Berkeley’s backyard tiny house helps with income, landscape by Kirsten Dirksen on October 8, 2012 Karen Chapple is a city planning professor so she knows all about the benefits of backyard cottages as urban infill …
Foldable cardboard stools & stretchable table maximize space by faircompanies on October 1, 2012 When Susana remodeled her small apartment she wanted a large space for entertaining, but she didn’t want a lofted bedroom …
First they remodeled a shotgun shack, then revamped it for $700 by Kirsten Dirksen on September 30, 2012 Three years ago, the Jordan family left their 2,500-square-foot, 4-bedroom home to move into a 1-bedroom 320-square-foot prefab. They also …
Skyfarming prototype: 8-story, climbable vertical garden by Kirsten Dirksen on September 24, 2012 Architect Juli Capella was tasked- by the city of Barcelona- to design a vertical garden to cover a nearly 70-foot-high …
Family of 3 amplifies flat with a see-thru mezzanine core by Kirsten Dirksen on September 17, 2012 When Miguel Ángel Borrás and Elodie Grammont bought their apartment in Barcelona’s Eixample district, it was divided into small rooms, …
Created legendary Napa restaurant, then regenerated a farm by Kirsten Dirksen on September 10, 2012 In 1978 Don and Sally Schmitt opened a restaurant in a former french laundry in a tiny Napa Valley town. …
Non-possession: seeking intense simplicity and the good life by Kirsten Dirksen on September 3, 2012 Peter Lawrence has few possessions. He can fit nearly everything he owns in a suitcase. He is nearly camping in …
Salvaged boat trailer as mobile home-office: $300 + labor by Kirsten Dirksen on August 30, 2012 Jenine Alexander likes to built tiny structures on wheels. And she loves to find her building materials in the dump …
NYC beekeeping: embracing a once banned activity by Kirsten Dirksen on August 27, 2012 Because he lives in a 21 story building and “bees don’t like high rises too much” (too windy), Guillermo Fernandez …
Fully-customized, modular solar house is CNC cut prefab by Kirsten Dirksen on August 19, 2012 Solar House 2.0, erected this year on Barcelona’s waterfront, uses time-tested passive solar techniques (like south-facing windows to let in …
