Livework family of 3: small home-studio DIY revamp by Kirsten Dirksen on February 3, 2014 Architect Sarah Deeds used to live alone with her cat in a 700 square foot attic floor apartment. To create …
Colorado portable tiny house + Airstream-ish portable office by Kirsten Dirksen on January 27, 2014 Ann Holley wanted to create an off-grid, transportable tiny house that would be technically an RV, but with an aesthetic …
Wearable neuroheadsets: mentally-operated digital assistant? by Kirsten Dirksen on January 20, 2014 Mind-controlled computing is a new field. So new, that in 2009, Emotiv Systems open-sourced their brainwave-reading headset to developers and …
Converted garage as mid-century modern NorCal cottage house by Kirsten Dirksen on January 13, 2014 When Craige and Jennifer Walters bought a home 60 miles north of San Francisco, they expected a lot of overnight …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip documentary by Kirsten Dirksen on January 5, 2014 One of the most elusive goals in life is determining just what you need to live. As co-founders of a …
Airstream-inspired retro RV as affordable backyard tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on December 30, 2013 Nadise wanted to live in a small and affordable home, but she doesn’t like apartments (she grew up on the …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip doc trailer by Kirsten Dirksen on December 23, 2013 Last summer, life handed us a roadtrip: we had tiny homes to film along the West Coast and while we …
Salvaged tiny homestudios: tin can sides, paper bag wallpaper by Kirsten Dirksen on December 16, 2013 On a standard-sized lot in Portland, Oregon, self-taught builders Jeff and Brad built two tiny cottages using mostly salvaged materials. …
Future soda? micro-fermented, probiotic, water kefir brew by Kirsten Dirksen on December 9, 2013 It’s a 3000-year-old soda that is popular again. Water kefir is a natural ferment that was likely first discovered by …
Fully-plumbed DIY treehouses & tree-cabin in Oregon “treesort” by Kirsten Dirksen on December 2, 2013 When Phil moved to Oregon decades ago to be near his children, he began dreaming about building a treehouse or …