Bunkie prefab cabin uses joinery & assembly of furniture design by Kirsten Dirksen on July 22, 2019 Furniture designer Evan Bare wanted to create a cabin that could be built like a piece of furniture. Architectural designers …
Swedish-inspired backyard cottage works as secluded oasis home by Kirsten Dirksen on May 19, 2019 Su Pang loves travel and traditional Swedish cottages. In 2013, she had a little-used 5000-square-foot backyard subject to relaxed building …
Transformer furniture hidden on ceiling deploys by command by Kirsten Dirksen on April 28, 2019 Having worked on the Tesla Model Y and the Apple Watch, when Sankarshan Murthy wanted to add more space to …
Can a family of 5 find home where they park their campervan? by Kirsten Dirksen on April 14, 2019 When Dan and Marlene started travelling with their Tab teardrop trailer they never expected it to become a full-time lifestyle …
Can backyard tiny homes solve CA’s affordable housing need? by Kirsten Dirksen on March 24, 2019 Looking for a local solution to the California housing shortage, Clovis city planners bypassed legalizing tiny houses on wheels for …
Small prefab tests space-era rotating rooms: sleep-cook-bath by Kirsten Dirksen on March 17, 2019 To make a small home more efficient, designer Luigi Colani put a 6-round-meter cylinder in the living room so with …
Forsaken Joshua Tree hut becomes off-grid folly for stargazing by Kirsten Dirksen on February 24, 2019 When Malek Alqadi and Hillary Flur first drove down the dirt road in Joshua Tree and saw the collapsing homestead …
Small island getaway seeks old Greek simplicity: “meden agan” by Kirsten Dirksen on December 30, 2018 On the boat from Athens to a camping trip on Kea Island, Takis Yalelis began sketching a house that explored …
Intersection of rurex & philosophy: visiting Heidegger’s hut by Kirsten Dirksen on December 2, 2018 Can a place change how we think? “At most a city-dweller gets ‘stimulated’ by a so-called ‘stay in the country’, …
Young vets avoid student debt going vanlife in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on October 24, 2018 Paris and Lovell Lee were used to small space living while in the Navy so when they started college in …
