Teaspoon Dwellings • Tiny Homes & Camper Conversions

Hey there! My name is Mike Spooner and I build unique tiny homes and camper conversions with a focus on thoughtful design, careful craftsmanship, and building science fundamentals. I’m based in southern New England where I’ve had my own 8.5’ × 24’ tiny home, ProcessHouse, since 2020—a DIY build I started in 2016. This website serves as a space for me to share projects I’m working on and some of what I’ve learned along the way. Interested in working together on a project? Feel free to get in touch with me at .

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Teeny Tiny Cardboard House

Posted by Mike Spooner, 16 November 2014 1:34 pm

Tiny house cardboard model (front)

June 2016 Update: The design I am building has changed once again and will be entirely different from the one pictured here. I’m keeping the new design under wraps for now–hopefully you will enjoy seeing it revealed as it is built! A rough scale model of ProcessHouse created out of cardboard and construction paper to get a better feel for the relative… View More

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Tiny House Loft (Re)design

Posted by Mike Spooner, 27 October 2014 9:59 pm

June 2016 Update: The design I am building has changed once again and will be entirely different from the one pictured here. I’m keeping the new design under wraps for now–hopefully you will enjoy seeing it revealed as it is built! Ok, so let me be honest: the loft in my tiny house has always been a bit of an afterthought. In fact, my design in its original form bypassed the loft altogether.… View More

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Roof pitch and floating stairs

Posted by Mike Spooner, 20 October 2014 9:26 pm

Increased roof pitch, shorter height in front

June 2016 Update: The design I am building has changed once again and will be entirely different from the one pictured here. I’m keeping the new design under wraps for now–hopefully you will enjoy seeing it revealed as it is built! I’m happy to report that I put the finishing touches on my first “legit” construction project last weekend, finishing up a small deck expansion… View More

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Next Steps

Posted by Mike Spooner, 29 September 2014 10:00 pm

Future site of ProcessHouse?

Well, it’s official–Autumn is upon us. As I’m using these crisp, cool fall days to wrap up some smaller projects around my parent’s house (good practice for what’s to come), I’m starting to think about how to best spend the next 6 months to be ready to start construction on the tiny house come Spring/Summer 2015. Here’s a partial list of what I’m going to be working on over the… View More

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Tiny House Design Goals

Posted by Mike Spooner, 21 September 2014 6:38 pm

Design is part aesthetics (making stuff “look pretty” as one of my coworkers likes to put it) and part problem solving (making it function well). As a web designer, this is something I know intimately. But most problems can be solved in more than one way. So how do you choose from multiple solutions? I encounter such design problems every day, and my approach to these situations is to try and find solutions that… View More