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 …
A tiny Bauhaus School/home on-wheels to debate future of housing by Kirsten Dirksen on May 12, 2019 To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus (May 2019), a Berlin design group has built a miniature model of …
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 …
Retired engineer builds transforming, offgrid, stealth campervan by Kirsten Dirksen on March 10, 2019 With two years and $20,000, retired winery engineer Dave Orton turned a Ford Transit into a completely off-grid van home …
On designing a stackable, bioclimatic shipping container home by Kirsten Dirksen on March 4, 2019 Motivated by her love of mobile homes and bioclimatic design, as well as the surplus of shipping containers at Athens …
Coder finds DIY analogic solutions to improve SF small loft by Kirsten Dirksen on January 6, 2019 Never much of a tinkerer, when Max Heinritz moved into the biggest San Francisco apartment he could afford- a 678-square-foot …
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 …