6 friends, 6 units, 1 lot: each owns their dream home for $800/month by Kirsten Dirksen on August 10, 2025 In a town where average rent is $1,400, six single adults became homeowners for just $10,000 each—and now pay $800/month …
Dream Domestead uses water & geothermal for all-season paradise in Spain by Kirsten Dirksen on August 3, 2025 This off-grid homestead includes two handcrafted natural homes, a geodesic dome greenhouse built from local stone, a hand-dug stream, two …
She got ancient hermit tower, cave & chapel for the price of a car by Kirsten Dirksen on July 27, 2025 In the wild, stony hills of the Mani Peninsula—once home to pirates, hermits, and feuding clans— Elena Zervoudakis stumbled upon …
Family’s self-built greenhouse home in farm country has indoor orchard 🌳 by Kirsten Dirksen on July 20, 2025 When Roja Brimalm and Johan Holmstedt set out to build a home for their family on the windswept plains of …
NYC microstudio transforms on-demand with wall-embedded furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on July 13, 2025 When Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox (“Orange Is the New Black”) bought her first home—a 634-square-foot studio in Manhattan she first …
Expandable home with loop-filtered water is indoor/outdoor game changer by Kirsten Dirksen on July 7, 2025 Experiencing MO.CA gives one the feeling of entering a new type of experiencing mobile living: it’s flexible, indoor/outdoor, and entirely …
Thrifty couple grows all their food in their food-forest backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on June 30, 2025 When Kenta learned that 90% of Hawai‘i’s food—and nearly all of its carbohydrates—are imported, he began to rethink how he …
Couple encases brick farm inside greenhouse for indoor/outdoor all year by Kirsten Dirksen on June 22, 2025 On the windswept island of Mors in Northern Denmark, Anna Marie Madsen and Rasmus Møller have reimagined rural living by …
Building budget homestead little by little in worthless, remote (is)land by Kirsten Dirksen on June 16, 2025 Thirty years ago, Vici stood on the rocky hillsides of Serifos and imagined a home made of stone — like …
Turning dark & narrow apartment into luminous, plant-filled home oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on June 5, 2025 In the heart of Barcelona’s Eixample district, a long, narrow apartment—typical of the city’s early 20th-century “shotgun” floor plans—has been …
