Making An Inexpensive Tiny Cabin

One can build a tiny house for about $10,000.  One can also convert a storage container cabin into a tiny house for $10,000 or less.  I started with a fairly inexpensive  10x18 cabin.  At the time of purchase, I added the following extras: a 4' porch, shudders on all windows, an extra door (back) and an insulation kit. The rest was up to me.   I have limited carpentry and building skills so I took it one step at a time, did the best I could and created myself a tiny place to call home.   I added flooring, tongue and groove wood paneling, a sleeping nook and a tiny bathroom, kitchen and living room. I built a bed for the nook, benches for the living/dining room, a tub, toilet and pedestal sink holder for the bathroom. 

I built this bed from scrap wood from another project.

Sleeping Nook with tongue and groove wood paneling.

Added bamboo to the walls of the area to become the bathroom.

Built a frame for the room and put durock on the floor. A wood floor of planks was later built over the durock.  The trough was later covered with hammered copper.

Added hammered copper paint to the trough, then drilled a hole for the plumbing.

After building this wall, I added shelving and covered it with bamboo on the inside and Korean paper on the outside.  The window was made from a painted dollar store picture frame.

 The pedestal sink holder built from leftover 4x4s.

 The first piece of kitchen furniture was this makeshift counter top. I simply laid 2x4s over 4x4 legs and laid more 2x4s across the top and covered it all with bamboo.  Will add a real counter top and sink later.

 Made simple cabinets with raw wood (2x4s).  May paint later, may  not.  That's green bamboo on the wall behind the cabinets.

 I left a little room near the front door for a closet which is made of 1x4s and handmade Korean paper.

I just remembered that I built the closet before I built the kitchen cabinets.  I kind of built things as I felt the need for them.

Covered the living/diningroom walls with a combination of bamboo and pine boards.  I then built low benches (which I later added longer legs to) and an elevated 2x4 floor.

The same area with the raised benches.  The light on the table is pretty bright (recharged via usb cable) and the one on the wall uses batteries (recharged by the sun).