Tiny matchbox apartment hides closet & bathtub in drawers by Kirsten Dirksen on July 16, 2012 Micro-apartments are common in historically dense cities like Paris and Barcelona, but architect Valentina Maini wasn’t interested in typical small …
Heating Seattle backyard shed with soda cans as solar panels by Kirsten Dirksen on July 9, 2012 Peter Rowan left his job as a “corporate weenie” in 2010 to live a life with less stuff and fewer …
Off-grid float cabin: retirement tiny home in BC wilderness by Kirsten Dirksen on July 2, 2012 Margy and Wayne Lutz were camping in Coastal British Columbia when they discovered their dream home: the float cabins of …
Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland by Kirsten Dirksen on June 25, 2012 The land in West Oakland where Eric Maundu is trying to farm is covered with freeways, roads, light rail and …
Zen apartment has shower roof opening, moving paper-walls by Kirsten Dirksen on June 18, 2012 Rui Miguel and Sonia Lopez both work in confined office buildings so they wanted a home with plenty of outdoor …
A resistant, smooth material for better bike frames: hardwood by Kirsten Dirksen on June 11, 2012 Ken Wheeler is a fan of any type of wooden craft. He’s owned wooden sailboats, built wooden camping kitchens as …
Frodo’s simple living: Hobbit Holes, tiny homes, shedworking by Kirsten Dirksen on June 4, 2012 “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
Tetris-like stacking + LEGOish shelves: modular minimalism by Kirsten Dirksen on May 27, 2012 If our future homes are urban, compact, and temporary, than the furniture of the future will look something like BrickBox. …
Making longboards, furniture, sculptures from wood scraps by Kirsten Dirksen on May 22, 2012 Scott Constable is a craftsman who designs utilitarian objects like furniture skateboards and handcrafted homes to the more esoteric, such …
Artist couple’s 3-acre homestead on unincorporated Norcal coast by Kirsten Dirksen on May 21, 2012 There once was a Wow House- a small backyard studio that Scott Constable built for his and his wife Ene …
