How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum by Kirsten Dirksen on April 18, 2020 “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. …
How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders by Kirsten Dirksen on April 9, 2020 Resilience: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” For some, preparing for the unexpected has been a way of …
Cave & “Moulin” home restoration looks like a Rembrandt painting by Kirsten Dirksen on March 1, 2020 Sandrine Lafage was looking to buy a cave home when she stumbled up on a historic windmill, cave and barn …
A bedroom to skate, climb & sleep-on-trees in tiny Paris flat by Kirsten Dirksen on January 19, 2020 Elisio Tiúba grew up surfing and playing outdoors in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil so when he began to raise his sons …
Habitat 67 stacks 354 prefabs that get urban/suburban balance by Kirsten Dirksen on January 12, 2020 Habitat 67 was a 1960s experiment in dense, downtown housing that tried to combine the best of urban and suburban …
Old West train depot revives as home near Roosevelt’s Medora by Kirsten Dirksen on December 31, 2019 Fargo-residents Nykky and Josh were visiting a friend in Luverne, North Dakota when they saw a house for sale for …
Kristie Wolfe turns 1950s fire lookout into offgrid shelter by Kirsten Dirksen on November 17, 2019 When Kristie Wolfe saw a fire lookout tower advertised for sale on private land, she knew she had found her …
Rundown garret becomes a tiny penthouse perching over Lisbon by Kirsten Dirksen on October 28, 2019 João Gameiro took a dark, rundown flat in an early 19th century Lisbon building and used traditional craftsmanship to open …
Tiny diesel tank becomes time-capsule-style personal shelter by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2019 Martín Marro wanted to “rescue the memory” of his childhood home: a converted 1940s gas station in Luque, Argentina. So …
Joy of rebuilding a settler cabin log-by-log on MN homestead by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2019 John spent 15 years building his home and all the furniture, mostly with lumber from the woods of his Long …