Seasons & episodes

A grad student wants a permanent place to call home in California's expensive Bay Area. To make her dream come true, she travels to Billings, Mont., to meet with a builder and look at model tiny homes that fit within her $64,000 budget. Among her concerns is finding a place with space for a bed on the ground and the open layout she desires.

A single mom from Anderson, S.C., decides to show her two teenage children that living with less can allow them more financial freedom. With a budget of $60,000, they look for a small place, but with separate sleeping areas for the kids and space to store their musical instruments.

San Antonio parents go tiny to spend more time with their three young children and live mortgage free. But it's a challenge finding a place that fits their family and with desired features, including a full kitchen and bathtub, plus room for a comic book and action figure collection.

A bachelor wants a fresh start when he goes tiny in the expensive San Francisco housing market, where he searches with his $500,000 budget for a home that's over 400 square feet, with a bright, open feel, and a separate bedroom.

A couple who reside in Frisco, Texas, spend months at a time running their nonprofit in Africa. Now that their four children are grown and on their own, they decide it's time to downsize on a budget of $50,000. But first they need to find some middle ground since they have very different ideas of what living tiny means.

A Los Angeles couple look for a tiny fixer-upper with land for their animals for only $265,000, which could be a difficult budget to work with in pricey L.A.