Turning dark & narrow apartment into luminous, plant-filled home oasis by Kirsten Dirksen on June 5, 2025 In the heart of Barcelona’s Eixample district, a long, narrow apartment—typical of the city’s early 20th-century “shotgun” floor plans—has been …
Life-Changing Homes for healing, personal growth & starting over 👉🌱 by Kirsten Dirksen on June 1, 2025 Life-Changing Homes is a book for people in transition—those starting over, downsizing, dreaming bigger, or simply rethinking what “home” can …
He excavated earth-sheltered home of dry stone into rugged seacliff by Kirsten Dirksen on May 25, 2025 Dug into the mountainside and built with the very earth excavated to make space for it, Xerolithi House is a …
Family-style ecovillage is co-housing at heart of huge food-forest 🥗 by Kirsten Dirksen on May 19, 2025 In the lush rainforest of Hawai’i’s Big Island, a small group of people has created a way of life that’s …
Tetris founder’s family village is collapse-proof, remote offgrid-topia by Kirsten Dirksen on May 11, 2025 High in the hills of Hawaii’s Big Island, Henk Rogers—best known for bringing Tetris to the world—is taking on a …
91-year-old American granny revives ghost village, brings lost paradise back to life by Kirsten Dirksen on May 4, 2025 When Rebecca left her mountain village on the Mani (one of the three peninsulas in Greece’s southern Peloponnese) in 1951, …
He escaped Iron Curtain on a flying go-kart. Now lives in 1-person Ghost Town by Kirsten Dirksen on April 27, 2025 Ivo Zdarsky lives alone in Lucin, Utah—a ghost town so remote it barely registers on most maps. His home is …
Hidden bunker-like gem is actually affordable, underground family home by Kirsten Dirksen on April 20, 2025 Just beyond the olive groves of Sikamino, Greece, a jagged seam in the earth quietly declares its presence. In a …
Friends pool money to build Scandinavian ecovillage in self-owned factory by Kirsten Dirksen on April 14, 2025 In the small Danish town of Ebeltoft, 160 friends did something most people only dream about: they pooled their money …
How family of 7 lived simply in tiny stone home by the sea in Greece by Kirsten Dirksen on April 8, 2025 On the quiet Greek island of Serifos, in the once-bustling mining village of Megalo Livadi, sits a small whitewashed house …
