Simple living at sculptor’s homestead: 50 years building Utopia by Kirsten Dirksen on December 5, 2022 Bruce Johnson, and his wife Margie, moved to California’s remote North Coast in 1973 to rebuild the historic Fort Ross …
Danish maker turns waste into art, furniture, vehicles & more by Kirsten Dirksen on March 11, 2018 Thomas Dambo routes his daily bike commute past neighborhood dumpsters to find materials for his builds. In the past several …
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 …
A front-yard galleon treehouse Jack Sparrow would appreciate by Kirsten Dirksen on July 15, 2013 When carpenter Jay Duffy began building a treehouse in his fiance’s front yard for her two sons, he used discarded …
Brooklyn crafted, impermanent house gets wiser with owner by Kirsten Dirksen on March 11, 2013 Tim Seggerman bought his Brooklyn home (Crown Heights) at an auction in 1987 for $140,000 (his down payment of $14,000 …