Home tours are your chance to get inside and explore new layouts and features. On Sunday, March 11, people curious about living in a tiny house -- from 150 to 180 square feet -- can wiggle around compact kitchens, climb up to sleeping lofts and see how bitty abodes can accommodate simple living.

Tiny Digs, a cluster of custom-built cottages on wheels at 2646 N.E. Glisan St. in Portland's Kerns neighborhood, will be open to looky-loos from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday ($10 at the gate).

Hotel co-owner Pam Westra says people can poke around eight individually styled small shelters. Builders from Friesian Woodcrafters will be on hand to answer questions about creating space-efficient dwellings and to explain how they install water pipes for a sink, flush toilet and hot shower and electricity for heat and air conditioning into a home smaller than a parking spot.

-- Janet Eastman



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