DIY trashion furniture kit: upcycle trash into lampshades by Kirsten Dirksen on December 13, 2012 Ryan Frank is South African born designer who learned about re-using materials from a childhood in a country where recycling …
Budget modern micro-apartment uses space-era warped walls by Kirsten Dirksen on December 10, 2012 When Carlos Ortega returned to Mexico after 8 years in Paris, he found “things were starting to happen” in the …
6 rooms into 1: morphing apartment packs 1100 sq ft into 420 by Kirsten Dirksen on December 3, 2012 When we first met Graham Hill- founder of treehugger.com- in 2010, he had just bought two tiny apartments in a …
Brazilian slow shoes: handmade, hand-dyed, reused-tire soles by Kirsten Dirksen on November 29, 2012 Juliano Lima believed in the skills of his countrymen, but he knew that few Brazilian crafters had the resources to …
Home-within-home: $2K treehouse, tiny hut in Brooklyn loft by Kirsten Dirksen on November 25, 2012 Architect Terri Chiao knew she couldn’t afford the rent on a 750-square-foot Brooklyn loft without a roommate, but she didn’t …
NYC Swiss Army knife apartment’s walls open, fold & slide by Kirsten Dirksen on November 16, 2012 Rosa and Robert Garneau’s Chelsea apartment is small- just 550 square feet of usable space with a bedroom just 8 …
Biointensive mini-farming: grow more food in less space by Kirsten Dirksen on November 13, 2012 With just one-tenth of an acre of space, it’s possible to grow your entire diet, claims a Northern California gardening …
325-square-foot cave apartment has DIY & upcycled furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on November 5, 2012 Monica Potvin and Markel Otaola bought the 30-square-meter (323-square-foot usable space) apartment in Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter during their child-free years …
Tiny wattle/daub shed from local dirt in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on October 30, 2012 The tiny wattle-and-daub hut on Ellis Street is likely the only earth-built shelter in downtown San Francisco. Even more impressive, …
Urban forest erupts in San Francisco’s Tenderloin by Kirsten Dirksen on October 28, 2012 The “Tenderloin National Forest” is likely one of the world’s smallest “forests”; it’s just 23 feet wide by 136 feet …
