Looking Into a Tiny Home? Visit The Great American Tiny House Show This Weekend

Sure, Texas lives up to the everything-is-bigger-in-Texas motto. But it also leans toward being tiny at times.

Elon Musk reportedly lived in a $50,000 400-square-foot, foldable, prefabricated housing unit at Boca Chica, Texas. Kim Lewis, the lead designer for six seasons at HGTV’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has stitched two tiny homes together for a living/working space in Hill Country.

Now, you can evaluate whether you need to go small this weekend in Arlington. The Tiny Home Industry Association is putting on the Great American Tiny House Show at the Arlington Expo Center featuring homes that measure less than 400 square feet.

The shows include an opportunity to network and collaborate with peers, experts, and suppliers; exhibits of innovative products, services, and ideas; and two days of seminar sessions with builders. Also, the event will include 15 tiny house builds on display on and off wheels, park models, converted school buses, and do-it-yourself builds.

Tickets are $10 online or $15 at the door, and free for children 13 or younger. The show is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The show is being produced in nine cities nationwide in partnership with the Tiny Home Industry Association and AMP Expos.

What’s the show’s intention?

“We want people to feel prepared and supported in their Tiny Dream or if they’ve already begun to live the tiny lifestyle, find a support network,” according to the show’s website.

Further, organizers said the tiny homes address “affordable housing, ethical consumerism” and a trend of people ages 24 to 32 and women over 50 who “spend less and have more by living a more simple life.” (That doesn’t exactly explain Elon Musk).