Nevada desert simple living in ’66 Airstream Overlander by Kirsten Dirksen on November 10, 2014 Bruce Czopek first moved to the Nevada desert several decades ago to take a faux finishing job. When the recent …
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 …
Survivalist tiny dorms at Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin arq school by Kirsten Dirksen on October 27, 2014 Since Frank Lloyd Wright began building Taliesin West– his winter home and school in the desert-, students have been living …
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 …
Extreme weather houseboat floats in Silicon Valley backyard by Kirsten Dirksen on September 29, 2014 A couple of years ago, Chris Robinson was a former Facebook and PayPal art director with no boat-building (nor sailing) …
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 …
Tall law student, tiny house: bachelor builds dorm on wheels by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2014 When Joel Fleck moved home to after college, he wanted his own place, but he didn’t want to pay the …
Marfa’s restored trailers from the nomadic recreation heyday by Kirsten Dirksen on August 20, 2014 Two hundred miles southeast of El Paso and 800 miles west from Austin, Marfa may be isolated from major cultural centers, …
Westfalia campervan as minimal nomadic home in Santa Barbara by Kirsten Dirksen on August 11, 2014 Last year Sam Jacquette was paying over $1100 a month in rent and working a job he didn’t enjoy to …
