Backyard teahouses for meditation, guest cottage, homeoffice by Kirsten Dirksen on February 17, 2014 When a Silicon Valley executive asked architect Robert Swatt (Swatt Miers Architects) to design teahouses for his backyard, Swatt wasn’t sure where …
Livework family of 3: small home-studio DIY revamp by Kirsten Dirksen on February 3, 2014 Architect Sarah Deeds used to live alone with her cat in a 700 square foot attic floor apartment. To create …
Teleworking pods: dedicated backyard office in Medieval town by Kirsten Dirksen on April 7, 2013 Berkhamsted is small English village where William became the Conqueror, Geoffrey Chaucer worked and Graham Greene was born. Today it’s …
Frodo’s simple living: Hobbit Holes, tiny homes, shedworking by Kirsten Dirksen on June 4, 2012 “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends …
Architect & carpenter craft tiny backyard 120-sq-ft studio by Kirsten Dirksen on April 9, 2012 When architect Sarah Deeds wanted to set up a home office, there wasn’t an extra room in the 500-square-foot one-bedroom …
Good old city-fence redwood becomes tiny cottage studio by Kirsten Dirksen on February 9, 2012 When San Francisco artist and builder Jay Nelson sees someone tearing down a redwood fence in his neighborhood he asks …
