“Live from California” legend shares SuperAging secret, DIY-building tips 🛹 by Kirsten Dirksen on November 10, 2024 At 89, Lloyd Kahn has been building his own homes for over six decades, crafting spaces that include a few …
Building ecovillage of storm-proof homes made of bone-like biomaterial by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2024 On a rural property on the slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, Morgan Bierschenk and his team have been refining …
Turns warehouse into dream home with underground living + Roman bath 🏛️ by Kirsten Dirksen on October 27, 2024 Ignacio Morente bought a dilapidated warehouse and, with help from family and friends, he built his dream home, complete with …
Tenant couldn’t afford city. Their alleyway studio made him stay by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2024 More and more families living in urban and suburban setups across California are slowly turning their single-family homes into lots …
What to do with decommissioned oil tank? Build remote Scandinavian home by Kirsten Dirksen on October 14, 2024 In the tiny Scandinavian island of Skrova north of the Arctic Circle, Martin Otterbeck and Agnete Brun bought an old, …
Built off-grid homestead. Then became Fermented Foods’ go-to expert by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2024 When Sandor Katz moved to rural Tennessee from Manhattan after a health crisis, he had no experience with gardening nor …
Turns forsaken WW2 bunker into perfect Arctic underground cabin by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2024 After discovering an abandoned World War II bunker while on a hike in northern Norway, Henrik Lande Andersen spent two …
Friends couldn’t afford rent. Pooled together to buy homes instead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 22, 2024 Phil Levin and Kristen Berman wanted to live near their friends, but they didn’t want to sacrifice their privacy, so …
He quit his job to build dream cliffside hamlet in Appalachia by Kirsten Dirksen on September 15, 2024 While on a bike ride outside of Asheville (North Carolina), Doug and Jen Mielke fell in love with an overgrown …
How entire villages lived in just 1 building in remote Far North by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2024 For thousands of years survival in Norway’s countryside, where farms were miles from each other, meant complete self-sufficiency. Farmsteads were …