From Gotham to isolated, code & debt-free West Texas estate by Kirsten Dirksen on November 17, 2014 Seven years ago John Wells sold his heavily-mortgaged home in upstate New York and bought 40 acres in West Texas …
Nevada desert simple living in ’66 Airstream Overlander by Kirsten Dirksen on November 10, 2014 Bruce Czopek first moved to the Nevada desert several decades ago to take a faux finishing job. When the recent …
Tiny houses’ polymath: tinker, lyrist, carpenter, cartoonist by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2014 Derek Diedricksen has loved tiny homes since he read Lester Walker’s “Tiny Tiny Houses” as a ten year old. It …
Survivalist tiny dorms at Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin arq school by Kirsten Dirksen on October 27, 2014 Since Frank Lloyd Wright began building Taliesin West– his winter home and school in the desert-, students have been living …
Containertopia: cargo container tinyhome town on Oakland lot by Kirsten Dirksen on October 20, 2014 Luke Iseman and Heather Stewart were tired of paying San Francisco rents and had always dreamt of living in a …
Origami-style cardboard furniture for dorms, urban nomads by Kirsten Dirksen on October 13, 2014 As an undergraduate at Yale, Zach Rothholz began to experiment with a corrugated material called triple ply: “like regular cardboard, …
Earthships: self-sustaining homes for post-apocalyptic land? by Kirsten Dirksen on October 6, 2014 On the desert mesa of New Mexico, miles from the nearest town of Taos (pop. 5,700), Star-Wars-like shelters rise from …
Extreme weather houseboat floats in Silicon Valley backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2014 A couple of years ago, Chris Robinson was a former Facebook and PayPal art director with no boat-building (nor sailing) …
Commuter builds water bike to pedal across San Francisco Bay by Kirsten Dirksen on September 22, 2014 When Judah Schiller heard that the bike lane on the Bay Bridge (connecting San Francisco and Oakland) was going to …
Tiny Texas Houses’ “Willy Wonka” on doing magic reusing wood by Kirsten Dirksen on September 16, 2014 Brad “Darby” Kittel came to Texas living on a converted school bus. He had planned to write the Great American …
