Solo girl terraforms lava field with off-grid oasis & rugged tiny home 🏝️ by Kirsten Dirksen on January 21, 2024 15 years ago, Jade Chen left New York City to settle on a remote lava field far from any store …
House was gloomy. Now it’s dream modern home that friends crash in by Kirsten Dirksen on January 14, 2024 The home with “the circus tent roof” sat on the market for 6 years before Isabella and Diogo visited its …
Building Bunker Villa on a budget using Quonset Hut structure by Kirsten Dirksen on January 7, 2024 Fifteen years ago David had friends building underground shelters, but he didn’t understand the attraction, until an ice storm took …
Enchanted Castle hides underground water-maze in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on January 1, 2024 Within San Francisco city limits, there’s a Norman-style castle with a 4-story turret that few residents have heard of. Built …
Modern home hideout sits on forsaken volcano like Star Wars rebel ship by Kirsten Dirksen on December 24, 2023 Perched on a slope of what is arguably the tallest mountain in the world (Mauna Kea), and accessible only by …
Giant Earthship vs wildfire: Did good prepping save this ecovillage? by Kirsten Dirksen on December 17, 2023 Dan Schultz spent 15 years building his off-grid self-sufficient utopia with whimsical homes and trees and gardens that produced enough …
No bank loaned them money. They built dream Hobbit Home themselves by Kirsten Dirksen on December 10, 2023 When no bank would give them a loan for an earth-sheltered dome home, Steve Travis and Jeff Ingram began to …
Young architect’s Fairy-Tale home inspired by Nature’s spirals: awe inside 🐚 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 4, 2023 The Bloomhouse seems to erupt or grow from the ground, leaving no straight lines. It was actually hand-sculpted over the …
Off-grid Hawaii dream: couple builds budget home & thriving food forest by Kirsten Dirksen on November 29, 2023 Matt Holton and Cristina Pineda were living on Maui where the average home price is a million dollars when they …
He built $2K remote dome cabin amid freezing Siberian wilderness (step-by-step) by Kirsten Dirksen on November 19, 2023 Bio-architect and handyman Alosha Lynov has experienced his own Tolstoyan Odyssey: interested in natural building, he taught himself to design …
