Converted garage as mid-century modern NorCal cottage house by Kirsten Dirksen on January 13, 2014 When Craige and Jennifer Walters bought a home 60 miles north of San Francisco, they expected a lot of overnight …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip documentary by Kirsten Dirksen on January 5, 2014 One of the most elusive goals in life is determining just what you need to live. As co-founders of a …
Airstream-inspired retro RV as affordable backyard tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on December 30, 2013 Nadise wanted to live in a small and affordable home, but she doesn’t like apartments (she grew up on the …
Summer of (family) love: tiny home VW-roadtrip doc trailer by Kirsten Dirksen on December 23, 2013 Last summer, life handed us a roadtrip: we had tiny homes to film along the West Coast and while we …
Salvaged tiny homestudios: tin can sides, paper bag wallpaper by Kirsten Dirksen on December 16, 2013 On a standard-sized lot in Portland, Oregon, self-taught builders Jeff and Brad built two tiny cottages using mostly salvaged materials. …
Future soda? micro-fermented, probiotic, water kefir brew by Kirsten Dirksen on December 9, 2013 It’s a 3000-year-old soda that is popular again. Water kefir is a natural ferment that was likely first discovered by …
Fully-plumbed DIY treehouses & tree-cabin in Oregon “treesort” by Kirsten Dirksen on December 2, 2013 When Phil moved to Oregon decades ago to be near his children, he began dreaming about building a treehouse or …
Off-grid, handcrafted life on Oregon farm & workshop by Kirsten Dirksen on November 25, 2013 Brian is an “obsessive craftsman” who believes he can build most anything in his life. On his Oregon farm he …
Tiny house pioneer Jay Shafer: thinking beyond trailer parks by Kirsten Dirksen on November 18, 2013 In 1997, Jay Shafer built a tiny house on wheels that shunned trailer park conventions and attempted to mimic a …
Zen forest house: handcrafted, 11K, small home in Oregon by Kirsten Dirksen on November 11, 2013 Brian Schulz wanted to see “how small of a house I could make feel big”. Inspired by the traditional Japanese …
