Oldest US mall blends old/modern with 225-sq-ft micro lofts by Kirsten Dirksen on January 26, 2015 The Providence Arcade is nearly 2 centuries old, but when Evan Granoff bought it was considered one of the city’s …
Access to tools to help craft your self reliance by Kirsten Dirksen on January 18, 2015 “We are as gods and might as well get good at it,” wrote Stewart Brand in the first Whole Earth …
Eichler homes rediscovery: when suburban was modern-livable by Kirsten Dirksen on January 12, 2015 Real estate developer Joseph Eichler brought high-end modern design to affordable tract homes. In the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s his …
Studies architecture, decides to restore Airstreams instead by Kirsten Dirksen on January 5, 2015 When a 26-year-old Matthew Hofman launched his own architecture firm, he bought a 1978 Airstream trailer and redesigned it to …
Iowa couple pick CA landscape with tiny homeoffice on wheels by Kirsten Dirksen on December 29, 2014 Alek Lisefski was tired of paying rent in high-end towns like Santa Monica and Boulder so he decided to build …
Building your own Hawaii minimal house for a vacation’s cost by Kirsten Dirksen on December 22, 2014 Kristie Wolfe spent $5000 to build herself a tiny home on wheels in her hometown of Pocatello, Idaho. It started …
Dune Shacks: taste of Cape Cods’ floating, well-aged homes by Kirsten Dirksen on December 15, 2014 They are 19 worn-down and well-aged shacks that sit at the edge of the continent. They’re surrounded by sand- Thoreau …
Madrid accordion home: transforming walls get 5 rooms from 1 by Kirsten Dirksen on November 24, 2014 Yolanda Pila wanted to convert her grandparents’ forties-style tiny home on the outskirts of Madrid into something that would fit …
From Gotham to isolated, code & debt-free West Texas estate by Kirsten Dirksen on November 17, 2014 Seven years ago John Wells sold his heavily-mortgaged home in upstate New York and bought 40 acres in West Texas …
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 …