West Texas ghost town experimental construction & revival by Kirsten Dirksen on April 27, 2015 A century ago, Terlingua, Texas was a bustling mining town (by 1922 it was supplying the nation with 40% of …
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 …
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 …
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 …
P2P Brooklyn: from apartment to shared flat, restaurant/club by Kirsten Dirksen on September 8, 2014 Adam Finkelman and Evan Garfield were veteran roommates of the New York City rental scene so when they discovered a …
Art of living in a Dordogne’s tiny mud home with living roof by Kirsten Dirksen on May 15, 2014 In a small forest in France’s Dordogne, self-taught carpenter Menthé built his home with a living roof and mud walls, …
French carpenters craft off-grid hamlet of tiny dwellings by Kirsten Dirksen on May 12, 2014 A few years ago, a group of carpenters (and friends) began building tiny homes on a property in southwest France …
Converted toolshed as uncluttered tiny home on Oregon farm by Kirsten Dirksen on February 20, 2014 Instead of building a big house on his Oregon farm, Brian Schulz has built, or renovated 5, tiny structures (see …
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 …
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 …