Nobody wanted underground fixer-upper. He turned it into sun-warmed gem by Kirsten Dirksen on November 8, 2026 Adrian and Jeff Young had been carrying around a photo of a dream house for years: an arched, glass-sided mountain …
Mocked for his cabin, welder builds 160-foot Castle alone, has last laugh by Kirsten Dirksen on November 1, 2026 Jim Bishop never finished high school and never had any formal training in building, yet he spent more than 50 …
Three-sided greenhouse house masters heat & cold in tranquil Nordic village by Kirsten Dirksen on October 25, 2026 Svend Buchardt is a light lover. Light, he says, makes him breathe, eat, digest, sleep, and live better. So he …
Couple’s indoor-outdoor natural life: underground pipes, double stove & cork by Kirsten Dirksen on October 11, 2026 A Swedish-Spanish couple turned an inefficient 1980s stucco house in a small Costa Blanca town into a bio-home that heats, …
He turned fixer-upper hidden in French village maze into foot-only oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2026 After starting a family, Olivier Neveu left city life and bought an old townhouse hidden in his historic village’s maze …
Couple builds pocket homestead with wood-fed Amish radiant floor by Kirsten Dirksen on September 27, 2026 When Danielle Williams and her partner Hassan Hall moved to Missouri in 2012, they needed shelter before winter hit, and …
2nd act, fresh start: couple builds 4-generation mud-&-clay family village by Kirsten Dirksen on September 24, 2026 Athena Steen learned to build with earth as a kid on her mother’s pueblo in New Mexico, where if someone …
Steelworker quits at 50, builds $50K cordwood home lit by colorful bottles by Kirsten Dirksen on September 13, 2026 At 50, Jason Fine walked away from his union boilermaker job and cashed out his retirement to buy 29 acres …
He dreamed of self-feeding solar house. So he built A-frame greenhouse home by Kirsten Dirksen on September 6, 2026 Twenty years ago, Anders Solvarm put up a greenhouse just to keep the rain off a log home he was …
After NYC, she moved to village dug underground: fixing 4 caves in 15 years by Kirsten Dirksen on August 30, 2026 After growing up in Manhattan, Thea Carini landed in Bourré – a tiny French stone-mining town with dozens of homes …
