Tiny footprint

Tiny-house living is on the rise. Spurred by crazed real estate prices and perhaps a growing desire for simpler living, more people are making tiny dwellings into full-time homes.

But what would it mean for tiny homes to truly go lightly on the Earth? As a new team of builders is showing, making a thoroughly eco-friendly tiny home takes care and commitment.

SUSTAINABLE, NON-TOXIC MATERIALS

Tiny Lifestyle is a new business, based in Golden Bay and set up to ship custom-made tiny buildings across New Zealand. The structures are “hand-built with love,” says lead builder Graeme Scott, who mills the timber himself, then joins the wood into frames without nails, using traditional timber framing techniques that are thousands