Cohousing village: Jay Shafer has deservedly been called the father of the tiny house movement, and he's been on the leading edge of the trend since its inception. The founder of he left that ...

Tiny houses ... growing small-house movement, and includes a video of in his 8-by-12-foot house. "Living in this little house has allowed me to totally reinvent my life," Shafer says.

Jay Shafer grew up in a 3,000-square-foot, Mediterranean-style house in Mission Viejo. He lives today in a tiny house -- “half the size of my childhood bedroom” -- that he built on privately ...

Jay Shafer sweats the small stuff ... paying meticulous attention to detail exemplify Shafer's craft: designing tiny houses. The Sonoma County resident is considered a father of the tiny house ...

Jay Shafer, of the Tumbleweed Tiny House Company, talks about the movement to build small homes. Shafer builds — and lives in — houses as small as 70 square feet. He's encouraging others to ...

Jay Shafer's dream isn't of a lifestyle writ large but of one carefully created and then writ tiny. Shafer, the founder of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, began his love affair with diminutive dwellings ...

Jay Shafer thinks "cozy" may be ready for a comeback. As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, Shafer builds and designs tiny houses — and lives in one himself. "The small space is a ...

Jay Shafer has been building and living in tiny houses since 1999 and has since been working to encourage more people that they don’t need nearly as much living space as they think they do.

Tiny house guru Jay Shafer envisions a vibrant village of small houses with shared amenities. There’s a new cottage industry sprouting up outside of Sebastopol, and it doesn’t resemble the ...

In an era of McMansion, the home the size of the average shed seems unthinkable, but Jay Shafer's entire house is just 70 square feet, a tiny home, he calls it, and he's encouraging others to live ...