Shop-in-a-box: container workshop deploys hardware anywhere by Kirsten Dirksen on September 16, 2013 Luke Iseman is a creator: he’s invented automated gardening assistants, built a bike taxi company and designed kilns for Kenyan …
School bus renovated as bachelor’s off-grid tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on September 9, 2013 Max spent his first ten years living in a tiny log cabin and falling for small spaces. He’s spent the …
America’s 1st tiny house hotel had to be in dense Portland by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2013 Deb Delman and Kol Peterson love tiny homes: she’s spent the past couple decades living in a converted garage, a …
DIY-crafted Seattle micro apartment: 8 spaces in 182 sq ft by Kirsten Dirksen on August 26, 2013 Ten years ago Steve Sauer was looking for a place to keep some stuff. When he found a subterranean storage …
Brick & mortar frontier town bank becomes NorCal downtown home by Kirsten Dirksen on August 18, 2013 When Bert Crews was looking for a home in the tiny frontier-style town of Tomales, California, it just happened to …
Family compound of streetcars, cob huts, treehouse & barrel by Kirsten Dirksen on August 13, 2013 Over a decade ago, Claudine Désirée was raising 3 young boys alone in a one bedroom home built from old …
Colorful timber cabin: walls/windows hinge-open in 3 sides by Kirsten Dirksen on July 27, 2013 In a move to recover an abandoned corner of Dartford Central Park (Kent, UK), architects from Studio Weave created a …
Using solar, cob, hemp-crete in stunning off-grid compound by Kirsten Dirksen on July 20, 2013 In 1980 a group of architect friends who wanted to “change the way people build houses and communities” founded a …
A front-yard galleon treehouse Jack Sparrow would appreciate by Kirsten Dirksen on July 15, 2013 When carpenter Jay Duffy began building a treehouse in his fiance’s front yard for her two sons, he used discarded …
Shipping container family home: building blocks in Redwoods by Kirsten Dirksen on July 7, 2013 Kam Kasravi and Connie Dewitt wanted a modern cabin that wouldn’t disrupt the Redwoods on their property. First they considered …