If you live in a tiny home, then you must care for it in the same way as a larger house. While the home is smaller, the building will still have problems that you must find a solution for to make the house more livable. Here are five solutions for your tiny home.

Remaining Organized

A tiny home only has enough space for a limited number of possessions, so you will need great organizational skills. It is essential to have customized storage systems for the house that are located in interesting locations that can include the empty space underneath a stair’s steps or higher up near the ceiling of the tiny home. When you have larger possessions that you don’t have enough space for you should donate them or recycle them instead of throwing them away.

Adequate Climate Control

Despite having a smaller home, you will need climate control for the summer and the winter, so you must talk to a heating and cooling technician about selecting smaller air conditioners or furnaces. You can give a second life to those found online instead of buying new. You can even find working parts in a junkyard from an RV. You will probably need electrical powered devices to maintain the climate in your tiny home, but you should also consider adequate ventilation with windows on the sides or the roof of the house. Depending on where you plan to live you can plan your tiny home to have windows and screens to let a breeze in while maintaining pests away.

Daily Living

One of the ways that you can cut down on your carbon footprint when you are living in a tiny home is with the way that you live your day to day life. There are many aspects of our daily lives that produce copious amounts of trash. We are so used to producing trash that we are unaware at how much we really impact unless we take a conscious effort to cut back.

If you are in a tiny home you are going to have limited space for everything. This means finding double use for items and being able to reuse items. There are no Costco trips and no place to store a big pantry. This is why you should own metal or ceramic plates. Disposable one time use plates, cups, zip log bags, and cling wrap produce much of the waste that we see in the ocean. You can use beeswax and old t-shirts to make reusable covers for food. You can make sandwich bags that are washable out of recycled shirts. One of the plus sides to having metal cooking utensils is that you can put them in the heat if you end up using a campfire so they become versatile.

Nature Calls

You have to be conscious about the waste and space used for everything from eating to going to the bathroom. You have to think of what plumbing service you are going to want to use. Will you just go in the wilderness? Are you going to install septic tank pumping    to give you a better sense of hygiene? Something you can do when you take care of your bathroom business is reduce paper waste by utilizing a bidet to reduce toilet paper. This will use water instead of paper and will preserve space in the small home. 

Preventing Pest Infestations

You will want to prevent a pest infestation from rodents or insects in your tiny home. This may seem difficult because the walls, floors and ceilings aren’t as thick as a regular house, but if you keep your home clean along with storing foods properly, you are less likely to have invasions of mice or cockroaches. Make sure to keep your trash in sealed containers or waste bins to avoid attracting any vermin. You can use catch and release traps instead of glue traps. Try planting wild mint outside the tiny home to keep a natural repellent.

Keeping a Tiny Home Secure

It is a good idea to keep your tiny home secure with special locks on the doors and windows. You may also want to install a security alarm system or surveillance cameras to prevent theft from your small home. This doesn’t mean going to the store. You can reduce carbon footprint by being creative recycling used items. You can use a baby monitor system for a simple camera to see outside if there are critters. Think outside the box and find multiple uses to items when you have a smaller home. To prevent theft of the entire tiny home, you should secure it to a foundation or have it tied down deep into the soil.

Join a Tiny Home Support Group

You should join a tiny home support group to get more information from other homeowners about keeping your home safe and secure. This will be a great way to network and find other tips from likeminded individuals. Someone’s trash is another home owner’s treasure. This is a great way to be able to recycle and reuse parts used in the tiny homes.

Solar Power

You don’t need to have the biggest and newest solar panels to help with your small and tiny home. You can buy wireless lights to light a path to your home that you steak into the ground. They automatically turn on and off and you can easily thrift these items after the summer is gone. A small solar panel on top of your tiny home will be a great and excellent green way to be able to utilize the environment to your benefit. You will be able to have enough power to keep a small fridge, have light in the dark and power small electronics like a phone and a television. Just because you live in a tiny home doesn’t mean you have to leave today’s comforts or amenities. You can still choose to have a green and impactful lifestyle as long as you are conscious about what you consume and how you consume it.

Most people want to live in a tiny home for environmental reasons, financial purposes, and to let go of the busy structure of today’s life. Whatever your reasoning is, you can take care of the planet with a little bit of effort.