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Space-saving apartment: walk-thru shower & fridge-in-drawer
John MacPeek has fond memories of living out of a suitcase when he first moved to Europe over 2 decades ago. “There's a real advantage to having everything you own that you can carry on your back at one point". So when he was looking to buy an apartment ...
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2 days, 6 hours ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
"We The Tiny House People" Documentary
TV producer and Internet-video personality Kirsten Dirksen invites us on her 5-year journey into the tiny homes of people searching for simplicity, self-sufficiency, minimalism and happiness by creating shelter in caves, converted garages, trailers, tool sheds, river boats and former pigeon coops."This extraordinary recalibration of what it means to ...
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3 days, 13 hours ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Tiny House Blog founder: cabins, mortgages, downsizing trend
Kent Griswold doesn't live in a tiny house, but he's become a very well known tiny house geek. Five years ago (May 2007) he launched the Tiny House Blog and it's now the most popular of its kind, but it all began with a lifelong love of ...
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1 week, 2 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Airline exec builds observation tower treehouse as tiny home
Fred Reid has reached the top of his industry- he’s been president of Delta Airlines, CEO of Virgin America, president and CEO of Lufthansa and today he’s president of Flexjet-, but often when he’s not working he escapes to his secret place: a tiny house on stilts ...
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1 week, 6 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Tiny homes: Lloyd Kahn's book on simple shelters < 500 sq ft
Lloyd Kahn learned to publish books working as the shelter editor on Stewart Brand’s The Whole Earth Catalog over 4 decades ago. In his 1973 book Shelter, small buildings were praised as “quick to build, adaptable to used materials (cheap), easy to heat, simple for the inexperienced builder, and ...
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2 weeks, 2 days ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
“We the Tiny House People”: documentary trailer
I stumbled into the Small House Movement by accident of location- my parents live within miles of the tiny house poster boy Jay Shafer and his 89 square foot home-, but within a couple of years I had become a part of it as one of the few, and most ...
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4 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
ThinBike: full-sized foldable bike folds flat in small space
There are foldable bikes that bend in half, hinge around triangles, disassemble for a suitcase or even fold into an upside down umbrella, but designer/entrepreneur Graham Hill (founder of treehugger.com) wanted something simpler and more elegant.Beginning with a high performing (i.e. light) full-sized urban bike, Hill ...
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1 month ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Architect & carpenter craft tiny backyard 120-sq-ft studio
When architect Sarah Deeds wanted to set up a home office, there wasn’t an extra room in the 500-square-foot one-bedroom home she shares with her carpenter partner John McBride, so she looked to the backyard for space. There- tucked into a back corner- she and McBride built the largest ...
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1 month, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
C++ programming pioneer hacks off-grid, DIY, smart home
When Loren Amelang bought land outside of Philo, California in 1973, it was a place to “live like hippies on the weekend”. Years later, his Silicon Valley employer put in florescent lighting and wouldn’t let employees bring in their own lights so Amelang decided to move full-time to his ...
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1 month, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Tiny stone toolshed as timeless mediterranean country home
When Pascual Alberola and his partner went looking for a weekend house near their home in Valencia (Spain), they wanted to avoid the built-up Mediterranean coastline. While exploring a sheltered valley just an hour and a half south of their city, they stumbled upon a plot of land on a ...
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1 month, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
