Winston-Salem Couple Takes Tiny House on Expedition Across America
'Living Tiny Legally' Docu-Series Explores What It Takes to Get Tiny Homes Legalized
"To give people a behind-the-scenes view into the process, American filmmakers Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons of Tiny House Expedition recently debuted the first installment of a three-part docu-series called "Living Tiny Legally". They talk to tiny house owners, policy makers and other organizations about what it takes to legalize tiny homes. Watch the first part on YouTube."
Postcard from the 2016 Tiny House Jamboree
"Though the tiny-house movement has been gaining steam, many logistical uncertainties remain, such as where people can legally park and live in them. While no single list of locations is available, part one of the documentary series Living Tiny Legally (2016), screened at the Jamboree, can serve as “an educational resource for tiny house advocates and city officials.” The filmmakers and traveling tiny house couple, Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons, plan to add more resources and segments to the documentary in the future."
10 Tips for Living Small from Tiny Homeowners
"Stephens and Parsons — like most of the tiny home owners we spoke to — believe it's better to fill their lives with experiences rather than things. Living a minimalist lifestyle takes commitment, but it's best to start by just jumping in, they say.
"Shake off the mold, and redefine what personal success looks like to you — and have fun doing it," Stephens says.
Living Tiny Legally by Tiny House Expedition (Watch Now)
US Couple Build Spectacular Tiny Traveling House for Just $20,000
Couple Built Themselves A Tiny House Are Traveling the US Meeting Other Tiny House Owners
This Couple Quit Their Jobs and Travelled US Pulling the Tiniest House Imaginable
This Couple Travels the Country in a Tiny Home They Built for Under $20,000-- Take an Inside Look
From Film School to Love and Back Again
Colorado Springs Becomes the Tiny House "Capital of America"
How small can you go? The Tiny Home trend is explored on Thinking Out Loud.
A conversation with KBIA's Trevor Harris on our tiny living experience and the tiny house movement across the US.
Talking Tiny Homes
"Tiny House Expedition, a North Carolina-based video production company, interviewed Walsenburg officials Monday, June 13 at city hall. Alexis Stephens said the company is in the processing of shooting footage and interviews for two up-coming documentaries; ‘Living Tiny Legally’ and a documentary series on tiny home living in the United States and Canada. Stephens and partner, Christian Parsons, are also traveling in their own tiny home while making their videos. They are shown here talking with Walsenburg Planning and Zoning Chairman David Roesch..."
Tiny House Expedition Rolls Through Spur
"In May Spur and residents in the surrounding area likely noticed a tiny house on the road."
Even Earth Day is Bigger in Texas
"Why are they so passionate that they’d do this? It’s a matter of What We Need versus What We Want. It’s about showing off the big liberation you get from going tiny. You can move without having to move out, you can leave behind many of the worries of “regular” houses (maintenance, filling it, etc.) and of course, you can do your spring cleaning in about fifteen minutes!"
Tiny Houses: Coming to Denton?
Conversation with the good folks at Serve Denton, a nonprofit helping other nonprofits become self-sufficient.
“Tiny houses starts conversations and brings smiles.” – Alexis Stephens
Construction Careers Academy Student Compete in Tiny House Competition
The tiny homes, designed and built by teams of high school seniors at District’s Construction Careers Academy...
Roll with Alexis & Christian in a Tiny House
"Alexis + Christian of Tiny House Expedition are travelers, nomads and alternative dwellers. But that does not stop them from experiencing community. These two are weaving a tiny house network across the country—not defined by geographic boundaries, but through shared experiences, personal connections and open hearts and minds.
This couple is in the middle of a two-year project living and traveling in their tiny home and sharing stories of the tiny house community."
Tiny House: The Houses of Change
Our tiny home made it to France! Or a least a story about our tiny living experience and project did. :) This story is about the tiny house builder in France and the tiny house movement in the United States, featuring Tiny House Expedition as its primary subject. A French film crew followed us for four days as we travelled with our tiny home across Texas and arrived a tiny house village forming for Earth Day Texas.
Look Inside the Adorable Tiny Homes at Fair Park's Earth Day Texas
Earth Day Texas, held at Fair Park in Dallas, is one of the world’s largest Earth Day festivals, and this year’s event had a record breaking attendance of over 130,000. The premier attraction was a tiny house village, featuring 9 tiny houses (8 DIY and 1 professionally built) each house averaged approximately 5,000 visitors over the three-day event. The houses included A Bed Over My Head, Tiny House Expedition, Eco Cabins, The Best Little House in Texas, The Little Fish House, This Little Home of Mine, Terraform Tiny House, The Whittle Wagon and Nina Zamudio’s tiny home.
Those Crazy Tiny Houses are Hitting the Open Road
Tiny House Expedition Visits U-Haul Headquarters
"U-Haul recognizes the importance of sustainable projects and has been a proud partner of the expedition...helping Stephens and Parsons spread their message of "sustainable living". The couple found that both 17 and 20 foot U-Haul trucks are perfect options for hauling their tiny home on their journey across the United States."
This is What it's Really Like to Live and Travel in a Tiny House
"Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons of Tiny House Expedition, who travel throughout the US advocating for the legality of tiny homes (more on that later) while filming a documentary series..."
Episode 37 & 38, Featuring Tiny House Expedition
Tiny House Chat's very first interview podcast!
Triad Arts Weekend, Featuring Tiny House Expedition
For the third installment of stories from the road with Tiny House Expedition, producer Bethany Chafin catches up with Alexis & Christian while on a stop in Oklahoma.
What's It's Really Like to Live and Travel in a Tiny House
One of the best parts for the couple is "really tailoring for how you live your life. It's not doing without or depriving yourself...it's just really boiling down to the essence of what you really love or need and how you use your space," says Alexis.
Tiny Houses: Affordable and Environmentally Friendly
The Maricopa County Home and Garden show starts Friday morning and the stars of the event are these Tiny Homes.
Tiny House Expedition was the spokesperson for the Tiny Homes Street of Dreams at the Maricopa County Home Show in Phoenix, AZ, in January 2016.
Minimalist Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons, a look at their ‘Tiny House Expedition’
"For the many who travel a different path, wealth is measured by health, living small and with less, such is the case with Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons of Tiny House Expedition, a project they created which will document their nationwide travels..."
Sherwood Mom Waits to Move Into Self-Built Tiny House
"A documentary called Living Tiny, Legally is being shot by filmmakers Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons that hopes to advise cities on how to write laws to accommodate the popular bitty abodes."
What's It Really Like to Live & Travel in a Tiny House
"Each tiny home tells a story about its owner(s)—how it was built, where it traveled, and what purpose it serves...For Alexis and Christian, Alexis always loved the concept for small, simple, outdoor living and came up with the idea for a travel project to discover tiny home communities..."
How You Can Help Living Tiny Become Legal in More Places
Wonderful post by blogger Alex Pino in support of our documentary, Living Tiny, Legally! and our Indiegogo fundraising campaign.
"Right now, there are places to live tiny, but there’s not that many. In fact, it’s still illegal in most places and there aren’t far enough tiny house friendly communities out there to support us.
That’s why Alexis, Christian, Kai, and a handful of other tiny house enthusiasts are coming together to create a free documentary to educate people on legal tiny house living options. I’m confident that this will directly impact and influence the number of tiny house communities throughout the world. And right now you can help raise money for this free film by selecting and purchasing a perk to receive with your donation."
AZ Big Media: Maricopa County Home Show Offers New Ideas for 2016
Tiny House Expedition featured as part of Maricopa County Home & Garden Show's Tiny Homes Street of Dreams, a tiny house village display.
Tiny House Blog: Living Tiny, Legally
The original tiny house blogger, Kent Griswold writes in support of our Indiegogo campaign for our new co- production-- Living Tiny, Legally! The intent of this short documentary is to provide a proactive, illustrative resource for those seeking to bring tiny houses to their city but don't know where to start. With YOUR HELP, this documentary can be used as YOUR tool to proactively further meaningful conversations with your local municipal planners and help make legal tiny housing a reality in YOUR community.
Please check out our Indiegogo for more information. To learn more about this co-production and how it differs from our larger documentary, see our FAQ.
Off Grid Quest: Reblog
A Tale of Zoning Happily Ever After
Sharing our blog on the groundbreaking tiny housing zoning ordinance in Rockledge, Florida.
Shanty Life: Reblog
A Tale of Zoning Happily Ever After
We love to see our blog posts reaching new audiences through great sites like these. This post was originally featured on Tiny House Blog; Alexis is now a regular contributor.
Offline: SPARKcon Must-Dos
"An event as explosive as SPARKcon needs a guide—so we made you one! Check out our highlights of this annual festival that celebrates Raleigh's creativity and cool."
A lovely French blog post about our building experience and our documentary project:
Housing Resource Center, CUNA.ORG: Why Millennials are Buying Very Small Houses
"Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons are millennial filmmakers from Winston-Salem, N.C., who are building a tiny house on wheels. They are taking the house on a trip across the nation to shoot a documentary about tiny house community building called Tiny House Expedition.
"Living small means more freedom," Stephens says. "By choosing to live small, I can have more time and funds to do the things that I love—travel, spend time with friends, and opportunity to get more connected with my surroundings, from nature to community volunteering."
Tiny House Blog: Tiny House Expedition Video Tour
We had the great pleasure of connecting with the one & only, Kent Griswold of Tiny House Blog and the Tiny House Magazine, at the Tiny House Jamboree. He shared the Relax Shacks video tour and a little about us on his famous blog.
Relax Shacks: Tiny House Expedition Home on Wheels Tour
One of things we love about the tiny house movement is the amazing community of tiny housers! We had the pleasure of connecting with Ariel, tiny house dweller & blogger out of Wyoming. Her recent post shares her experience at the Tiny House Jamboree and features many of the tiny houses there. Looking forward to visiting her down the road!
Rocky Mountain Reflections: Tiny House Expedition Interview
WGHP Fox 8: Winston-Salem Couple's 'Tiny House Expedition'
"In this edition of the Buckley Report, meet Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons, who are selling the idea made famous by the German-America architect, Ludwig Miles van der Rohe, that less truly can be more"
The Pollination Project: Alexis Stephens & Christian Parsons, the Tiny House Expedition - new grantees!
The Pollination Project provides micro grants for social change projects worldwide. We are so incredibly honored & humbled to be included on their list of incredible & inspiring grantees. Seed the change!
Sustainafest Tiny House Project Build Blog: Week 5, Day 3
Our first out of state trip to Crownsville, MD to visit Sustainafest's tiny house building program for middle schoolers. It's not often you witness a group of pre-teens & teens work so well together & for a good cause-- learning the importance of sustainability in all aspects of life and building a sustainable home for someone in need.
The Habitat Cabarrus Chronicle: Tiny House Expedition Comes to Cabarrus County to Document Habitat Tiny House
"They are in town to interview our staff and Tiny House homeowner as well as to document the home dedication." What a magical experience this visit was, our first stop away from our hometown. We documented the first tiny house built as part of a Habitat tiny house pilot program seeking to reach folks who wouldn't normally be eligible for a Habitat home. Barbara Gorman is the new homeowner. Her life was changed forever for the better now that she has a home of her own, one that she can perform.
Tiny House Community: Tiny House Expedition Filming New Tiny House Documentary
Yes we are working on a new tiny house doc that focuses on tiny house communities (existing or in development) and tiny housing community projects.
NY Daily News: North Carolina Couple Embarks on Cross-Country Trip in 130-square-foot ‘Tiny House’
One lil' correction from this great story, we are NOT fully funded, in fact we are actively fundraising so we can reach all our documentary subjects. Every tiny bit helps: http://tinyhouseexpedition.com/donate
Plastics News: Dow Warms up Tiny House Expedition
Dow "provided Styrofoam brand insulation and Froth-Pak spray foam insulation for the walls, noting in a press release that when there’s not an inch to waste its products have thin profiles and are lightweight.
The company also created a graphic about the “big science behind a tiny home.” It gets into how spray foams block air infiltration and reduce moisture that causes mold and mildew as well as how air leaks need to be sealed because they account for 40 percent of the energy used to heat and cool a house."
Daily Mail: Living Large in 130 sq ft: Man Convinces Girlfriend to sell their North Carolina Mansions & Travel The Country in Self-Built 'Trailer Home'
Hahahaha! For the record, Alexis convinced Christian to take this tiny house adventure, and we moved out of our 900 sq ft house. In all fairness, that is a mansion compared our new tiny house. ;)
TinyHouseLiving.com: Follow Alexis & Christian on their Tiny House Expedition
"Alexis Stephens & Christian Parsons, filmmaker duo & an ordinary couple embarking on an extraordinary expedition across the nation in a tiny house on wheels. The purpose: document tiny house community building projects across the nation and tell the story of how each came into being, the people behind them & how they are making a difference in their communities.”
MLive.com: Could You Live Small Enough for a Tiny House?
Follow-up story to feature about our project (see below story). Readers share their thoughts on tiny living.
Read more here & leave a comment with your thoughts.
MLive.com: Couple Travels Country in 130 sq. foot Tiny House
"Outperformance Homes, like this tiny home, feature an integrated system of solutions that work to better protect the home from air and water infiltration, temperature fluctuations and energy loss. An Outperformance Home will be more sustainable and energy efficient, helping Alexis and Christian cut down on costs to keep the space comfortable while they travel around the United States educating communities about sustainable, affordable housing alternatives just like theirs."
conectica: Esta Casa Prueba que No Necesitas Mucho Espacio Para Vivir Bien
Here's one for our Spanish speaking amigos!
Huffington Post: 130 Square Foot Tiny Home Proves Size Does NOT Matter When It Comes To Living Well
"What we love about our house is how its tailored specifically for us," Stephens said in an interview with The Huffington Post. "The beauty of consciously simplifying is getting down to the essence of who you are, what you really love and really need."
Living Off the Grid Buzz: Couple From Winston-Salem U-Haul to their Dream
"Let’s get the message out about the tiny house projects to get the interest for the local communities. these guys are true champions getting around to these communities who are doing very tough and getting the word out that the local people in power can assist with community living also
Get your community ideas together and put it to the local officials to get the ball rolling. You may be surprised with the outcome!"
MyUhaulStory.com: The Tiny House Expedition, Sustainable and Affordable Living
"The couple is planning to embark on a grand expedition, traveling across the country with their tiny house on wheels. They hope to document tiny house community-building projects across the nation...Through their stories, the Tiny House Expedition aims to spark interest about the positive effects that these tiny-housing projects can bring to local communities...They have chosen to use a U-Haul truck to transport their tiny house on wheels."
TinyHouseLiving.com: Tiny House Expedition
"Stephens and Parsons built their abode in part to show the mind-boggling space benefits of tiny-home living. The house features a queen-size bed, as well as a sleeping loft and stairs that double as a closet. The living room has a sleeper couch with built-in storage compartments, another loft, a dining table and a kitchen. A separate bathroom nook provides privacy, too.”
Dow: The Big Science Behind a Tiny Home
"Built using Outperformance Home ingredients from Dow for optimal insulation and air sealing, the Tiny House Expedition is well-equipped to travel wherever their mission takes them in climates from Florida to Alaska, knowing they're protected from nature's elements."
WFMY News 2: Couple Touring Tiny Houses Nationwide
Reporter Jessica Mensch stopped by our tiny house for a tour & to learn more about our upcoming trip across the country to visit and document tiny house communities & community projects.
The Carolina Crew: Tiny Houses Winston-Salem
Blog coverage about Tiny House Expedition on the Green and potential for tiny houses in Winston-Salem, NC.
WXII 12: Tiny House Exhibit in Winston-Salem
WXII stopped by Tiny House Expedition on the Green, Saturday 6/20/15, a tiny house community showcase, pop-up park & party. This was a celebration of the completion of our tiny house, the start of expedition & of our local community. Three tiny houses were on display in mock tiny house, pocket neighborhood.
Triad Arts Weekend: Tiny House Expedition
Producer Bethany Chafin of NPR affiliate, 88.5 WFDD continues to follow our expedition. Installment #2 with extended interview. Story starts at 20:20.
88.5 WFDD: Tiny House Expedition Holds Community Showcase, Pop-Up Park, and Party Before Hitting the Road
Alexis & Christian of #TeamTinyX sit down with Bethany Chafin at NPR affiliate, WFDD for 2nd installment of on-going project coverage by the Triad Arts program.
Winston Salem Journal: Big Ideas Inside Tiny Houses
“For me, tiny housing is about less is more. It’s the idea of living smaller to create more abundance,” Stephens said. “Abundance could mean financial, environmental, freedom, time, mobility and connection to surroundings — nature or community.”
Tiny House Talk: Tiny House Expedition: Think BIG, Build Small
If you are a tiny house enthusiast, then you are probably familiar with Tiny House Talk and the Tiny House Newsletter; great resources for learning about tiny houses, the movement & growing community of folks simplifying their lives to find more freedom & happiness. We're happy to be featured!
Earth Friends: Tiny House Expedition Interview
"Alexis Stephens and Christian Parsons are living the dream. And while the house might be tiny, their project is nothing but! Learn more about these trailblazers and their exciting documentary project in our exclusive interview with Alexis in March 2015."
TWC News: “Tiny Houses” Are Latest Trend at Triad Home & Garden Show
Live interview at the Triad Home & Garden show.
"It's the latest trends basically in the home and garden industry... We got the Tiny House Expedition, which has a lot of buzz on HGTV,” said Gary Hennessey, a sponsor at the Triad Home and Garden Show.
Winston-Salem Journal: See a local couple's tiny house vision at the 2015 Triad Home & Garden Show
"Current innovative uses for tiny houses include housing for the homeless, neighborhood revitalization and urban infill projects that utilize vacant lots to beautify and spur economic development," Stephens concluded. "Tiny houses are not a brand-new concept, but through modem design capabilities, energy efficiency and affordability, they have become an innovative housing solution."
Triad Arts, 88.5 WFDD: Tiny House Expedition, 12/5
What is Tiny House Expedition all about it? This long-format interview by Bethany Chafin provides an insightful look into the beginnings of our expedition (journey with a purpose), plus what tiny house community projects inspire us & how we hope to inspire others.
Story starts at 16:30. Listen for #TeamTinyX composer, Tim Nolan's music!
