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 …
Tiny house pioneer Jay Shafer: thinking beyond trailer parks by Kirsten Dirksen on November 18, 2013 In 1997, Jay Shafer built a tiny house on wheels that shunned trailer park conventions and attempted to mimic a …
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 …
Debt/car-free tiny house couple: simple living + resilience by Kirsten Dirksen on November 3, 2013 Seven years ago, Tammy Strobel was unhappy, but she wasn’t ready to make changes to her life. “I was in …
Oregon “teens + dad” team build barge home and workshop by Kirsten Dirksen on October 21, 2013 Eddie Ebel wanted his family to be self-sufficient so he began designing a home and teaching his kids to build …
Micro-homesteading in WA with 10K microhome in friends’ yard by Kirsten Dirksen on October 12, 2013 Dee Williams used to live in a 2,000-square-foot, 3-bedroom home. Then she traveled to Guatelama (to help build a schoolhouse) …
Portable home delivered as furniture, tailored as smartphone by Kirsten Dirksen on October 1, 2013 Architect Camino Alonso wanted to create a small, portable, prefab home, but she didn’t want it to feel like a …
Debt-free boat tiny home for family of 3 on Portland island by Kirsten Dirksen on September 21, 2013 Jane and Tony had lived on a sailboat when they were child-free and loved it, so when their landlord raised …
School bus renovated as bachelor’s off-grid tiny home by Kirsten Dirksen on September 9, 2013 Max spent his first ten years living in a tiny log cabin and falling for small spaces. He’s spent the …
America’s 1st tiny house hotel had to be in dense Portland by Kirsten Dirksen on September 1, 2013 Deb Delman and Kol Peterson love tiny homes: she’s spent the past couple decades living in a converted garage, a …
