure you also check out the other beautiful nominations from the article! 💙😍
https://www.thespruce.com/best-tiny-homes-on-instagram-4686129
We got to sit down with Break Away Tribe and share a bit of our story and a bit about our future with Shellmate Island! Break Away Tribe is such a cool place to read about other stories of people breaking away into alternative lifestyles!
https://www.breakawaytribe.com/blogs/break-away-tales/tiffany-the-tiny-home
Lauren Smith from Master your Mind, Business, and Life reached out to us after seeing our Facebook post about WindStorm products! In this podcast we talk about out lifestyle and our transitions into tiny living as well as our next adventure with Shellmate Island! Enjoy!
https://www.mindbusinesslife.podbean.com/e/dreaming-big-living-tiny/
Aol reached out to us to include us and Tiffany on their series called “Dream Big Live Small”. It was really cool being able to show our home and a little bit about ourselves. The video is a must watch and make sure you check out the other episodes about other tiny house dwellers!
Check it out! Business Insider asked us to lay out the good, the bad and the ugly of the tiny house movement. Here we shared what unique challenges we’ve faced in going tiny. We also share what benefits we’ve enjoyed since making this lifestyle change!
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-tiny-house-living-pros-cons-2018-9
MindBodyGreen asked us about our own financial and mental health and how they’ve changed since going tiny. We also touch on reducing our environmental impact and the changes we made in preparation for this lifestyle change!
https://www.wayfair.com/furniture/sb1/murphy-beds-c46122-a3005~31911.html?expand=more
Wayfair asked us for our best tiny tips! We dissect the high efficiency of tiny homes and making the best use of your space. We love tiny homes that reflect the people who live in them, and Wayfair lays out how to create your space around your needs!
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/the-one-thing-people-get-wrong-about-living-in-a-tiny-home
We worked with Reform Life in their series of stories about tiny house dwellers. We share our decision making process in going tiny and highlight the realistic possibility for others looking to make the change.
We had the great pleasure of working with our friends at Tiny Houses and Beyond, where we shared our story of preparing for Hurricane Irma in 2017. This was an anxiety filled period, and we talk about the steps we took to keep our home safe when the hurricane was closing in on us. Take a peek!
https://tinyhousesandbeyond.com/2017/09/17/what-happens-to-tiny-houses-during-a-hurricane/
Tiny House for Us featured us in this post where we highlight the design and architectural features in Tiffany. Tim gets to talk about all the technology integrated within our home (his favorite thing).
http://tinyhousefor.us/tiny-house-spotlight/tiffany-the-tiny-home/
We had the pleasure early in our tiny house journey to team up with Alan at Dream Big Live Tiny Co. Alan asked us why we decided to make the switch from a traditional home to this tiny lifestyle!
https://www.dreambiglivetinyco.com/blogs/news/why-we-decided-to-go-tiny-tiffany-the-tiny-home
The legendary RoomPorn. We remember following this website’s social media since we signed up for Instagram. Who would have thought several years later we would be asked what life is like living in a tiny house!
Eek! Our first podcast let alone “The Tiny House Podcast” out of Oregon. We covered living in Florida, our experience with the hurricane, and living in an RV park. We had such a great time doing this podcast but it’s always weird to hear your own voice!
http://tinyhouseblog.com/tiny-house-podcast/blue-beautiful-tiffany-tim-davidson-sam/
We had the chance to share our alternative lifestyle with the Jellyliving readers. We cover the challenges we face living the way we do, and all the benefits of this lifestyle. We shared our story in hopes of helping at least one person in making the decision to go tiny.
https://jellyliving.com/alternative-living/living-inside-tiffany-tiny-home/
Tiny House Talk found us in the beginning of our tiny home journey. It’s fun to look back on this interview and see how our answers to these questions have changed. We love sharing details about our home!
https://tinyhousetalk.com/tiffany-the-tiny-home-owner-interview/#more-61143
Cummins Architecture and Design wanted to learn more about our tiny life. We share details about our relationship and our habits, and how these things have evolved since going tiny. We share our tiny dreams and how much we love the design of our home.
https://cumminscabins.com/blog/tiffany-the-tiny-house-7/18/2017
Space Optimized put out a lovely interview with us where they delve into minimalism and what that looks like for us. They also go over the craftsman detail in our home. Maybe we’re biased, but we could look at the photos all day!
https://spaceoptimized.com/q-a-tiffany-the-tiny-home-the-beauty-of-downsizing/
Our friend Kendra reached out to us for an interview Helga Marie, and we were happy to oblige! She wanted to know what the conversation between us looked like when deciding to go tiny. She also covers minimalism, downsizing, and what advice we have for others looking to go tiny!
http://helga-marie.com/up-close-personal-vii-tim-sam-tiffany-the-tiny-home/
First For Women reached out to us for their piece on tiny living. This is a great article that explains why and how young couples are choosing this lifestyle, and the different designs and layouts of some gorgeous tiny homes.
Pes Descalcos included us in this great video about the builder of Tiffany, A New Beginning Tiny Homes. Funny story, when Tim went to show his mom Tiffany for the first time, Isabel and Robson were there checking out Tiffany for their own eyes during their holiday in the United States. This is one of our favorite videos of Tiffany because you can feel the quality and thought brought into the build in Adam’s words!
Leanne Stephens is the author of the award winning blog Tiny Houses and Beyond, author of the tinyhouse cookbook “Cooking in Small Spaces.” Leanne reached out to Sam after reading her step-by-step blog post about her adventure in the Kombucha making world and included it in “Cooking in Small Spaces”! There are tons of other great recipes from tiny house dwellers around the globe. We always like to pull this out when we want to try and make some new home cooked nom noms!
If you ever watched HGTV when Tiny Paradise show first came out then you saw the commercials that aired about every 10 mins with Tiffany plastered all over the TV screen and magazines. HGTV took Tiffany to Key Biscayne Beach in Miami in order for her to get a little tan on the beach and stretch her legs out! Watching and seeing these ads will never got old for us of course!